Margaret Miller

Three beanies and a cowl are some of my recent finished objects. All handspun using various textual techniques. The cowl is a crepe yarn from hand dyed tops. The mauve and white started life as two normal singles then I added tufts of colour during plying and then I chain plied it all again. The bluish beanie is a chained thick and thin. The sunburned one is s cable yarn. They're all lovely and soft as Australian superfine merino is and they've been wonderful to work with.

I love the whole notion of postmodern learning - sometimes described as random and nomadic - so to celebrate I'm sharing with you today's find. It's a very quick beanie/hat and if I end up making it I'll even learn to make bobbles. Finally. Funny thing though, I'm not too sure if I like them here. Any thoughts?

First Father Doll , originally uploaded by Hypatia2 . Finally I've finished. I began this little doll seven years ago (obviously when I had more time) and now he's finished. There is a mother, son, daughter and baby to go! If history is repeating, that will just about see me out of this life! The body is made from 12 ply commercial yarn - too long ago to remember what (if I even knew then). The hair looked like 5 ply Bendigo Yarn and the coat has been handspun from 4 separate colours which has produced a surprisingly rick optical brown. The individual colours were: lime green, orange, purple and a dark pink. I am very pleased with the result, although it was a complete surprise. Hmmm, I should try to get another photo without the ugly pool thingy in it just behind his shoulder. How I long for my beautiful film SLR camera where I could see exactly what was in the picture.