I got back from Krakow on Thursday afternoon and while I didn’t take a whole lot of pictures of Krakow itself we cooked a lot and, thus, that is what I took pictures of.
Most of that is from Christmas Eve dinner. The menu was:
Green Salad
Potato Salad
Beet Salad
Fried Carp (breaded and un-breaded)
Deviled Eggs
Bread
White Wine
Mulled Wine
Warm Beer
Crepes [...]
So currently I don’t have internet – the people at my dorm are changing over services or something like that and I’ve been without it for 3 or 4 days now. That being said, I got new goodies from Loop on etsy this week!
I was trying to hold out because I don’t have [...]
The semester is coming to a close which means – more spinning time for me! Well except first I have to write a paper and study for three finals. That being said I did some preemptive spinning last night.
I turned this
Into this
A closer look
Its corriedale in about a sport weight. If I had a [...]
This week I decided that I would teach myself how to Navajo ply mainly because I want to be able to spin self striping yarn that is plied. I also haven’t made any three ply yarn yet soo, I figured this was a good chance. I spun up 70 or so grams of this neon [...]
So it has recently come to my attention that in my ideal world, a rough outline of my [working] life after college would look like this.
I. Work at an LYS A. Teach classes at said LYSII. Eventually find a partnerIII. Stop working at LYS, start hand dying yarn and roving, and sell [...]
Last night I finally decided that it was time to actually knit with my merino/silk blend that I spun.
Its like a yarn apple
Wound on my faux nostepinne – aka an empty vitamin tablet bottle
I also am cursing myself for only having one stitch dictionary that just happens to be on cables (its how I learned [...]
I inadvertently decided that I was going to take a on week break from blogging – or something to that effect, but I’m back!
I’ve been doing a ton of spinning lately (no surprise there) and this is what I have to show of it.
The last of the nice roving
Got spun and plied to make this
I [...]
I plied around 100g of the silk/merino blend tonight. I’m pretty happy with it. Its amazingly soft and its a mix between worsted and sport weight. Oh and none of it is over spun! (and none of it is under spun to the point of falling apart/weakness) I think my goal right now is [...]
