Category Archives: Fiber

A Blue Ribbon Month

Posted on October 25, 2022 by silvergrrl

October has been a crazy kind of month. Both the South Carolina State Fair and the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair (SAFF) occur in October, and as in past years I was involved with both. For the SC State Fair, I … Continue reading →

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Spinning Samples

Posted on January 24, 2021 by silvergrrl

One of the challenges in spinning for a specific project is getting the yarn I want. Part of this is getting the correct diameter in a consistent way from start to finish, so that my final plied yarn comes out … Continue reading →

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Creative Play for the New Year

Posted on December 30, 2020 by silvergrrl

Color and texture are my primary loves in all my creative endeavors. So I was completely captivated a while back when I ran across a little book called Stitch Alchemy: Combining Fabric + Paper for Mixed Media Arts by Kelli … Continue reading →

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Wow. 2020.

Posted on December 6, 2020 by silvergrrl

It’s been quite the year, hasn’t it? I realize that I’m seriously behind here so this will be a catch-up post. And I promise I’ll do better in the future. I already posted about the Quarantine Lace Shawl – I … Continue reading →

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What Knitting Lace is Teaching Me

Posted on April 23, 2020 by silvergrrl

I decided last week to knit a lace shawl. Because, you know, quarantine! Here are the things I’m learning in the process: 1) I must not wait until the end of an entire repeat to count my stitches. Having to … Continue reading →

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Spinning the First SAFF Batt

Posted on December 21, 2019 by silvergrrl

It’s always such an adventure to spin a new batt. The very nature of batt creation means each one will be unique. In my last post, I mentioned the batts I got at SAFF this year. The first one I … Continue reading →

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This Year’s SAFF Loot – Spinning Fiber

Posted on December 17, 2019 by silvergrrl

As I’ve mentioned in the past, SAFF (the Southeastern Animal Fiber Fair) is hands-down my favorite place to buy fiber for spinning. The choices! The colors! And at that show, my favorite fiber vendor is the Trading Post for Fiber … Continue reading →

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Another State Fair Winner

Posted on December 16, 2019 by silvergrrl

I entered just one skein of handspun yarn in this year’s SC State Fair back in October. Yes, it’s December now, so I’m a little late with this post. It was a fractal spin of 100% bombyx silk, dyed by … Continue reading →

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Silk Hankies – Working Smarter, Not Harder

Posted on August 1, 2019 by silvergrrl

Back in 2015, when I was a new spinner, I tackled some beautiful silk hankies. They are nothing like “regular” fiber. The basic technique is to peel off one (very) thin hanky, poke a hole in the middle, and draft … Continue reading →

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The Beauty of Fractals

Posted on November 27, 2018 by silvergrrl

I am knitting a shawl for my sister out of some of my fractal-spun yarn. This is the teal and rust yarn that I spun last summer, described in post One Fractal Down, on to the Next (This would be … Continue reading →

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