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Goldfish Love

Minnesota

Fiber junkie. Spinner. Fish-keeper.

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Much, much delayed - pictures of other people's stuff!

Remember back in, oh, August? When I totally promised I would have pictures of the fiber arts (AND SEED ART <3!!) from the State Fair? Yeeeeeeeeah. 6 months later I finally got all those pictures off my phone*. There's this beautiful rug - I wanna make batts inspired by this... Continue reading

Posted Feb 26, 2013 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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State Fair Preview!

Photographing fiber arts on the sly at the fair and finding some Superman Ice Cream! Always amazing things to see, lots more poorly composed pictures of awesome stuff to come. Continue reading

Posted Sep 2, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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A Short Break from Spinning-related Posts

Because I actually made something. Two really, but I gave up the knit version before I even took pictures. Rookie mistake. Simple crochet, with one skein of sock yarn held double and two skeins of art yarn for the lengthwise scarf. I love it, and just need to find somewhere... Continue reading

Posted Jul 21, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Spinning for Tour de Fleece: Studies in Scale

If you're in the group of spinners who haven't been playing along, we're 15 days into the Tour de France, fêted among spinners by commiting to spin (and often watch the race) every day the cyclists ride under the moniker "Tour de Fleece". I've been taking advantage of the project... Continue reading

Posted Jul 15, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Lots and lots of spinning underway for the Tour! Just a bit of yarn porn - some finished skeins and the gorgeous cormo from Strawberry Moon that is coming up next. Continue reading

Posted Jul 8, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Color Study: Part 2

Last year I spun up a cormo-alpaca blend in three natural shades of grey and brown, and plied them together. These knit up to a nice tweed effect in the final fabric. So with the modified chain ply on BFL, and this 3-ply faux tweed on the brain, I set... Continue reading

Posted Jul 2, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Color study part 1 - love(1)

I saw someone describing this variation on chain plying on Ravelry and had to see how it worked. From two singles, chain one strand and carry the other along like a regular two ply. Alternate which strand is forming the chain. The color blending that results just stunned me on... Continue reading

Posted Jul 1, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Spinning for Texture

Three ounces or more in, and there's still lots of room for more. Local dark silver coarse mohair, Iowa teeswater locks, and silky silver Wensleydale. The singles have a personality, but I can't really tell what they want next. Thread ply? Chain ply? Pair them up with contrasting locks? Shock... Continue reading

Posted Jun 30, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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The super giant, unreasonably big flyer for my wheel is here and I can't stop playing. The whole scrap bin is getting roughly carded together for big core spun yarn. Love (1) for this thing. I think some hairy Icelandic tailspun is in my sights next... Continue reading

Posted Jun 26, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Setting up shop in Anoka

If you haven't been yarn hunting in Anoka, there's a sweet yarn shop just off Main Street - The Shepherdess (aka Shepherd's Choice). And if you can make it past the gorgeous collection of yarns downstairs, they've added a co-op space for fiber artists upstairs. Wheels, looms, local alpaca and... Continue reading

Posted Jun 23, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Getting ready for Shepherd's Harvest!

The house definitely smells like pickled sheep, what with all the hiding from my day job and sitting home dying kettle after kettle of yarn. I seem to be completely obsessed with orange/chartreuse combinations. Nothing really exciting to say about it, other than really having fun pouring colors over everything... Continue reading

Posted Apr 25, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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I actually knit something.

Maybe it's the recent fever. Or maybe a big fresh pile of squishy dyed yarn I needed to test out. But I can, in fact, still knit it seems. A big, chunky, quick and easy cowl that I knocked out in just a day. Now I just need to figure... Continue reading

Posted Feb 19, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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HOTTEA Around Town

I've lost track of the times I've been asked "so, I mean, what do you do with it?" In some ways it's the obvious question - I'm making yarn, and yarn is largely defined by its purpose as a craft supply, a means to artisan knitting or crochet or weaving... Continue reading

Posted Feb 4, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Yarn porn on a snowy day

Some favorites I'm missing since they left my stash. Big white longwool locks shot through with Christmas tinsel and red and black threads. I love the bulk and drama out of that basic combination. Scary Clownpants colorway on the right. My sweet Helga mohair fleece got all dyed up and... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Some cheery colors for 2012

All this time not posting, but new things are afoot nonetheless. Wool and silk are draped all over the place. Festive holiday garlands to welcome the new year. Back to washing and rinsing and spinning for me. Continue reading

Posted Jan 2, 2012 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Buttoned Up & Other Yarn Pictures

Buttoned Up, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. I've been busily dying all week, but still had enough time to get some more yarn spun up and plied. This sweet little thing is a tweedy longwool base, loaded with buttons pulled out at random and strung on bright red cotton.... Continue reading

Posted Feb 25, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Three Irish Girls Sweater

Handspun and Three Irish Girls Sweater, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. Yes, there is a sweater. An actual, finished, I-even-wove-in-the-ends-you-can-see-mostly sweater. Probably just in time, since there was a serious threat of harm if said sweater were not completed in a pretty way. The pattern is Francis, Revisited by... Continue reading

Posted Feb 14, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Not Too Girly, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. Awww, Gus. Poor guy's fiber got dyed up hot pink and sparkly. Gus is a suri alpaca, whose fiber is spun up loose and lofty and drapey. It halos, it will pill a bit, it will stretch if knit loosely, and... Continue reading

Posted Feb 11, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Tweedy and blue today

Tweedy1, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. The last few days have not yielded much photogenic spinning, but a pile of yarns did go out for a photoshoot today. This tweedy number is a basic thick and thin yarn, plied with thread. The fiber though, that is decadent. A basic... Continue reading

Posted Feb 10, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Three Irish Girls at Darn Knit Anyway

Tablescape, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. The perfect place-setting! DKA project bags, chocolate candy, and a surprise sample of 3IG mini skeins all waiting... Darn Knit Anyway is my favorite not-very-local yarn store. I mean, I am in South Minneapolis, so pretty much anything that I cannot reach on... Continue reading

Posted Feb 1, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Bulky and Bulkier

Blue Whale, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. Blue Whale: mixed wools and a touch of bright orange bamboo, plied with thread. Just for the sake of fun and pretty handspun. The last week has seen some dutiful photo-taking of yarns that have been hanging around made and unloved.* About... Continue reading

Posted Jan 27, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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The Shearling Project

Shearling Bobbin Progress, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. Locks, locks, and even more locks. BFL lamb curlicues and big glossy chunks of mohair. This is really why I adore buying whole fleeces. Every last one of them is a little different. Little spring-curls from the Blue Faced Leicester lambs... Continue reading

Posted Jan 23, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Sea Slug and other cabling experiments

Sea Slug, originally uploaded by Goldfish Love Fibers. Other than a few runs at cabling to see how it works as a plying technique, I hadn't spent much time exploring cables. As an art yarn technique, it has some interesting possibilities. With multiple colors of singles held together, you can... Continue reading

Posted Jan 19, 2011 at Goldfish Love Fibers

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Goldfish Love is now following REUBEN

Jan 18, 2011

Goldfish Love is now following amberdawn

Jan 18, 2011

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