Sunday Inspirations

Almond Pound Cake with Orange Glaze - - this sounds delicious


Steam "hard boiled" Eggs - - this sounds interesting to try and to see if it effects the eggs in any way.

Happy Snowy Easter!

Berry Crush Socks

I recently saw a picture on Instagram of Annettle's Graquellow Socks and loved the texture. I was so inspired I grabbed some yarn I had recently dyed and casted on.

My version is garter stitch between slipped stitches and love how it is turning out. This color is one I recently dyed as a variegated and I love it, but it is difficult to photograph.


It's between the picture above and the picture below.


Love the texture.



The last socks I knit myself were in 2013, before that 2011, so I think I am due a pair of hand knit socks! :)



Are we noticing a recent pink and purple theme? Yeah, I don't know where it is coming from either, but I am very oddly enjoying it, so we will just go with the flow.

Spinning Experiment

So with my Valentine yarn I am plying-on-the-fly, which utilizes chain plying to create a 3-ply yarn. I like to spin thin and was a little disappointed with how thin my 3-ply was, a heavy lace/light fingering. I was given the idea that when plying on the fly I could do it twice and create a 9-ply by chain plying the yarn I had just chain plied.

Here are the two skeins next to each other. I did a smallish sample of the 9-ply, but large enough I could get a good feeling of how it would turn out.


I decided not to do it all 9-ply as that is just a little too thick for me. It's a bit thicker than worsted, by eyeballing it, which will probably grow after it's been washed.


Here is a better comparison.  The 9-ply is wonderfully squishy though!


Started spinning the rest of it, going to stick with the 3-ply to finish it up.



When I start my next fiber I want to experiment with plying-on-the-fly to see what I can get. I think it might be possible to get a 5-ply by double looping, but I'll need to experiment. If I can get a 5-ply/6-ply that would be ideal.

Valentines Spinning

I realized today that I haven't posted any of my Valentine's spinning yet. I have been working on it through January.

Here it was at the start, I am doing plying on the fly, so I spin up a certain amount of singles, wind them on the shaft, ply them, and then wind them on the arms.


Here you can see the ball of yarn wrapped around the arms is the plied yarn and the singles wrapped around the shaft.


I am usually not a pink person, but I have been quite addicted to this colorway.



Here is where I am so far. I'm trying to spin the whole 4oz on my Turkish spindle. It is the Large in the sleeker design from Threadsthrutime.


The fiber is Victoria from Greenwood Fiberworks in Polwarth, which is lovely to spin. I absolutely love their fibers.

Belated Wookie Birthday!

With all the doggy check-ups and court dates we forgot to mention that Wookie turned 5 on Wednesday!

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Eleanor's ballet wrap

Eleanor's ballet wrap is starting to look like an actual top! I started late, but think I am making decent progress.

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