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Cosmic Dust

Cosmic Dust is my latest new pattern with beads. It’s a completely reversible skinny triangular shawl and it takes advantage of the fact that the yarn gradually changes from one colour to another. This idea was inspired by this colour-changing yarn itself. I … Continue reading

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Shirley.Brian Yarns

Do you remember that I posted last week about a trip to Merrickville? Well now I’m going to tell you what motivated the trip. Quite recently, Beckie from Unraveled in Merrickville posted some pictures to her Facebook page that had … Continue reading

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Back in July I finally finished some spinning that had been in progress for months. I spindle-spun a gradient yarn: Although I should have been working on something else entirely, the yarn captured my imagination and I had one of … Continue reading

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Saturday spinning update: gradient bliss

This week I managed to chain ply the first 3 oz braid of my gradient BFL/silk from Turtlepurl. It started out as two matching braids that can be spun into gradient yarn. I’ve chosen to chain ply each braid. I … Continue reading

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