Faded Rose

It's finished, spun and plied!
Again I'm happy with the result, it's very satisfying to see the finished and completed yarn. This took quite a while to finish because it was all of 200 meters long.. so it was an endless plying night (from half past 8 till 00.30), and it took ages to skein on the swift, and again to reskein after washing and drying... but the end result is so completely worth it!

I've got a couple more things on the bobbins and also on the drop spindle... hmm I'm beginning to be as bad with spinning as with the knitting and now have WIPS and UFOs with my spinning as well...but hey, I've always been a "process knitter" and obviously now I'm a process spinner, duh, go figure....

Now I'm also still knitting, and just finished my felted slippers! Hurray! Or.. well, they're not the most wonderful examples of the pattern and the felting process in the world.. but at least they sort of fit this time.. and they're warm.. will post picture later.

Drop Spindle!

The Golding drop spindle has arrived! Today I went to De Spinners to pick it up, it's a beauty !


Now, I had spindled before, but never liked it much. However, with this spindle, spindle spinning is easy! I started right after coming home and am already halfway through the fibre, spinning a lovely thin yarn (it's a polwarth silk wool blend, hand dyed in lovely vibrant colors). It has really long color runs so I want to try my hand at Navajo plying it on the spindle.

Today was knit cafe at Dudok, very nice as usual. Afterwards Ellen and I went to de Spinners in The Hague. As this is very close to the McDonalds, you can guess where I took Ellen for a treat..! (We don't go very often, poor Ellen, because I'm not really "lovin'it"..)
Afterwards we went to The American Bookstore, and I found "Respect the Spindle", and two other knitting books that were really priced down, as well as two knitting magazines... and a Sponge Bob book for Ellen. Then on we went to Desigual to add to our wardrobe, we both bought dresses!


It was a happy Saturday out doing the things I love best in life: being with my daughter, knitting with friends, spinning, and shopping for books and clothes.....alright, so the McDonalds wasn't that bad either;-)

Knitting projects at the moment are: my giant slippers (to felt) with Drops Eskimo, a Zitron Art Multnomah, I still have to continue my cardigan with the Debbie Bliss yarn before it'll be spring and it'll be too hot to wear! And also I've got two socks on the needles (and they're both first socks, two different patterns and different yarns)...am so NOT allowed to start another new project before I finish these.. however I've already got the yarn for several new projects.

Also on the 6th of February I will be at the Rijksmuseum for the Brijksmuseumproject and am really looking forward to that. I bought Cascade 220 to knit the hat with, that I will also use for a cardigan that I want to make that will show off my spun faded autumn rose

An old spinster's weekend

As Ellen was with her dad this weekend I had a rather quiet weekend on my own. Saturday there was no knitting cafe, but I went to Dudok nevertheless to have lunch with an old friend, and afterwards went to the Bijenkorf to the sales. Bought a very lovely grey wool/angora cable cardigan, a very fine knit that you could never knit yourself, or at least I couldn't! And also some posh dark grey woolen trousers, two shirts and two leather belts. Besides this, I also spent tons of money on some antiwrinkle cream that I like and that think actually helps.
Sunday I mostly spent spinning... I'm spinning my wonderful Merino superwash top dyed by The Painted Tiger.
I'm not spinning this on the Woolee Winder, as I've got a lace merino/silk blend yarn on that bobbin and I've only got two bobbins as yet...
The spinning was at times accompanied by The Yarnspinners Tales podcast.

Then I went and prepared for myself the absolute ultimate single person's dinner, or rather "tea" in the best of British tradition.. it was beans on toast, with a fried egg and grated cheese topping. I added some parsil and chives to add a vague touch of wholesomeness.. but that's just nonsense. It wasn't maybe very healthy but it sure was nice, with a good strong cuppa with milk. It made me mentally jump right back to my 21st, when I lived in a bedsit in Reading and had this sort of meal all the time!