Bare foot spinning

So it's May, and it's sunny, and I have been out spinning bare foot. Life can be so wonderful :) No hurry, no worries, just fun.

This is a favorite: a light, longshafted spindle from Spindlewood, applewood. It's perfect outdoors even if it's blowing, like it's almost always doing here.

When the spindle isn't working, it lives in the whisky box thanks to Sarah.

Can you see the stone garden in the background? There are buds! And in the flower beds there are flowers.

Winter hat

This was fun to spin and knit, and may the winter come :) Kasper is not very pleased, because he's being punished by wearing my hat because he was chasing one of our cats, the old Miranda, who had to climb high up in the barn. In his eye you can see the "angry" mistress taking the photo.

I spun the yarn and knit the hat in a Spin- and Knitalong in Ravelry's Spinning in Sweden group. The fibers have been chosen and carded by Ingrid in Sweden, and came to me in a SWAP. Mohair, merino, silk, silk noils, Swedish wool, a very nice mix of fibers, easy to draft and spin on my Spindlewood into an uneven, thick yarn. I knit with needles EU 6 (US 10) in a pattern I improvised while knitting. I'm very pleased!

När man inte kan spinna 2 - When you can't spin 2

Sländspinning är kul! Inga trampor!

Min elaka vrist får vila medan den läker.

Jag har inte varit så noga med att bygga en bra cop (= resultatet av hur man lindar tråden runt skaftet), så den börjar lösa upp sig nedtill. Jag ska nu linda av tråden och börja på en ny omgång tråd, sedan tvinnar jag på en större slända. Fibrerna är en kardad blandning jag fick av Ingrid i Sverige. Mohair, lång och kort svensk ull, silkepluttar. Jag spinner ett grovt, ojämnt garn för att få fram roligheterna i fibrerna.

Sländan är från Spindlewood med trissa i olivträ och skaft av bloodwood. Den är vacker och balanserad, en mycket bra slända, en favorit.

Spindling is fun! No treadles!

My bad ankle can rest while healing.

I have not been very careful when building this cop, so it's beginning to unwind at the bottom. I will now make a ball and start a new thread, then I'll ply on a bigger spindle. The fiber is a carded mix I got from Ingrid in Sweden. Mohair, long and short Swedish wool, silknoils. I'm spinning a thick, uneven yarn so you can see the nice fibers.

The spindle is from Spindlewood, with whorl in olivetree and shaft in bloodwood. It's a beautiful and well balanced spindle, a favorite.