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Tag Archives: rake loom
Aunt Geri has been busy!
Today I get to show off some of Aunt Geri’s yarn. She has refined her cabled and multi-ply yarn techniques into a fine art. Her two newest yarns used alpaca fiber from Loredo, a friend’s alpaca (the one with sort … Continue reading
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Tagged art yarn, beaded yarn, gold seed beads, handspinning, handspun yarn, knit scarves, knitting, rake loom, scarves
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Sparkly scarves!
Thank goodness I’m not the only crafter in the family! Mom, who knits using a rake loom, has been busy. She knit this pile of sparkles using one strand of handspun suri alpaca yarn (that’s the gray) and one strand of blue … Continue reading
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Tagged art yarn, artist show, handspun yarn, knitting, loom knitting, rake loom, scarf, scarves, suri alpaca, yarn
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To block or not to block, that is the question
Poor Hamlet, always getting his soliloquy wantonly garbled by bloggers. Mmmmm, wontons. Anyway, this weekend I spun 50 more yards of my deep roots yarn and finished the hat for my climbing friend. And it looks nothing like a dead … Continue reading
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Tagged hand spinning, hand spun, hand spun yarn, hats, knitting, rake loom, yarn
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Rake looms: knitting for beginners/the lazy
I’ve been making all sorts of crafty confessions lately. Here’s another: I knit on a rake loom. It’s not that I can’t use knitting needles, I’ve done it that way too, it’s just that for a standard double or single … Continue reading