Here are my latest handspun efforts.

A cheerful 2ply fractal spun yarn, that I intend to make socks from. I had high hopes that this would be a sock weight, but after finishing the yarn, it plumped right up, and became a dk weight. ah well, the socks will knit up faster. The fibre is Corriedale, […]

I’m sure that this post will strike a chord with most of you: too many projects, too little time. Sound familiar? Some days this gives me a glass half full feeling - yay, I will never run out of fun things to do! - and other days I get a glass half empty feeling - how […]

Oh, the snow. The snow, the snow, the snow. What with the icy roads, being ill for a week, and a broken down car, I haven’t been out of the house for what feels like forever. I was just about ready to chew my own arm off on Saturday night. I was fed-up of knitting, fed-up of […]

After a week of madly knitting in every spare moment, I finished Albie’s baby cardigan on Saturday. I don’t think I’ve ever felt such a sense of achievement doing anything as I did knitting that cardigan from my own handspun. It was awesome. Here’s a reminder of what the roving was like:

And here’s the little […]

Its very strange, I was sure I’d taken an in-progress shot of this yarn, but I can’t find one, so I guess not. Pity, I like showing the yarn develop step by step. This was spun from 200g of Falkland fibre from Felt Studio UK, and was bliss to spin.

(photo courtesy of and copyright of FeltStudioUK)
I was working on trying […]