http://www.createwithfibre.co.uk en-gb createwithfibre.co.uk 2009-8-23T00:00:00Z createwithfibre.co.uk http://www.createwithfibre.co.uk/page10.htm#47374 I am spending the weekend washing carding and spinning wool. Yummy. this is a good time of year to wash fleeces as it means they can dry outside. due to the qualities of wool that has not been commercially scoured even when the oil is washed out it dries really quickly. it is quite common for a fleece to be dry after a few hours outside is Scottish sun. As some of you will know I spin to order so most of the spinning I do is for other people. That suits me fine as I could never keep up with all the spinning I want to do and would end up with an awful lot of knitwear. Not many people do it but I like it. Over the last fifteen years I have spun many things Cashgora really yummy this. I spun it for years for a woman with a spinning business in Orkney. Musk Ox a story here. It is a highly sought after fibre by spinners and knitters alike. I had 5 sacks of it to spin for someone else He was an arctic explorer and collected it from rocks etc over a period of time. It was a dr... 2009-8-23T00:00:00Z http://www.createwithfibre.co.uk/page10.htm#46133 2nd August 2009I have been spinning some very nice Merino and Silk blended tops purchased from httpwww.scottishfibres.co.uk. this was sparked off by my spinning and weaving guilds recent retreat. A friend bought some Noro thick singles yarn in merino and silk. it had several colours in it and was 1639.50 per 100g. I decided to copy it and my own version cost just1633.50. I am now knitting a cardigan with it using a chevron pattern which my friend Julie provided. It is a common pattern so you may have it but dont you know it is just never to hand when you need it...so to save you the bother look on the free stuff page and the pattern is yours.over the last couple of months I have made a wrapover cardigan in multi coloured hand spun merino super wash yarn for my 2 year old grand daughter a pair of cotton socks from charity shop yarn at 50p a ball in a kind of minty green which I over dyed a knitting bag from a thick slub yarn which is dyed in dark blue shades. It has huge bobbles ... 2009-8-2T00:00:00Z http://www.createwithfibre.co.uk/page10.htm#45526 2009-7-24T00:00:00Z