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I finished my dad's sweater! This is a ewe Lincoln/Targhee fleece spun worsted to pop the cables. I still need to adjust the neck a bit, but that's easy. I knit the cables without the extra needle and made steeks. I charted everything and crossed off every line. It may be OCD, but I had fewer...
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Hello from Minnesota! It's great to find this forum. I don't really know what took me so long!! To introduce myself...I've had the good fortune to have two fun patterns published in Spin Off--the Happy Rabbit Carrot Hat (Fall '99) and Humpty Dumpty (Spring '05). Right now I reach...
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Good morning... Sounds like an interesting electric spinner to use. It's amazing what can be done with a little imagination and initative. We will be around Paris/Versailles, but my partner knows France well and we will have a look around many places. He is familiar with Toulouse, so there is a good...
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Thought I would introduce myself. I live near Sydney at the moment, and have been spinning for many years - started when I was living in New Zealnd and it became very addictive, as it does. I have an Ashford Traveller which I bought as a kit set a couple of years ago, then stained, varnished and put...
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Actually, north of Pittsburgh, PA in Evans City. Drop spinner for since July 21, 2004 (learned at booth @ Weatherbury Farm's 3rd Annual Sheepfest), wheel spinner since May 20, 2005, a teacher of spinning since summer of 2007 and a paid teacher of spinning and knitting since October 16, 2008! A huge...
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I know this is say hello but I'm not sure where to post this question. If I purchase 4 oz of roving how many yards can I expect to spin? I find it so difficult purchasing roving than not having enough yarn to make a projct. Randi
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So, I've been spinning for three or four years, but I only recently learned to knit. (Yes, that's a bit wierd.) I'm working on my first real knitting project, a baby blanket for my soon-to-arrive daughter, knit in a basketweave pattern from 2ply merino superwash that I spindle-spun and plied...
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Hi everyone - what a wonderful forum Spin-Off has put together for all of us spinners, knitters, etc. I am excited to meet new spinners and hopefully develop more insight about the wonders of the spinning wheel. I just attended a retreat with Judith MacKenzie last weekend and am much more comfortable...
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I have been knitting since I was a kid, and spinning since the early 80's. For about 20 years I spun almost every piece of yarn that I knit. Now I do more dying and knitting than anything else, but I bought some dyed fiber at Stitches West a couple weeks ago, every bit of that is spun up, and I am...