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.

A jumper for my husband

 I have finally finished my husbands jumper. This is only the third jumper I have knitted him in the 24 or so years we have been together.  It also took three goes at knitting it to finally have a finished jumper. In the first attempt I was following a pattern I had bought from the local department store ( maybe my first mistake) . I didn't have many men's jumper patterns at home and so I bought this one with my husband.

It had saddle shoulders, ribbed arms and a panel of rib on both sides. But when I finished it it  not fit. As it was a pieced garment I couldn't try it on as I went.

The sleeves were far too long, and there was too much fabric across the chest/ underarm area.

 

 I frogged the arms back and changed them to set in sleeves but even though they now fit the problem of too much fabric on the chest still remained so I decided to just frog the entire jumper and start again.

This time I decided to go with a top up yoked jumper knit in the round. A construction style I am very familiar with and one I could try on him as I went.

bishopstone yarns, knitting and craft episode 37

Episode 37 of Bishopstone yarns podcast is now up on you tube for you to watch. I have a been getting into knitting for others in my family and have started the year with some knitting mojo.

I hope you enjoy the video, and 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.

Episode 27

 Episode 27 of the Bishopstoneyarns podcast is now up on youtube.

I talk about my latest dyeing.  Some sock knitting and my danish shawl.

There is also some quilting and cross stitch progress as well.

Bishopstone Yarns episode 11, knitting and sewing

 

Episode 11 of the Bishopstone yarns podcast is now up on youtube. I would love to see you in my corner of my studio for  chat about what I have been making in the last few weeks. I have bee knitting, and frogging my Ancient gemstones shawl. And reknitting so I am getting closer to the end. Then I hope to finish my ranunculus sweater.

Bishopstone yarns podcast episode 10

 Bishopsyone yarns episode 10 is now up on youtube.  I hope you we ill join me to see what I have been making.

Episode 10 of Bishopstone yarns podast is now up on youtube. I chat about what I have been making in the past few weeks. Sometimes it is knitting, sometimes spinning or sewing. I might even get around to doing some more weaving. I would love to see you and please leave a comment as I love to hear what everyone else is making.

I have just created a new group on Ravelry called Bishopstone yarns podcast, so if you are on Ravelry why not pop over to the group for a chat. I would love to hear from you and what you have been making.

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.

Bishopstone yarns new podcast

 I have finally decided to start a podcast where I can talk about all the fibre related things that I am making and doing. I would love for you to come over and have a look and join me on my journey.

You can find me on youtube as  Bishopstone yarns.

Leave a comment, tell me what you think.

I look forward to seeing you soon.