Toggle's spinning tip of the week

Carding dark blues into light coloured fibers looks mucky. it all goes a greyish colour and looks crap. it all looks a mushy grey colour and not very fun.

Roughly carded mixtures of pastels looks fab and sparkle carded into dark coloured fibre looks spectacular, sparkle carded into white fibre is nothing special

it was all too much for baby

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After a had day's crawling around on the floor, picking up bits of everything to taste, supper was just too much like more hard work.

Note to self

That really pretty insect picture on your blog is in fact a moth, backlit in a very intersying manner by a black computer screen. However interesting it looks, it won't stay there, and you can't get it to move by waving the mouse pointer at it.

Toggle's spinning tip of the week, part 2

When managing really annoyingly large numbers of plies and trying to add twist gets too much, try not adding twist, just wind the plies together, onto a ball winder, nosterapine or your wheel, I use my louet with the break band holding the flyer stationary so the plies just wind on.

When you have it all in place, you can then run your multiple plies through your wheel to add the twist.

Toggle's spinning tip of the week

When plying with beads strung onto thread, don't stress about having to put all the beads on in one go, add some beads, ply until those are all used, then break the thread and string more. Hold the 2 ends together and tie a simple knit. You can then move one of the beads up over the knot, elaving the ends tucked into the bead.

gin 'n' tonic

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This is a sample of an art yarn inspired by the gin and tonic I was drinking while spinning it. I have turned it into a bracelet, I may make some more of this, or go along a different line to try to make something more arty.

fiberlicious

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This is some of my handspun, drying in the Cornish sun.

Check out the etsy link, there is handspun and earrings for sale now.

selling stuff

Finally got all ready to start selling that stuff. Only it's not felt, it's starting with handspun. I think it's scrummy.

sleepy baby

sleepy baby
Originally uploaded by toggle490

Couldn't resist a nice picture of a sleepy baby.

Nothing much else to add right now, kids have started back at school, their father has been down to visit them and his family have sent them pressies, including the dress baby is wearing. i wouldn't have chosen it, but it's quite cute really.

happy new year

Time to share a few more photos with you. I took this in Truro this afternoon on my way to take the kids in to see their father. It's for a competition in a few weeks, theme is 'derelict'

It just caught my eye as an interesting subject. I think the photo may be too dark, and I think i could get a better angle as well. It's near the park where I go take the children to play quite often, so I may try to go back there and get a picture in better light.



There is some knitting content as well. Here is a scarf I made that can sit and wait until I decide what to do with it. It may go to baby when she's a little older, or it may wait until it becomes a gift. I like to keep a few little child size somethings waiting for those moments when i get told someone's child is 3 today.


baby socks from an orphan ball of regia 6-ply silk that I bought for about 1.50. Since they suggest 3 balls for adult socks, this was being sold off as fairly useless to most people, so I snapped it up for fancy baby socks. You can see a great view of those amazingly fat thighs. Not a patch on her sisters at that age though.


And a better view of the little sweetheart. Not my best ever photo, but shows off how pretty she is. I need to start playing with a photoshop clone and get rid of that redeye