Category Archives: cotton

FO: Hey Hey, My My

Posted on August 13, 2013 by Leslie

              Compared to my progress on other knitted items, my version of Reiko Kuwamura’s Hey Hey, My My went by very quickly–I started it in April, worked on it mostly in June, and cast … Continue reading →

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Progress on Hey Hey, My My

Posted on May 19, 2013 by Leslie

The first item that showed me the magic of blocking was a lace baby blanket I made back in 2007. Blocking, for those of you unfamiliar with the term, is washing a hand-knitted (or, I suppose, crocheted) item so as … Continue reading →

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Back seat knitting

Posted on May 15, 2013 by Leslie

With a 5-6 hour car ride to Montreal coming up, being faced with dozens of rounds of repetitive stockinette in the Hey Hey, My My pattern by Reiko Kuwamura suddenly doesn’t seem like such a bad thing. I’m past the … Continue reading →

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Pima cotton, spun up

Posted on December 9, 2010 by Leslie

Having experimented with cotton solely on a Takhli spindle, I decided to try it out on a wheel. I chose the SuPima sliver from my All About Cotton Kit because it has a relatively long staple length and is therefore … Continue reading →

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Cotton

Posted on October 15, 2010 by Leslie

In my five-plus years of spinning, I’ve never worked with cotton. Dissuaded by other people who called it a difficult fibre (and my own dislike of the feeling of the cotton stuffed in pill bottles–such a dislike turns out to … Continue reading →

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