tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-58985659332945909362024-03-12T20:30:31.906-06:00Spindle DreamsFiber adventures in Windy Wyomingdorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.comBlogger56125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-77674956512226680422010-07-03T18:12:00.001-06:002010-07-03T18:12:16.674-06:00wheels wheels Originally uploaded by spindledreams Today I brought home my very first Antique wheel. I have a feeling my beautiful Grace will not the last one I buy. Grace is a Great Wheel or Walking Wheel. She is actually a fairly big one with a 46 inch wheel. As you can see in this photo just the wheel dwarfs my big 30 inch Jensen Ashley. I can't wait to get a side by side photo of themdorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-33013182369131797092010-03-01T17:55:00.003-07:002010-03-02T14:45:11.240-07:00Cast On Mania!Ravelympics are behind us and now comes some total craziness. This month in the Village is Cast on Mania. We will try to cast on at least one project every single day of the month. Believe it or not it is harder then it sounds. Smile I worked really hard for the Ravelympics and even earned some medals :) I am thrilled since during the last Ravelympics I did not manage to finish a single thing.dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-84271756564926640962010-02-04T21:04:00.003-07:002010-02-04T21:06:30.195-07:00Wedding Shawl Papay detail 1 Originally uploaded by spindledreams Well as always I seem to have made a few changes to the pattern picked for the Wedding shawl for Sami. I was having problems with the Sampler Stole and when I saw the beautiful Papay shawl by Liz Lovick I fell in love. I have finished the first set of patterns and started the second set. This shawl is supposed to be very large and dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-47763354466456795312009-12-16T09:51:00.003-07:002009-12-16T10:04:18.417-07:00KarmaAbout 3 years ago when my best friend found the light of her life I promised her a shawl to wear at her wedding. Knowing she is allergic to almost all animal fibers I immediately went searching for the perfect yarn. We discovered she could wear silk :) so off I went to ColourMart UK and I found this wonderful pale silver silk in a fine yarn that would be perfect for the elegant Shetland lace dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-73944112693490783012009-09-30T00:14:00.002-06:002009-09-30T00:23:34.605-06:00Mojo Mojo Originally uploaded by spindledreams Mo recently gave us a real scare. He would yelp and start to turn to the right, was unresponsive to us until touched. At 13 years old we know that every day is now really borrowed time but the thought of losing him is still very hard to bear. When my friend Margaret brought him to us as a present he would fit in my hands with his skin dripping dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-62995390885861070872009-07-22T02:21:00.002-06:002009-07-22T02:23:22.423-06:00Celebrations and Challenges ready for the challange 2 Originally uploaded by spindledreams Today is the hardest day for the Tour de France riders. They have two tall mountains to climb but it is also a sort of hump day that signals the end of the tour is nearing. After today there are only four more days of riding. In the Tour de Fleece we are supposed to challenge our selves today. My increased effort will be dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-36607347936346274972009-07-18T12:04:00.006-06:002009-07-18T12:16:57.658-06:00have you ever heard of a tahkli? tahkli Originally uploaded by spindledreams It is a small fast supported spindle used to spin cotton and other short stapled fibers. I have a large one that I have never been able to make work right. Then I saw these coin tahkli on sale. The are made and sold by Spinnerdude on Etsy and figured I could afford another spindle I can't spin. Then I found the funds for his kit and figured dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-20101964453905447562009-07-08T01:03:00.001-06:002009-07-08T01:03:30.955-06:00Lace falbala row 11 Originally uploaded by spindledreams Ahhh Falbala how do I love thee. She is a crochet lace triangle shaped shawl. I am using Brown Sheep Wildfoote in Vanilla for her and she is beautiful.dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-54847964510391098572009-06-17T03:44:00.004-06:002009-06-17T04:25:57.718-06:00CROCHET!Man is my mind wondering a lot these days. Can I blame it on the cough? Which is still going strong on week 4 and we are no closer to knowing what the cause is then when I first went to see the doc. I have all these fair projects carefully thought out. Remember the baby set etc... So why did I let Jabberjaws AKA Jill talk me into not just a crochet project but an IRISH CROCHET project. I know itdorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-8775137622567471012009-06-13T05:44:00.004-06:002009-06-13T06:30:25.287-06:00DPNs socks and doiliesNow I know I have not used DPNs in awhile but this was ridiculous. I got my stitches cast on and couldn't remember how to join them in a circle on DPNs!? So off I had to go in search of a good tutorial with pictures to show me how to use DPNs. It was rather embarrassing to say the least when I had to ask my online friends for help. But I got past it and even finished a baby sock and cast on a dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-91623482673944586062009-06-03T06:28:00.005-06:002009-06-03T07:12:25.842-06:00Blame it on GailI mean seriously if it weren't for Gail I would not be in this mess. This is Gail. Well granted you do have to scroll down to see the photos and find the link for the pattern but well you can see what I am talking about. Gail is the object of Knit Along in one of my Ravelry groups and Gail is beautiful and I was going to use my Blue Jeans sock yarn for her. But Gail and Blues Jeans don't work dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-18465026728794155852009-05-29T13:59:00.002-06:002009-05-29T14:09:03.190-06:00Zephyr scarfWhen I first got the book Weaving Made Easy I fell in love with the "Tweedy Scarf" made from Jaggerspun Zephyr. I even scrapped up the funds to splurge and buy the yarns for it. Grin then I came to my senses and realized I was not ready to weave that scarf just yet. That yarn has languished for months as I worked on my skills so I could do it justice. Today I got up the courage to start that dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-27004897411762463122009-05-28T03:33:00.005-06:002009-05-28T04:18:36.531-06:00Nice surpriseIn fall of 2007 I started a FLAK which is a cabled sweater. You can read about my adventures with that sweater in the posts starting here. It was a really wonderful deep heathered brown and I adored it. My life being what is is somehow this sweater start got misplaced. Then I got some unwelcome guests in my life and since then I have been tossing bug eaten fiber, yarn and projects as I find dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-84546126763607686062009-05-06T10:57:00.004-06:002009-05-10T07:18:37.032-06:00Spring is hereI know because I have seen Robins flying around and our daylilys are coming up. Sigh now to get up the desire to work in the garden before it needs to be planted out. Of course my little seedlings won't go out until the end of May but still.My weaving is on hold for a bit as I KNIT some baby items and a stuffed animal for family and friends. I have started a darling top by Oat Couture called dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-39314230616570816132009-04-27T09:58:00.004-06:002009-04-27T10:09:50.667-06:00Winter RemedySince our long and dreary winter still showed no sign of stopping I gave in to an impulse buy about a month ago. Completely impulsive and totally not the kind of flower I would normally go for even. I went to get groceries and the store had a huge display of orchids. Yeah pretty and expensive and so not me where are the daisies? Then I looked at the price! OH MY GOSH! They only wanted $10 fordorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-20599688776840971552009-04-24T10:52:00.004-06:002009-04-24T11:26:36.624-06:00Looms, Looms, and more loomsI feel like my house is being taken over by looms. I have been looking at all the loom types and the numbers here and WOW is all I can say. I have two Mini Tablet looms. Think small inkle looms with out a heddle bar. Then there are the 4 or 5 Mini Inkle looms I got from one maker that really don't work well for anything. The sheds on this particular makers looms is too narrow to make them dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-72683076081916943612009-02-09T12:20:00.003-07:002009-02-09T12:29:21.136-07:00EmiliaBoy am I excited! I got my Glimarka Emilia in the mail today. This is a very sturdy little rigid heddle loom for me to use at demos. The Emilia has a 13 inch weaving width and is designed and built with all the care and attention to detail that Glimarka puts into their larger looms. It did not take long at all to have the Emilia ready to warp and weave on BUT it is time for me to get some dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-78836493002241809502009-02-07T02:22:00.003-07:002009-02-07T02:46:52.345-07:00Summer and WinterIt is done finally! This is the last of the three scarves I was weaving with variegated yarn. This one has the same variegated yarn for both the warp and weft. I think the pattern it made is very interesting. Now on to more intriguing things. Toli and I will be doing a Weave along/workshop on Summer and Winter weave. We found a really nice towel pattern that uses that weave structure in a "dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-63175524115985103572009-01-25T09:07:00.001-07:002009-01-25T09:07:08.917-07:00Look at my loom bench :) Scooted under the Beka RL Originally uploaded by spindledreams My wonderful DH made me a bench to sit on while weaving on my Beka RL. The Beka has a weaving width of 32 inches so stays on the stand permanently. Up until now that meant I had to haul a chair into my craft room to weave and haul it out when finished. My bench is designed to scoot underneath the Beka when not in use. Indorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-91942083366689298692009-01-24T10:17:00.002-07:002009-01-24T10:18:57.941-07:00Finished! varigated wool scarves Originally uploaded by spindledreams Yep the variegated wool scarves are now finished. They got a bit more fulled then I had planned on but are still nice. Compare the finished scarves with the picture in the last post which is of them before fulling.The variegated acrylic scarf is still on the Beka and I really need to get it off in a hurry. My yarns for the dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-6510337837714309282009-01-07T03:49:00.003-07:002009-01-07T03:56:51.541-07:00Immersed in weavingGrin I am still weaving to the exclusion of almost all my other crafts. I finished weaving one of my variegated scarves and am half way through the second scarf from the same variegated wool. These have been a lot of fun and are VERY different as you can see from the photo. My next project is part of a weave along/workshop to learn a weaving style called Summer and Winter. More on that one dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-88666589500054566142008-12-19T07:28:00.008-07:002008-12-24T10:35:21.509-07:00Weaving & Variegated yarnsRecently I found a couple of balls of Rio de la Plata Worsted Multicolor in my stash diving. I also found a green semi solid that may also have been Rio de la Plata in one of the grab bags I got recently during the anniversary sale at Ewe Count. So I set out to weave a scarf and ended up making two.The first one I made using the Rio de la Plata for the warp and the semi solid grey green for the dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-1451083991261537402008-12-10T07:34:00.003-07:002009-01-04T08:36:02.783-07:00Swap Scarf my scarf for swap Originally uploaded by spindledreams I signed up for the scarf swap in one of my weaving groups in Ravelry. This has been my main project since then. I did dither back and forth about the kind of scarf I wanted to make. Fancy dressy or maybe just a plain warm scarf for winter. Since it was going to New Hampshire I finally settled on picking out colors for a simple dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-42907408790097273952008-11-26T22:39:00.005-07:002008-11-26T22:53:07.167-07:00Weaving cornerThere is the new to me Beka RL all warped up and with weaving on it. It is pure pleasure to weave on. I never realized how nice it would be to have a loom ready to weave on any time I wanted without having to haul it out and/or something to set it on. I am really doing more weaving now that Beka is so accessible. Alas my poor abandoned Ashford is hanging forlornly on the wall waiting for my dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5898565933294590936.post-34720336292830214602008-11-05T09:41:00.001-07:002008-11-05T09:41:09.187-07:00New look to my "craft" room Beka RL 32 inches Originally uploaded by spindledreams I got a new to me loom recently and have been very busy cleaning and rearranging my "craft" room so I have room to work on her. I am really enjoying my rigid heddle looms. The 24" Ashford rigid heddle has a sampler on it that I have been trying various pick up stick and weaver manipulated patterns on. This new loom is a 32" Beka dorothy in wyominghttp://www.blogger.com/profile/00157446896741877634noreply@blogger.com0