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Lovely and amazing.

Tuesday, April 4th, 2006

I have been secretly in love with Rachael since she knit Alice Starmore’s Cromarty in custom-dyed Koigu Kersti. She is not so secretly in love with Lala. And last night, I had the absolute pleasure of meeting them both after their wedding here in Vancouver. A lovely and amazing couple.

Also at the Sylvia Hotel reception last night were Mandy (Yarnageddon) and Janice (Rabbitch) who were the witnesses at the ceremony, Zak (Mandy’s DH), Rachael (photographer), Siew and Heather. All lovely and amazing people.

Of course, I was too shy to bring my camera, so you can go see Rabbitch’s photos here… or Rachael’s photos here…

Oh, and in case I accidentally gave anybody the impression that I spun up all the silk for the Flower Basket Shawl in one day (!)… this is the entirety of what I spun:

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Sample yardage

It’s a teeny tiny amount, but just enough to knit up a sample!

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The Good Girl

Monday, April 3rd, 2006

I went to Fibre Fest and didn’t buy anything.

Well actually, I did. I bought Michelle and Jo each a “Topknot” from Aurelia Wool & Weaving to see if it would push them over the edge and get them spinning. Heh. They both attended the drop spindle demo and then we spent much of the afternoon going from booth to booth to test the different spindles. The girls finally settled on a couple spindles made by Dave Smith/Shari Hamilton (similar to the one I bought in November at the Langley event). Michelle’s spindle is made from Jatoba. Sounds cool to me.

Over the five and a half hours that we spent shopping, I was such a good girl and didn’t buy anything. But Michelle bought me a ball of Bamboo yarn from Jane Stafford’s booth. Beautiful stuff. Laura Fry’s Weaving Studio was also offering a number of handpainted skeins of Bamboo yarn and I saw it woven up — lovely, soft and drapey fabric. And I heard it doesn’t pill!

I didn’t buy anything because, well, I have lots of stuff to play with already. So, on Sunday, I spent some quality time with my carder and some bombyx silk/merino top that I dyed a couple months ago. I’m in love with the carded batts at The Silkworker, so I decided to take my crumpled looking top and fluff it up with the drum carder.

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Breaking up the dyed roving and feeding through the carder
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Carded silk
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Fluffy silk clouds of fuschia and cherry
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Spun up sportweight sample

I took one batt, stripped it vertically a couple times and spun it up from end to end. Andean plied the whole thing and washed the yarn. By evening, it was dry enough to knit up. This is going to be yet another Flower Basket Shawl (Evelyn Clark, Interweave Knits Fall 2004). I love how it feels kind of powdery and crunchy all at the same time — like fresh snow.

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Driven by an obsessive, passionate and often tumultuous relationship with colour, Felicia Lo is the owner of SweetGeorgia Yarns, a handpainted yarn and design company based in Vancouver. Founded in 2005, SweetGeorgia Yarns is about intense, relentless and unapologetic colour in luxurious natural fibres and textiles. She writes about all things knitting, spinning, dyeing, and weaving here at sweetgeorgia.

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