lace yarn spinning wip

distelfliege — 2009-11-19T12:17:00Z

I'm trying a new way to spin a colour gradient. I've got merino tops of different colours (solid colours) and I'm carding them to blend them a bit with hand cards. The rolag I'm getting from this is split in half and each half is spun on one spindle. I've finished a skein spun this way yesterday, and when I would my plying ball, one single was only about 10 meters shorter than the other.

iSpunYarn

distelfliege — 2009-11-16T13:50:00Z

I'm feeling a bit bad, because this is really developping into a knitting and spinning blog instead of the quilting blog it was intendet to be.
But hey, I...

autumn

distelfliege — 2009-10-28T11:02:00Z

I spent the weekend at Esmes place in Leipzig, where we went for a walk and took a lot of pictures.
She's also into knitting socks and spinning at the moment, and so the whole visit just became a very relaxed retreat of knitting, talking, sipping tea, cooking pumpkin soup, spinning, walking through falling leaves and jumping over little pools of rain along the path, more spinning, knitting and cuddling the cats. Just...

October's hurrying past me..

distelfliege — 2009-10-21T21:08:00Z

...and I seem to stand besides the carousel. Maybe that has to do with the dwarves and tree spirits in the park, maybe they've bewitched me?

knitting again: some socks

distelfliege — 2009-09-22T21:50:00Z

It seems to me like I've completely become absorbed by knitting and wool and spinning and stuff. I would love to make more Midget Blocks, but I always end up knitting more socks. Some time ago, I have counted my sockyarn skeins and estimated that I've got yarn to knit at least 24 pairs of socks. Which means I will have to knit 20 pairs of socks until I may buy more sock yarn.
I have been tempted several times, seen really beautiful yarn, or yarn sold cheaply, and I stayed strong...

the deadliest crab

distelfliege — 2009-09-10T12:38:00Z

Wow, it's finished!!

just what is it that makes the poor so patient so quiet?

distelfliege — 2009-08-18T19:40:00Z

just what is it that makes the poor so patient so...

making my rattle part 2

distelfliege — 2009-08-10T22:35:00Z

On the annual womyns summer camp I started to make a rattle for myself, out of goats skin, I think.
Today, I picked up the empty, hardened head of the rattle, and filled it with mung beans. I stuck the handle into the head, and wrapped a wet strip of cloth around the skin around the wood, to make it soft and adapt to the form of the wooden stick.
It was a wonderful day and I tried to capture the sun, the water, and the rattle with my camera:

bike protection charm

distelfliege — 2009-08-05T11:12:00Z

Yesterday, I made a bike protection charm, containing a dagaz rune, one Thors hammer, dragons-blood (resin), Asafoetida, chili peppers, hair, safety pins, and I can't remember what. I painted a very nice skull on...

old and new bike

distelfliege — 2009-08-03T10:48:00Z

Recently, I parted with my old "witch horse" bicycle, and it was really really a hard thing to do. I even had to cry some when I left it behind for good, to go to the bike shop to choose a new one.
I don't own a driving licence and have no car (of course), so my bike is my daily transportation around the city of Berlin. I had bought a diamond back bicycle, in 1998 or so, used, which carried me everywhere, it just flew, like a dream. As my gears and chain and everything...

african fabrics

distelfliege — 2009-06-13T09:55:00Z

Yesterday a friend came to visit, we wanted to sew some quilt blocks and admire each other's old Bernina sewing machines. The latter is something we didn't quite get to, because we talked so much instead. (which was wonderful)

She gave me this wonderful green printed Soso wax fabric with the yellow and orange abstract wheel designs on it. I shared the fabrics from Senegal with her.
Here are my african fabrics:

Stoffmarkt Holland

distelfliege — 2009-06-08T19:57:00Z

On saturday I visited the "Stoffmarkt Holland". Which is a fabric market. Mostly fabric merchants from the Netherlands, but also German sellers are touring through germany and spreading some dutch market culture. They are near Berlin, in Potsdam, once or twice a year, and every time lots and lots of crafty folk, some quilters, but mostly people who sew clothes, travel far to get there.

Though we do have a fabric market in Berlin, where mostly turkish sellers are...

Handspun socks finished

distelfliege — 2009-06-04T16:12:00Z

I looooooove them!!
handdyed wool top with easter egg colors, spun into a single yarn and without any setting of twist knit the socks with the "energized...

knitting or spinning in unusual places

distelfliege — 2009-05-27T23:20:00Z

At the moment, I seem to come across online discussions where in public you can knit or spin quite often. The best pic I have seen is by Starathena, here she is blogging about herself knitting on a "Splash Mountain" ride at Disneyland! (Inclucing photo)
I'm quite moderate compared to her, I only spin while going to the grocery store and in the park, in the waiting...

Summertime

distelfliege — 2009-05-26T21:17:00Z

I love fields full of poppies. This is summer, the real summer!
This pic was taken on a bicycle tour to the garden. 40 km, following the former Berlin Wall.

My bike has been used...

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