February 8th, 2010
One of the themes at Spinnershome.net for February is Birchwood. I went right into the basket of firewood to pick up some birch and peel of the bark. I let the bark soak in water for several hours until it was nice and flexible so I could spin it.
I also went into my fiberstash and pick out everything brownish fibers.
Tussah silk, Hemp, Brown alpaca, whitefaced woodland, Manx and swaledale.
The fibers was carded into this batt
The bark was spun in as a I went along with spinning a single
And here is the finished yarn
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February 7th, 2010
A while ago I gave a donation to the Knitmore Girls podcast, this has grown to be my favorite podcast next too lime`n`violet. And as a thank you for the donation they sendt me some cool swag that I have forgotten to blog about until now 
Button, measuretape, magnet and some cards.
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February 6th, 2010
I got these from Wingham Woolwork. I really recommend ordering from them, really good prices and I got all this fibers for under 200 NOK. And the shippingcosts is not bad at all. You get excellent service and they have a good selection of different wools!
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February 5th, 2010
I got my Loopy Groupie package from the loopy ewe.
I got a cool tote, a supersweet sheepcalendar (who does not want to look at cute fibery sheep every day????), a sockpattern and a skein of Cherry Tree Hill supersock select.
And other stuff in the package that I got myself was two skeins of Cherry Tree hill supersock select semi-solids
a skein if Cascade Heritage sockyarn in <3 Orange!
And a skein of Arucania Itata that I almost cant wait to try out!
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February 4th, 2010
Breeze in Noro Kureyon sock, it will get an edging with wool-lace from Handpaintedyarn.com
A leaf patterned shalw in Evilla Melange
Citron in Malabrigo lace
And a leafy pattern in Zauber(crap)ball
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February 3rd, 2010
I have finally finished my Januarysocks in Sokker 2010 over at Ravelry. I am not happy with these, the shape and the yarn does not work well together at all.
Pattern: Traveller socks
Yarn: Trysil garn Labbetuss
Needles: 4 mm.
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February 1st, 2010
I just found out that Scout will be having calendars after all!!! So I am dowloading one from her site first thing when I update here!
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January 31st, 2010
The second theme for January at Spinnershome.net was this picture of a covered bridge. I had a hard time trying to translate this into fibers and then into yarn, but I finally made it!
The wool is brownishgrey Cheviot spun into a single with red mesh added in.
The yarn itself is the color of the brigde, and the red bows symbolise the crisscrosspattern in the sides of the bridge, Hidden love and the clothingstyle of the mid 1800s when Crinolines was used to add size to the skirts and bows were often used as decoration on dresses.
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January 28th, 2010
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January 27th, 2010
A while ago I was asked if I could spin some angorawool for a friend of mine. I have never spun pure angorafiber before so I accepted the challenge, and I got 240 grams on angora in the mail. I started spinning this in the beginning of the month and it is now done.
254 yards of DK weight.
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