Wool n' Spinning

a shared passion for handspun yarn

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This blog is dedicated to my Aunt Yvonne. My favourite crafting is my knitting and here I share my ideas, projects, pitfalls and successes. Vancouver, Canada

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  • textured yarn revisited.

    textured yarn revisited.

    For the month of February, I am focusing on my learning I experienced throughout the Christmas holidays and early New Year around textured yarns. Here is the third installment :: After tackling all of the core spinning, I decided I wanted to look at thick and thin yarns or slub yarns. Back to my wheel…

  • pom-pom magic.

    pom-pom magic.

    Over the past year or so, I’ve been steadily trying to work down my yarn stash. In some ways, it is not going well. I have accumulated yarn at every fibre event through out the past year and a half. But in other ways, it is going well because I keep banging out small projects…

  • Christmas Grape.

    Christmas Grape.

    This is another picture heavy since this time it is of Norah! Her Christmas sweater is finished just in time to wear … for next year! Hers is huge as well and while I think she will have a growth spurt before the end of December (she’s due for one), I’m not sure she will…

  • the river district toque (call for testing).

    About a year ago, when Norah was really wee, I was driving through a southern Vancouver neighbourhood called The River District and found myself dreaming about baby toques. Problem was, once I started dreaming about it, I couldn’t get it out of my head! I wiped up a couple and thought I was finished with…

  • squishy cuteness.

    Taking a little break from all of the Tour de Fleece stuff for a moment … This project is a throwback to something I finished quite a while ago. I heavily modified the pattern and my notes are in this blog post here. I knit this while pregnant with James, who at the time was…

  • Doing what we love.

    Doing what we love.

    First, I wanted to let you know April’s show has been RE-RECORDED and uploaded. I apologize for the audio problems in the original show but thank you for your support, for watching and to those who let me know! You can find the new show here.  I thought I would share with you what our family does…

  • c’est la vie.

    c’est la vie.

    This small space has been a bit quiet this past week because we have been spending a ton of time outside! The weather has been amazing and we’ve been having many play dates with friends. We have also been quite sick. I was quite poorly last week. Thankfully it passed quickly and I seem to…