RootedFibers

Oona’s knitted cardigan is finished 🌷 I am so pleased. knitted from beautiful british wool and my handspun yarn.. soft, warm and sustainable.
I designed the colourwork myself and the pattern is based on the ‘max baby cardigan’ via Marianna’s lazy days. A lovely little free pattern 😊

I was hoping to get some better photographs to share with you (i.e not in a car park 😛), but the weather has been grey, miserable and ever so windy so we have been mostly indoors. Hopefully the sun will shine upon us a little in the coming weeks 🙏

I am one step forwards two steps back with this knit and do you know why?
Because I have an aversion to a measuring tape 🫣 It really shouldn’t be this hard, I have redone the sleeves twice and they are still too short, I also knit the body too short, turns out a tape measure is far more accurate than my eye 🤪 After it’s rather lengthy planning/handspinning stage it has become my ‘ahhhh my baby won’t sleep and I need a relaxing evening’ kinda knit and the tape measure would have clearly killed the vibe. 🤡 Why am I like this.
Silver lining is that I knit the colourwork wrong on the bottom so at least being forced into correcting it means that it won’t ni**le me anymore.. It’s a shame because I have put a lot of work into creating this design, spinning the yarn etc etc and I really have enjoyed and savoured each bit, however, I’m beginning to feel a little… itchy.. for a new project. Do you ever feel itchy towards the end of a long project, ready for something fresh? I think redoing fuels this feeling in me, it’s so much harder to go backwards huh!?

Anywho, I will hopefully have this finished cardigan ready to flaunt on my gorgeous Oona at some point next week. Thank you for all your kind words towards this knit, it’s been so encouraging and humbling and just delightful, your all wonderful 🥰 🧶

Pattern is based on pattern Max Baby Cardigan by mariannas lazy days including my own floral handspun design. Yarn is a mixture of my hand dyed/spun and British wool by (if you see this please remind me what this neppy yarn is, it’s beyond gorgeous!) 🥰

This is my current therapy, scrappy slow relaxing woollen spins. I always save my scraps for a few reasons…

1) The symbolism of scraps. The threads hold life force, they hold such significance across all cultures (another post for another time.) it is a powerful and beautiful ritual to reuse scraps and the energy they contain. There’s a reason my soul cannot bare to part with my scraps and I believe this is why.

2) I love the aesthetic! It adds a little bit of fibrey funk and the result is totally unique to you!

3) I hate waste. I could never work in fast fashion because waste makes me feel physically sick. Why throw it away when it can be remade into something unique and beautiful.

These particular yarns are carded with scraps from my weaving projects, all of which went out into the world so this is my chance to spin the essence of those into something of my own. I’m not sure what they will be yet, I’m spinning different colours that when put together will gradient quite nicely. I was thinking I could put together a couple little packs of mini skeins however, each skein takes me anywhere between 9 to 11 hours from start to finish.. so there is the issue of pricing in my mind... 🤪 If you are interested do let me know, and I shall dwell further on this 😊

Hope your all having a lovely weekend 🤍

New spinning companion alert!! 🚨
Baby Oona is here, she was born 2 weeks ago and we already can’t remember life without her in it 🥰

The birth was crazy beautifully and overwhelmingly wonderfully bizzaire and magical.. how does one possibly describe such an experience!? In other words, my dream birth came true (minus my early Labour activities and dance Party - as I tried to sleep through my labour only to be forced out of bed and birthing a baby 2 hours later 🤪) I did however manage a completely natural home birth surrounded by my dearest friends and partner and was lucky enough to need no stitches or pain relief, so it couldn’t have gone much better, hooray for life!

I’m taking it very slow and gently healing, Thankyou for all your lovely kind words, I have been baby spamming my stories and can’t say it’s gunna stop anytime soon…😅 I am feeling good, soaking in the sleepy clingy baby phase to the fullest before she ‘wakes’ and sooo excited for this next chapter!

I may not be creating to sell for the time being but I will absolutely be creating, slowly.. when I can, whatever that may look like 😅 First up is some scrappy long draw yarns!! Big love fibre friends 🧶