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Every now and then, I think it's easier to just wind the skein by hand. Not worth getting out the ball winder.

I am often wrong

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Crochet A Stunning StarFish Blanket With This Sweet Square Pattern: 👉 https://buff.ly/Z03Qebo ✨ ⭐ ✨

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Monday crafting update!

The discord I’m in is having a ‘100 days of spindle spinning’ challenge, and since I found Margo in one of the boxes I got back from storage I thought I would join in! I don’t anticipate getting some done every day, especially since I’m on holiday in may and wasn’t planning on taking a spindle with me, but I want to try and improve my spindle spinning. These grey rolags were some i made myself from random unknown fibre scraps that got thrown in some leftover dye. I was using them as a practice spin when I first got Margo but they were not brilliantly made and have all sorts of staple lengths in there that it made learning quite difficult. But I finished those up the other day and yesterday moved on to these rolags

And it’s much easier spinning from rolags made by someone who knows what they’re doing! These are a blend of merino, silk, bamboo, corriedale and angelina

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I've got so many other things to do but instead of doing them I'm obsessively spinning this giant 200gr rainbow roving I bought last October.

Working on my green trousers? No. Knitting my scrap socks? No. Doing my taxes? Hell no. Dinner? Probably not. D20 and rainbow yarn, nothing else.

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For the knitters out there, do you knit continental or american/british style?

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Plying time!

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Getting an UFO into WIP status again! It's almost a year that I haven't knit on that. I'm knitting an overlay skirt for that green dress and did some blocking to estimate if the length will be good. The yarn is handdyed by me especially for this project and the skirt is based on a tablecloth, Blütenstrahlen from Herbert Niebling. I would like to finish it for a wedding in May.

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Finished the last rolag, from @swords-n-spindles color fade yesterday! And today I could strat the ply process!!

2oly ball + plyed in chain ply = easy 6 ply yarn!

Even though my singles are always horrible overspun, the ply is very soft so far :)

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started my sixth bobbin of this sweater spin today 🎉 i had a custom blend made by world of wool based on the pokémon ivysaur

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Showing off progress on the Penrose blanket!

I love seeing others' progress pics and brag posts (you all make such excellent and beautiful handcrafts!), so why not share mine?

Here's the first photo, when I properly dove into the weaving-in, from my first post:

Only half of the right-hand long edge and the very centre had been woven in at that point.

Then, after three fairly solid days' work weaving in, I reached the first short edge:

And now, a week later (and after another weekend of solid work, amidst high temperatures and humidity I might add):

Ta-daaaaaa! Past the halfway point, and VERY happy with how it's going!

Ideally I'd like to block this after I finish all the weaving in (actually I'd prefer to block first and weave in second). But given that I don't have the space to be able to do that, I'll have to settle for being happy that my tension is so consistent.

I have the week before Christmas off work, so I'm going to try to power through this, AND knit a couple of jumpers for my baby niece, and post everything over to them in Ireland between Christmas and New Years.

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Did I just spend weeks making a fancy cat bed??

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Wet Sheep, ready for drying!

100g of Southdown/Zwartbles/Viscose Tweed came out at 133m, so it is on the chunky side as I had hoped.

Turned out a little less consistent than planned (I ALWAYS manage to start out thinner on both bobbins, even with a sample/plyback tied to the wheel) but eh, it‘ll do!

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Reblog if its ok to spam you with boops

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Progression of mushroom skirt

MUSHROOM SKIRT. MUSHROOM SKIRT.

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Are you a left-handed knitter? Do you knit the normal way or mirrored? Continental or English style?

Let me know by answering the poll. Also feel free to share your experiences in the comments.

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Dyed some fabric for the snail plushie

The yellow one is for the body, the pink for the house/shell. There is also a blue one that still needs to cool down, to have the shell blue/pink striped