The Fleece & Wheel Handspun

A favourite knit of mine, off to Canada.

It because way too small for me so I decided to let someone else have it. The pattern is Papillon and is not size inclusive. My favourite part to knit was the neckline.

[Image description: a royal purple jumper takes up the bottom left majority of the image. It has a boat neckline and a lace pattern block down the front. You can’t see in the image but it has 3/4 sleeves.]

Some Dorsey Horn sock yarn coming to the shop soon :)

[Image description: a white persons hand clenched around some bright green hand spun yarn. There’s greens of every kind in it. In the background is a blurry white dog and a messy house.]

Handwoven bookmarks available in the shop now :) this one features hand spun wool yarn with some recycled sari silk.

[Image description: the image has a white border. It’s a closeup of a woven bookmark hanging out of the bottom of a book. You can just see the title of the book is ‘Fingersmith’. The bookmark is grey, mustard, and rainbow. It’s on a white circular table.]

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Available in the shop is this hank of nylon-free hand spun sock yarn! It’s spun from Dorset Horn top dyed in NSW by .krita - I think there’s some left in her store if you want to spin your own. It’s a hard wearing wool perfect for socks.

Website link in bio.

[Image description: a loosely wound hank of multicoloured yarn arranged in what I call a ‘cupcake’ as it looks like the icing on a cupcake. Colours include pink, brown, orange, yellow. The background is grey/white.]

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I have finally finished this scarf/wrap (finished photos to come soon). I wanted to highlight the added texture sewing in the weft threads vertically makes. I enjoy.

The new Fleece and Wheel website is on THE BRINK of existence.

[image description: there is a white border. The image inside is a close up of a woven piece of fabric still on the loom. It is blue in the right hand side and cream/white on the left hand side. You can see thickened areas where I have sewn in the warp ends.]

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I’m planning a massive destash sale on my Etsy store soon, there will be fabric, wool, batts, yarn, and this beautiful pure silk which I’m attempting to dye prettily today; if I f**k it up there will be some beautiful black silk yarn for sale 😉 help me out folks, I don’t wanna pack all my s**t up.
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We are doing adult things next week; we are meeting with a real estate agent, an accountant, and a mortgage broker. 0/10 not looking forward to being responsible. I always feel weird when meeting with Professionals, like they’ll look at me and see some weird fifteen year old child trying to act like a grown up.
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[image description: close up view of some undyed fine silk yarn on a fluorescent green umbrella swift].
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Today I’m grateful: that I seem to have grown out of my soap allergy so my hands have never been cleaner.
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[image description: close up of a white persons hands knitting something in grey wool. You can see they are wearing denim and a wedding band.]
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When I first learnt to knit many moons ago I quickly became obsessed with hand knitted socks. I have a whole Pinterest board. Anyway I tried a few times and decided I hated it but then I was like f**k you all I want to knit some socks! So I worked out it was the yarn, I don’t like commercial sock yarn 🤷🏼 so I spun my own (and now I’m never spinning any other type of yarn again). Lo and behold I enjoyed the yarn so much I finished a whole pair of socks in a matter of weeks! 10/10 would recommend spinning your own yarn for socks. I will probably do a more detailed blog post later, I’m up to my armpits in nursing study s**t.
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Yarn: handspun chained 3 ply Cheviot dyed by .krita .
Pattern: warm feet for everybody by on .ravelry .
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[image description: hairy legged white person standing on wooden steps showing off some hand knit socks in stripes of neon rainbow colours, bright pink stands out the most].
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New blog post up! It’s basically me just waxing poetic about my ripple bralette.
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Www.thefleeceandwheel.com/blog
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[image description: white person with short brown hair stands in front of a tree and blue fence. They are wearing a purple hand knitted bra and the words ‘new blog post!’ Is superimposed in white].
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New post up! All about what to do with handspun yarn. Www.thefleeceandwheel.com/blog 😬
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[image description: white persons hands spinning wool from a multicoloured braid. White text overlaid says ‘new blog post!’]
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