Tour de femme 2024 day 4

 Day four of the tour de France femme has been a good spinning day for me. I had a bit more time to do some spinning today, and half of that time seems to have been spent preparing the fleece.

I must admit that I love having these mini goals to give me the insentive to get crafting done. There are always long term projects that seem to sit to the side and not get worked on for one reason or another. The tour de fleece is always a good way for me to work through all that brown fleece I seem to have stashed away over the years.

Bishopstone yarns, sit & spin. Tour de fleece in July 2023

Come and join me as I chat about my spinning adventures in July during the tour de fleece.

Episode 39. knitting podcast

Come and join me for my latest knitting podcast.

As always I love to read your comments and here what you are making.

thanks for watching.

 

episode 38. Sit & spin

Come and join me while I enjoy some spinning and carding. Sometimes things do not turn out the way I had hoped for but I change my spinning idea and continue on.

 

sit and spin 36, hanspun yarn goals for 2023

 episode 36 of the Bishopstone yarns is now up on youtube for you to see.

I hope you enjoy spending some time with me while I sit and spin and of course have a bit of a chat.

As always I love reading your comments and hearing what you are making.

Thankyou for watching.

Bishopstone yarns podcast 31, #knittingpodcast

Episode 31 of Bishopstone yarns is now up on youtube for you to watch. I have some knitting, sewing , quilting and some finished cross stitch objects to show you.

Leave a comment as I love to hear about what you are making. Thanks for watching.

 

Hand dyed yarn

 We were lucky enough to have a few nice warm days recently so I decided to do some dyeing.  After spinning up a jumper worth of wool during July for the tour de fleece I wanted to dye up some skeins so I can get ready to start knitting Birkin sweater by Caitlin Hunter.

I had carded a brown wool fleece with a white alpaca fleece to create a brown base colour but I really didn't want another brown jumper so I decided to over dye the main body skeins with apollo bay landscape dye (blue).

I then used some other landscape colours to dye other skeins to be used in the yoke pattern.

Bishopstone yarns episode 25

 

Episode 25 of the Bishopstone yarns podcast is now up on youtube for you to watch. I hope you can join me while I chat about what I have been making, and the problems I have encountered along the way. 

Episode 24, Tour de fleece chat

Episode 24 of Bishopstone yarns is up now for you to watch. 

I have been spinning for tour de fleece and have a chat about my thoughts on my spinning so come and join me. Leave a comment and let me know what you have been making as I love to hear what everyone is up to.

 

Bishopstone yarns episode 13

 The lucky number 13th episode of Bishopstone yarns is now up on you tube.

I have been having so much fun sharing my crafting with you all. I hope you like this episode where I talk about my finished Ancient Gemstones shawl and my Ranunculus sweater. 

I also head down the rabbit hole of cross stitch. This is a craft that I started when I was about 17 and did some Danish designs but have not really done much since then. I had forgotten how much time cross stitch takes up, but having said that I am still enjoying revisiting a bit of slow stitching.

 

Bishopstone yarns podcast

 Episode 5 of Bishopstone yarns is now up on YouTube.

Come and join me while I talk knitting and share a story about one of my sentimental knits.

I would love to hear about you ideas of what I could do.

Valentine's Day knitting love

 As it is Valentine's Day here in Tasmania I thought I would share some of my wooly love. These are true love as they will keep you warm for years to come. These knits are all from my handspun wool and are also hand dyed by me.

I hope your Valentine's Day has been full of love in what ever type that is.

Plying on my electric wheel

 

I have been having fun plying on my electric wheel.  A fantastic combination of purple and grey to compliment the pure grey.  I am loving the large bobbins so I can fit the entire singles into one large skein. 

Brown spinning

 I have been working my way through a brown fleece. So nice to see the lovely variations in the colour as I spin my way through this fleece

So far I have six  skeins but there is still so much fleece to go. 

Winter dyeing

I have been in the dye shed playing with some colours to brighten up these cold winter days. Now I have to decide how I will spin this up. At first I thought I would just ply it with itself but now I am thinking about using a solid colour. It will be fun either way.