My husband is wanting to know why I appear to be stuck to my iMac….I could spend weeks poking around in there.
Thank you all for your support, prayers, good wishes, kind thoughts, lovely lavender – a very appropriate healing gift – cards and messages. They worked! 12 days on and I ‘m feeling better! Hope to resume normal Spinning Life before long. Shall miss our woolly day on Saturday but am looking forward to Indigo day […]
You can meet this delightfully informative and entertaining visitor from the Tudor period at lunch time on 8th April at Loddington Visitor Centre* when provides a fun interlude to our learn to long draw workshop. Elizabeth will give a 45 minute talk; she arrives dressed in Tudor clothes with three baskets of ‘things’ along with her […]
This ham was a Christmas present – it came with two very sharp thin knives and a video showing how it should be carved. Our friends Nicky and Philip tackled it first, when it came back I sawed off the hoof as it put me off and wouldn’t fit in the fridge (fridge is not […]
The weather was so lovely on Tuesday that some spinners moved out of doors – the area is perfect for spinners – the seats are at just the right height. We ate out lunch out of doors for the first time ever – and it is only March!
Five more ladies learned long draw today – on drop spindles this time. I demonstrated long draw on a wheel just to get the message in – If you can spin long draw you can spin on anything, and spin any fibre! I had to try very hard not to be distracted by the lovely yarns […]
My friend sent this picture of her garden– she was ecstatic – ‘It’s Raining!’
Bob heard my studio door open yesterday and went to see who was there – he found a gypsy rifling through my yarns. ‘She was not your friend gypsy! he told me* – ‘May I help you?’ he asked in that unfailingly polite way he has. She proceeded to try to tell him his fortune […]
Forensic Knitting in Archaeology Reconstructing 16th Century Socks Knitting the world together in yet another fun way…through time! When Spanish Conquistador, Frances Pizzarro, landed in Peru to conquer the Incan empire, he didn’t realize he was bringing them a gift. Thankfully, he remembered to pack his socks. Carrie Brezine, a Harvard educated anthropologist specializing in […]
I have time on my hands due to a medical issue that means I am not fit for work! So, I washed and carded some fleece for another pullover. It is for a friend of my brother who saw my latest Oil Slick pullover and declared she wanted one too – I am told she is […]
I have been given this wonderful pair of socks – Erica, my knitting advisor, described them as ‘Absolutely perfect, she is an extremely accomplished knitter, they are just beautiful’. When Erica looked at my sock effort last week she kindly suggested that I try something I ‘might find a bit easier’ ! So I did and […]
You can spin long draw on any type of wheel or spindle. There is a free long draw spinning lesson to the first person to correctly comment just how many ‘spinning devices’ are pictured here in my studio at Stoke Albany, LE16 8PS
Open day at the UK Spinning School – ashford.co.nz.
The world has more long draw spinners following my course at Knuston Hall
We particularly liked the dishwasher and large fridge. The draped pashmina visible through the hatch is by Frances – she started it at weaving school in April 2014 and wove two lovely pieces. It was interesting to see the effect of adding just one extra thread in the weft.
In November we looked at how to manage colours using Tints, Tones and Shades. In December we painted primaries and mixed secondary colours for our own colour wheels and could then see the complementary of each colour. Next month we are dyeing and exploring ways to use complementary colours. Last tuesday Rachel explained how the differing wavelengths […]