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Deyaneria on November 11th, 2013

I’ve been doing a lot of spinning lately. I’ve been spinning at my Spinning Classes that I teach.      I’ve had this fiber for awhile and had previously spun up another 6 oz. The hard part was making like my beginning spinning. One finished  hand-dyed silk blank…..thinking about making this single a cool art […]

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Deyaneria on November 4th, 2013

Well it seems to have happened again…..sigh. Take a look you’ll see what I mean.     It seems that even with my measurements, adjustments and gauge swatch. I’m still creating stuff that is wayyyy tooo biiigggg!!! The bust is obviously too big. The sleeve is huge!!!!!!!! It’s got a large gap of knitting underneath […]

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Deyaneria on October 28th, 2013

I’ve finished the area with decreases from hip to waist. Since there was about a 10 inch difference between the hip and waist almost as soon as the ribbing was done I started those decreases. I had to go from 262 (131sts front and back) sts to 210)(105 sts front and back) sts at the waist so […]

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Deyaneria on October 21st, 2013

That is what I am going to call this sweater – The I think I lost my Marbles Sweater. After I finished the writing up the pattern I got started immediately. Cast on 262 stitches loosely (putting a marker at 131 stitches)  and joined in the round adding a second marker…..I know it doesn’t need […]

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Deyaneria on October 14th, 2013

Just to backtrack and set the scene.I decided it was high time I make a sweater for me that fits. Since most of my sweaters end up back in the yarn stash, this is quite a commitment for me. I’ve settled on making my own vanilla sweater pattern . I’ve been studying the greats of custom shaping […]

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Deyaneria on October 11th, 2013

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Continue reading about Fantastic Fiber Friday – Blending on a Hackle

The first thing I  decided to do was pick a yarn, needles and do a gauge swatch. I decided on a worsted weight I had about 1500 yards of Berroco ultra alpaca in my stash. I grabbed some size 7 needles and cast on 30 stitches, I tried to keep the edges from rolling so […]

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Deyaneria on October 4th, 2013

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Deyaneria on September 27th, 2013

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