I have been working on Althea by Dutch Knitting Design otherwise known as my friend Marleen Van der Vorst. I started this at Woolfest on either the 24th or the 25th of June. Well, that’s not exactly correct as I started this yarn as a different pattern but quickly decided to use Marleen‘s pattern instead. …
I’ve not given a lot of space here to my knitting and crocheting projects of late as other aspects of my life have taken-up a great deal of my time. That doesn’t mean, however, that I’ve not been working on anything. On the contrary, I worked on an afghan right up until the movers packed …
I finally finished washing a very large Jacob fleece that I got a couple of years ago (hangs head knowing that I should have washed them when I got them). It wasn’t that difficult to wash, just that there was a LOT of it. Most of the Jacob sheep that I have “met” have been …
So today I made this totally lush yarn. By accident. Grr…. I guess that accident isn’t totally correct. This yarn was made with the remainder of the leftover fibers that I had from Janel Laidman’s spinning class at Knit Nation. There is (I think) some alpaca and silk, Merino and silk, BLF and silk, and …
One of the managers where I am currently working will quite often greet us worker bees with this odd-for-an-Englishman greeting. Every time he says it it makes me laugh as it sounds so….. odd, coming from his mouth. Just think about it for a little bit…. Not a lot has been going on in my …
Sarah Jane Humke 