knitting wash day and a dash of spinning

 Sometimes the day is so cold and dreary that the lights and the heating are on pretty much all day. It was like that recently so I took advantage of the warm house ( and having a dehumidifier) and washed all  hat and headband knits.

These have been fun to knit over the last few months and any scraps go into knitting headbands. I have made a few fingerless mitts but they are still in the wash bag

The spinning wheel has had an outing or two as I had 140gm of bfl/texel to spin, it will need an overdye I think but at least its now spun and washed.

I still have quite a bit of yarn to skein up neatly, measure and label so I can see exactly where I am plus a fair amount to spin up still. The Ashford e-spinner is still my wheel of choice and I continue to ply on that even when I have spun the singles on the Argonaut.

spinning, quick bfl / texel cross update

 Much of my spinning recently has been on the Nano but the Ashford E-spinner has been in use behind the scenes.

Anyone else had a problem with the foot control? I'm now about to start using my third one !! in six years.

Sill, the dye bag is filling up, ready for a run of reasonable weather.

This is 600 plus gm of the bfl x texel

and this is 200gm border leicester cross and 100gm ish of ryeland sitting in the middle.

I have a lot more washed fleece to work through and hopefully by the beginning of March I will have it all dyed up.

taking a snow day

 Well, I would if I was still working as there are no buses running down the valley. We had the first snow of winter last night, a surprising five inch worth of snow although its thawing out now. To put the excitement in context, we had two reasonable falls of snow last winter and we missed both of them due to being a different part of the country.

I ventured out early as far as the garden., this was my washing line at 6.30am

As I was putting the kettle on for my second cuppa of the day I spotted this visitor at the top of the tree.

Being up early meant a quick chat with assorted people on line before they went to bed whilst working on mitt no 1 which is now complete except for sewing in the ends. I have now remembered how much I hate knitting thumbs.

later in the day I cast on the second mitt

and spun some boring white yarn

prepping bfl x texel fleece

 

This fleece was cheap, in fact the postage cost more than the fleece ! Still its not bad but some staining which became more apparent as I spun the first three skeins. They will be overdyed but will probably still stripe once knitted.

This time I combed as usual then blended further on the drum carder so fingers crossed.

There is about 580gm here so I'll probably prep a bit more tomorrow and hopefully spin it up during the week.