My Life in Sewing and Fashion Design
Here’s the first skeins from the carded roving in this earlier post. It’s a two ply spin and measures up to be 10 – 12 WPI, which places it in the worsted/DK category. Content: 75% Alpaca, Origin: Washington State, from the raw fleece, washed, combed and carded by me. 10% Lincoln Longwool, from prewashed fleece, […]
I made this jumper for my daughter because she liked the design when we were browsing the pattern books at Joann’s last fall. “The Artful Jumper” is what Simplicity named this design on the pattern envelope. It’s style is relaxed and Bohemian, and uses quite a lot of fabric yardage for the handkerchief skirt. My […]
I made the muslin for these pants in May of last year, and I’m happy to say that after a long winter and the onset of a global pandemic this year, I finally completed them. The fabric is from Mood Fabrics. It’s their Rainbow Windows Stretch Cotton Sateen, a really nice light to mid weight […]
Over the past few years, I’ve been knitting my own socks with increasing frequency. Recently I found myself procrastinating my work on a newly cast on sock. I had the stitches cast onto one dpn. I wondered why I wasn’t getting to it, and began to think about what might be holding me back. I […]
I had quite a bit of Suri Alpaca left over from last year’s visit to the farm. I hadn’t washed it because winter arrived, and tasks like washing fleece just don’t seem like the thing to do during the cold weather. It’s best to dry the fleece in the sunlight of the spring and summer, […]
One thing I really love about handspinning is plying. It’s the final phase of traditional handspinning, after the individual strands have been spun, and it’s time to ply them. It’s the process where all the work of spinning literally comes together through the twist of plying to create a finished yarn. For me it’s the […]
It’s a beautiful day here in the Seattle area. We’re having temps in the 80s, which is rare for early May. It may even be record warm temps. I don’t know where to begin as far as explaining my adjustment to the quarantine lifestyle. The fact is, I’ve been living this way for a long […]
I just wrote up a pattern that I’m offering as a free download on Ravelry. As the title says, it’s a Bath Mitt. I have a lot of spare Lion Brand Kitchen Cotton that I bought on sale a few years back, and I decided to start making things with it. I began by making […]
I had a lot more spinning to do. I had a lot of sock fiber left, so I got to dyeing. I wanted to do something different. I wanted to make a yarn that starts on one side in one color and ends on the opposite side with another. And I wanted there to be […]
Hello and welcome to my first post of 2020 🙂 If you’ve been following my blog for awhile, then you know that I make these kinds of socks continuously. This particular pair was a Christmas gift to my daughter. The yarn is Premier Yarns Serenity Sock by Deborah Norville in the “Surf” colorway. My tendency […]
