Slow Spun: 2013

Welcome to Slow Spun.

Slow Spun is a Northcote based, handcraft micro-business.

I specialise in spinning and knitting luxury fibres, mostly fine merino, silk and alpaca, with the odd cashmere and mohair goat, camel and rabbit fleece for variety. Fibre is sourced mainly from regional Victoria (particularly the Euroa district) and from the North West coast of Tasmania.
Handspun wool is light, soft, airy and very very warm. It’s especially good for sensitive people who normally can’t wear wool next to their skin. Luxury fibres in particular, are soft and delightful to wear.
Slow Spun’s hats, scarves, mittens, necklaces are originally designed and completely made by hand. Inspiration for many of the designs come from traditional Norweigan motifs, but with an individual Northcote twist. They make wonderful presents! Slow Spun can also supply handspun yarn for that special project.
Slow Spun is happy to take commissions and to create work to your desires. Contact Janet on slowspun@gmail.com

Tuesday, 29 October 2013

Monday, 6 May 2013

Mittens and more

Well, I had another enjoyable and fruitful day on Saturday, 4th May 2013 at the Made In Thornbury mother's day market. Things sold, and orders taken. As usual people were fascinated by the handspinning process and I was happy sharing the spinning and knitting love. Here are a couple of photos of the stall.

Since many people were keen on the mittens I thought I'd better stir my stumps and post photographs of the different mittens I've made over the last 2 years. I'm a very lackadaisical blogger, I think because I spend so much of my working life in front of a computer. Anyway ....

The mittens I make are rarely repeated. It's one of the joys of craft (and not depending on it for a living) that whenever I'm bored by a design I can stop making it. The handspun merino wool is very light and warm, and I knit the fingerless mittens in the round using four needles. This means that there isn't an uncomfortable seam and the mittens can be easily shaped to fit snugly around the wrist and hand.