Yet again I am guilty of not updating,….\u00a0 To busy spinning and knitting!<\/p>\n
As a quick fill in, I got my Ladybug and have been spinning merily, hand blended Jacob and Agelina Batts for socks, Jacob and Angelina Batts in pink and lilac for a cardigan for Em, Laceweight (well almost) superwash BFL for a shawl, English wool Blend from Wildcraft for a bag in the style of Lizard ridge, my first long draw, thick and thin slub yarn for a necklace, …<\/p>\n
Excitingly I got an Ashford drumcarder as a Valentine, Birthday, Xmas present (That’s xmas ’09!), I’m really pleased with it, I must wash some more fleece for blending.<\/p>\n
But what I really wanted to post about is a pattern I’m planning on spinning for, its called Sheep Yoke Cardigan<\/a>.\u00a0 I will have to alter it for Em, as its sized for 9-12months, and recalculate the yardage.\u00a0 I’m going to spin it from Superwash Merino Tops, being machine washable and soft is important for toddlers.<\/p>\n So plan of action;<\/p>\n 1. Spin some sample singles and try 2ply and 3 ply to see what I think will be best.<\/p>\n 2. Work gauge swatch.<\/p>\n 3. Work out meters\/gram of the sample I want to use.<\/p>\n 4.\u00a0 Rework the pattern in the size I need to make, and work out the yardage I need to spin.<\/p>\n 5. Dye up the fibres.<\/p>\n 6. Spin 1\/2 (or 1\/3) of each colour of fibre into singles, then spin the rest.\u00a0 (To help with consistency.)<\/p>\n 7. Ply.<\/p>\n 8. Finish and wind into balls.<\/p>\n 9. Start Knitting!<\/p>\n 10. Happy sheepy Tot. \ud83d\ude42<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Yet again I am guilty of not updating,….\u00a0 To busy spinning and knitting! As a quick fill in, I got my Ladybug and have been spinning merily, hand blended Jacob and Agelina Batts for socks, Jacob and Angelina Batts in pink and lilac for a cardigan for Em, Laceweight (well almost) superwash BFL for a … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[23,25],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=50"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=50"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=50"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/knit.colourfuldesigns.co.uk\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=50"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}