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I just can't get enough of this fiber and spinning craze I'm in at the moment. I do admit that it is a craze at the moment because I think about it most of my non-busy time. I love looking at other spinner's yarns that they have made as well as unspun fiber hand dyed by such creative and talented people.

I've had the opportunity to spin different dyer's fibers and have made myself a member in a few fiber clubs.

First club which I'm very excited to be in for a second round is the Pigeonroof Studios fiber club.







Here are a couple of skeins of yarn I've made with PRS fiber.



Pigeonroof Studios March Fiber Club Colourway.
"Cherry Fondant"
116 yards from 4 oz BFL
8 wpi, 3 ply




Pigeonroof Studios
"Depth Charge"
80/20 Merino/Silk 4.2 oz
14 wpi, 306 yards

Sesonal Spinning

Well, this is more wishing this was seasonal...

Beautiful BFL dyed by Poppy Flower Fibers in "Green Thumb" colourway. I've done this in a 2 ply and got 166 yards in a worsted weight from 4 oz of fiber.





Now this one is definitely seasonal...
More BFL in "Cherry Bomb" from Poppy Flower Fibers. I've done this in a 2 ply and got 390 yard in a heavy fingering weight from 4 oz of fiber.

More spinning

These are a couple more braids of fibre I've spun up:


This Merino is another one dyed by Poppy Flower Fibers and named "Harvest Collection #14"

I love the variation of purples in this. This is a 2ply. I haven’t counted the yardage yet but it looks to be a dk-worsted weight.

I've plied the last little bit of singles with some plain white merino.


This one is 4 oz of Merino called "Puff" and dyed by Squoosh.



I 2 plied this one as well.


And I've spun up the last of the singles with some plain white merino.

a needed break and a not needed break

In January I used up some of my Lieu time for a vacation to Ontario. I stayed with my sister and her family in their new house they just finished building. They did a great job on everything. Lovely kitchen, family friendly, and lots of room for company! I can't wait to go back! I really needed that time off as work was getting to me and I was feeling run down. I also had one more week of Vacation time to use up before the end of February and so now I'm on a manditory vacation. - Not needed. I had actually requested to use my time off in January as vacation time but I had too much lieu time built up that they wanted me to use that for it instead. Now they find out that all unused vacation time needs to be used before the end of February so that's what I'm on now. Oh well, I'm getting lots of time in with my wheel and some knitting projects are so close to being done. I'm feeling quite productive.

Here is some fiber I recently spun up:




This is called "Fraises" and it's superwash Merino/Tencel 50/50 from Squoosh Fibers and Yarn. I did a 2ply and ended up with 350 yards.

This one below is 50/50 merino/soysilk dyed by Pigeonroof Studios. I love this one so much! It's called "Morrocco" and I did this in a 2ply and got 288 yards. I had to spin it up as soon as I got it in the mail and didn't get a photo of the fiber unspun.

Three plying

Thank you everyone for your kind comments on my spinning. I love seeing everyone elses yarns too both on their blogs and on Ravelry.








3ply handspun merino fibre from All Spun Up.
6 oz.
284 yards -about a worsted weight.

I really enjoyed spinning this one especially when I plied them together.
So, I'm thinking about making a scarf knitting it lengthwise.

More improvement

This is my favourite one so far. Love Love LOVE!

This is handdyed by Squoosh Fiber and Yarns
4 oz Merino
Colourway is "Choco Love"
324 yards 2ply.

Of Course It's Green!

The Merino top is 4 oz and is dyed by Poppy Flower Fibers. The colour is called "Harvest Collection #16. It's around a fingering weight and I got about 480 yards out of it.

I'm extremely happy with this one!

So, I've made some yarn...

So this is my first go at it. It's BFL in the Natural colour. It was so soft! As you can see, it was all over the place but it taught me a lot.





This is my second attempt with the same fibre. So much better! I was really encouraged with this go at it. In these photos you can see the improvement I've made.


Well, more improvement has taken place since and you'll see it soon!

Now I Can Make It Myself!

I have joined many other knitters who spin their own yarn. I purchased a Lendrum Double Treadle Spinning Wheel in October. I've been admiring the beautiful handspun yarns on other people's blogs and also on Ravelry for a couple of years and knew that it would be something I'd want to try at least. I saved up and got it from a shop just 30 minutes from where I live. So, I've been having lots of fun with it and of course the fibre part of it all is great too... all the colours are just wonderful.





SO MUCH FUN!!!!

Green Vesticle

I was asked back in April by a friend to make a vest for her. So I when she was over one night I brought out all my pattern books and magazines and we went through many of them looking for a suitable vest. She earmarked a few of the ones that she liked but none that really "got" her. So I logged on to Ravelry and we had another browse there.

She settled on the Cambridge Vest.








Pattern: Cambridge Vest by Martin Storey
From: Rowan Classic Alpaca Book 13
Yarn: Rowan Felted Tweed in Herb 3.5 skeins
Needles: 3.5mm & 3.75mm

I've used this yarn before and loved it. I love the different flecks of colour especially the two colours of blue in this colourway along with black and white.