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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 them

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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.

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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

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About 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

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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

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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

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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

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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.

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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 it

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Now 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

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I 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

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When 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

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In 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

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I 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

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Since 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 for

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I 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

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Boy 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

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It 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 "

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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. In

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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

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Grin 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

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Recently 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

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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

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There 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

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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

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weaving helper Originally uploaded by spindledreams I have been attempting to learn to weave on my Rigid Heddle loom. As I posted before Ms Violet has come to think that the loom and its cloth is her own special bed. I thought I would share a photo of her on "her bed" Grin yall can see why I have problems weaving around her. If I can get her to move I will post some photos of the

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leno samples Originally uploaded by spindledreams And some "huck lace" attempts. This was going to be a warm winter shawl woven on my Rigid Heddle but I got a bit sidetracked. Ms Violet loves sleeping on it so this piece will probably turn into a bed for her. Grin it was certainly interesting when she plopped down on top of "HER" cloth when I had the loom in weaving position. UFF! A

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 SMILE this chair was one of the best things I found at our local fair. I was also lucky that my winnings covered about half the cost of it or Toli would never have agreed to it. It is the perfect height for my wheels and for his loom and looks nice enough we would not be ashamed to offer it to company. Also comfortable enough with that thick cushion and the back support. I only wish I could

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June 24th I stepped in a small depression in a parking lot sigh. Such a small thing to do the damage it caused. A fractured ankle and wrist and 6 weeks of lost wages. The timing was of course horrid. I had 16 more rounds on the Wedding Shawl to go and could not knit with my wrist in a splint...Since the wedding was 2 DAYS after my wrist would come out of the splint I asked my LYSO if she knew

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And yesterday Leesa finally got to see it for the first time in real life. She fell in LOVE. The color, the drape, the softness, the pattern, etc etc. Good thing since it is far too late to start another shawl and have it done in time for her wedding. The photo is what Leesa got to see and handle. I will have to knuckle down and really concentrate on her shawl as her wedding is getting rather

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The shawl is slowly growing. I am now up to row 87. YIPPIE only 73 more to go groan... I am wondering if this shawl will get finished in time for the wedding in July. But I will keep working on it as time permits. The picture is how the shawl looked at row 77. SMILE that is TEN rows ago.I did finally sit down and figure out that I have about 45 minutes of knitting time I can almost count on at

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But I do have a bit of an excuse... In March they started to paint the store I work at. I am allergic to paint fumes. Needless to say most of March passed in a drugged haze. Sometime in the middle of the month a large box was delivered to the store for me. To give an idea just how bad I felt I did not run out immediately and pick it up even knowing it was there and that it was my brand new

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I finally managed to get a good photo of this shawl. The others have shown the pattern well but this one actually shows you what the silk looks like. I am really loving this pattern. In this photo I am nearly finished with chart 1 of the 5 charts in the pattern. This chart has the most rows but it is merely the prelude to the rest of the pattern. On the sock front I have gotten one of the

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boring sock 2 Originally uploaded by spindledreams DH is diabetic so when I started to make these socks using information from book "New Pathways for Sock Knitters" I was a bit concerned about how rough they might be on the inside. So I had him try them on so we could see how the increases felt. The good news is that even with me rubbing right on the increases he could not feel them.

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I got a comment on my first post on this shawl from the designer. :) Since he posted the address to his yahoo group I now feel free to post it here. The pattern for Queen Anne's Lace as well as other fabulous patterns from him can be found at the Yahoo group MMarioKKnits. You can also find some of his patterns listed on Ravelry. Just use MMario for the designer name to find them. Grin I have

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QAL size 6 row 18 Originally uploaded by spindledreams As you can see the Queen Anne's Lace shawl looks much better on the size 6 then the size 8 needles. I will continue with this shawl and frog the one on the size 8 needles.

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I have had a number of friends ask where they can get the pattern for the shawl I linked to in my last post. For them and others that may be interested the pattern is hereI originally started this in 8/56 silk on the called for US size 8 but I think that was a bit too open. I left that shawl where it was and opened the second cone of silk to try it on smaller needles. Here it is on US size 6

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finished 2-12-2008 2-40-11 PM Originally uploaded by spindledreams My socks by gosh are done and already have spent a whole day at work on my feet. They fit very very well and were nice and comfortable. As you can see even Ms Violet approves of the fit. Now back to my regularly scheduled projects the sweater for me and most important the wedding shawl for my heart sister. The was going

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Well the knitting is rather boring. My husband has declared his socks should be plain stockinette. He means the WHOLE sock not just the foot. He even wanted me to leave out the ribbing at the top! Now this is a LOVELY yarn and I have managed to get the first sock up to the expansion triangle. Yes these will use one of the architectures from the book New Pathways for Sock Knitters. I will be

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Pretty socks 1-21-2008 11-59-54 AM Originally uploaded by spindledreams Grin we have a pair of sock! Yes they are a pair complete with some cuff. I could actually stop anytime now and they would count as a completed pair of socks, however I want the cuffs a bit longer. I have also cast on a pair for my DH using a wool/bamboo blend yarn from karenc2658 on eBay. I love the colors of

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a sock by gosh Originally uploaded by spindledreams Well almost grin I still need to knit the leg and cuff but I finally got that blasted heel done. I really should not try something new when I am half asleep. After 3 tries I finally understood what the book was saying and I now have my first sock in thin yarn waiting for its mate to catch up.

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Yall have read and seen photos of my Socks by Gosh as I have been calling them. The fit is wonderful! I am busy with the heel right now and totally frustrated. Grin I messed them up and have to tink a few rows but that is for another day. Which explains why I fell for the Siren call of another of the sock yarns. I grabbed that beautiful blue multi color I got off eBay and figured I would give

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 LOOK! I am actually doing the back of the FLAK sweater! Boy there were times when I never thought this would happen. But all the hard work is now paying off. I am realy pleased with how this is looking so far.

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Well combine it with the new Cat Bordhi book "New Pathways for Sock Knitters" and a new friend who is an avid sock knitter. What you get is sore fingers and a half done sock grin.Needless to say my sweater has been on hold for the past two weeks as I chugged away on this little oddity. It uses the Upstream Architecture from the book and I am now trying to figure out the heel.Notice how short

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bright enough? Originally uploaded by spindledreams Okay my LYSO says I have been buying too many muted and dull colors and need to add some bright yarn to my life. Specifically she suggested a pair of socks. So we spent about half an hour looking through her sock yarns to find a "bright" yarn I approved of. We came up with the Trekking on the right. Then yesterday I was in Ft

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Grin I got to start the sweater this weekend. My cable swatch is done. You can see it here before I cast off using EZs sewn bind off. That was fun as I underestimated the amount of yarn needed and finished with just an inch of my tail left. My cable swatch has been washed, dried and measured. I enjoyed knitting this swatch and really love the way the cables have turned out. I have the saddles

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Whew I was so relived when this set of cable plans turned out so nicely. I picked Attempt 2 to swatch first as I liked it a bit better then the Attempt 1. I just picked up were I was on my cable swatch which meant I actually started on Row 2 and knit upwards. I managed to finish row 12 before my stitches started to blur when I looked at them. Grin I figured that was a sign I had been up too

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After picking a texture I needed to graph the cables and make a cable gauge. Only one problem, I wanted a diamond cable on my sweater and there were none in the pattern as written. So off I went in search of a diamond cable. Sigh that took some time but I finally found one that I thought would work. So back to my graphs. I originally thought of simply replacing the center horseshoes and

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In my last post I was off to make a swatch of texture patterns. That done I picked two patterns I liked seed stitchrow 1 K1 P1row 2 P 1 K1and a pattern called Sand Stitch from Barbara Walker Vol 1. Sand Stitch is a bit like a broken Seed Stitch grin. This stitch is a 4 row repeat even number of stitches.row 1 and 3 knitrow 2 K1 P1row 4 P1 K1Okay so now I had two texture stitches. I liked both

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texture swatch 1 Originally uploaded by spindledreams For a couple of years now I have been trying to get up the courage to make myself a sweater but lets face it me, depression, and multiple pieces that must match each other in gauge meant it was not going to happen. This year I really looked at this pattern. The Follow-the-Leader-Aran Knitalong is so prettty and it turns out this

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It seems like I am getting loads of babies to knit for. My granddaughter Mina was born in August and now I have heard that Angie, my youngest sons girl friend, is pregnant! Then there is the driver we see frequently at work who is only about 8 weeks away from having her baby. I saw her night before last and passed on a pair of baby booties I had crocheted from some bfl handspun. You should

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As they said in the one cartoon that my sons watched. I got a call at about 1am MST from my oldest who has been in Iraq. He was in Kuwait waiting for his freedom bird :) His large extended family, many of whom he has never met,that will be cheering today. It feels odd to hear your postman say Semper Fi when he delivers a package from Iraq or hear it at the counter when they see a package to a

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And I am soooooooo ready for some rest but it is always lots of fun during the fairs. I demo spinning at our local County Fair and of course I have some entries in. This year my biggest project was a shawl in a heavy lace weight/light fingering weight alpaca/silk handspun yarn. The shawl did well at both county fair and state fair earning a first place award both places. The best prize however

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I got my yarn in from Twinkletoes Yarns and I am busy swatching to see if I need to change needle size to get gauge. The yarn is a pale almost bubblegum pink with areas of lilac and smokey grey. Not enough to distract from the pattern but enough to be noticeable.In this picture of the yarn you can see a bit of the subtle colors in it besides the pale pink. I think this will be a beautiful pair

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I also don't care much smart know it alls who think that it is just a matter of finding the right pattern or technique. The fact of the matter is I have lots of patterns and I have knit socks but they are far from my favorite item to knit. So why am I looking at a new sock pattern and have even bought the yarn to knit it with? Because it is for a cause I strongly support. The sock pattern is

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Got a new motherboard for my old system and I followed all the rules and made a nice backup of the information I wanted to make sure I would not lose...Had problems with old system and my DH got me a brand new system for Mothers Day. YEA! A nice machine with an LCD wide screen monitor etc and Vista operating system. Vista does not recognize my backup file sigh Nor does XP so here I sit with no

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