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Maria McGerty 🏳️‍🌈🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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Neurodiverse fruitloop, spinner, weaver and all-around crochet geek. Books are my best friends. They are a place of safety and happiness.
Owned by 2 cats, Orm and Arvid
🌈 based in S.Wales UK 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁷󠁬󠁳󠁿
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A rainbow crochet shawl that i handspun the yarn for. Pattern is by annie crochet design and the fibre is from Hilltop Cloud.
Rainbow coloured handspun crochet shawl set against a black background
June 15, 2025 at 5:41 AM
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Thank you @mxfrankduffy.bsky.social for my t-shirt order. I am totally enamoured with my crows 😁
A photo of a person wearing a blue t-shirt with a crow motif created by Frank Duffy reflected in a mirror. The background of the mirror photo graph is a bathroom.
June 5, 2025 at 3:13 PM
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June 1, 2025 at 9:39 PM
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Pictures of my finished pink crochet projects, using my handspun yarn. #handspun #spinning
#crochet #crochetproject #crochetwip
Crocheted hat with ears using pink handspun yarn set against a black background Picture shows a pair of crocheted socks, a pair of crocheted hand mittens, a crocheted hat with bunny ears and a ball of two skeins of plyed wool. All of the wool and crocheted projects are made with pink handspun wool. All set against a black background A pair of granny square crocheted socks. The socks are made with a pink handspun wool. The socks are set against a black background
May 26, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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Crocheted squares motifs using the recently handspun pink and mixed coloured wool.
#crochet ##crochetwip #crochetproject
Two handspun pink crochet motifs. The motifs are crocheted in two different granny square patterns. All set against a black background. Eight pink handspun crochet motifs set on a black background
May 20, 2025 at 9:03 PM
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A little bit of crochet done with the Chaffinch coloured yarn
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A pink, grey and black yarn, coloured crocheted motif set against a back background
May 20, 2025 at 8:53 PM
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My spinning project over the last 2 weeks has been spinning up 700g of pink fibre ready for another crochet project. I bought this fibre at Wonderwool Wales this year, at the John Arbon stall.
#spinning ##spinningwip
A hank of mostly pink fibre, there is also white, yellow, and green fibre shot through the pink, set against a cream background. A bobbin full of mainly pink handspun fibre shown still on the spinning wheel flyer. The pink spun fibre has blue, yellow and white shot though it. The background behind the wheel is an orange carpet. Nine skeins of the handspun pink mix yarn set against a black background Close up of the pink coloured mix handspun skeins
May 14, 2025 at 5:12 PM
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I am working on the alpaca fleece. I have one fleece carded and put in paper bags. I have started carding the second of the brown fleeces. Now I have 4 bags ready to use. I have test spun a bit. I am overspending it a bit but it is nice to spin, just dusty, even after washing.
#spinning #alpaca
Four paper bags filled with carded brown fleece set against an orange carpet One bobbin with some brown handspun alpaca on it set against a black background. The handspun brown yarn looks a little dusty.
May 14, 2025 at 4:51 PM
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New crochet project using yarn from @mothyandthesquid.bsky.social . The name of this colourway is Chaffinch from the British birds collection. The yarn is a 75% Bluefaced Leicester 25% nylon mix.
Two skeins of pink, white, grey and black coloured yarn. In the picture, one skein is loosely skeined and one skein is tightly skeined in a plait type of effect.
May 14, 2025 at 4:36 PM
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I have been carding and spinning some cream Hill Radnor wool and some dark brown Black Welsh Mountain wool this week. Part of an ongoing project that was put on hold while more wool came available. Now to get some work done on the piece. #spinning #crochet #handspun #hillradnor #blackwelshmountain
One 100g hank of unpun cream coloured Hill Radnor wool and one 100g hank of unspun dark brown Black Welsh Mountain wool, all set against a black background Two handspun skeins of mixed cream Hill Radnor wool and dark brown Black Welsh Mountain wool, set against a black background
April 27, 2025 at 6:02 PM
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I might have gone to a wool show today and bought a lot of fibres to spin. Well, it would be rude not to 😆
Great day out at Wonderwool Wales in Builth Wells, lots of lovely fibres, hand dyed yarns, lovely people and many other things 😊
#spinning #wonderwoolwales #unspunfibre
A selection of different coloured unspun fibres in various colours spread out on a black blanket and one wooden pick up stick, two small wooden weaving sticks and a booklet about the wool show
April 27, 2025 at 5:55 PM
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I see a Swan 🙂. Sadly, I don't have a banana bird, so I will share my lambanana with you 😄
A sculpture of a bright yellow lamb banana set against a black background
April 22, 2025 at 3:32 PM
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Gallstones suck 😕. Finally, I finished this piece. A friend asked me to make this top and supplied the yarn. The pattern is from Doris Chan's book Convertable Crochet. The colour of the top is more of a rich forest green colour. The photographs don't show the colour well. #crochet
Green crochet top on a model dummy. The dummy is wearing a black top and skirt under the green crochet top. All set against a dusky pink curtain. Green crochet top set against a black background
April 20, 2025 at 9:44 PM
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Been a busy week, I have managed to pick the best bits of the alpaca fleeces. I have scoured & dried two outside in the sun. I am combing the first one & picking through the third atm. This fleece is so glorious. #alpaca #fleece
Unwashed brown alpaca fleece in my hand. The fleece is in a brown box Washed white alpaca fleece drying in the sun on an old white curtain in the garden
April 11, 2025 at 8:26 PM
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Yesterday I was very lucky to be given 3 big bags of alpaca fleece. All unwashed, so today I washed the first of the fleeces, thankfully it was a lovely day
#alpacafleece #spinning
A box of brown unwashed alpaca wool and a grey teug of creamy white unwashed alpaca wool against a pink coloured tiles floor A shot of brown alpaca washed fibre drying on tables in the garden on a blue sky day
April 6, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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I've been making rolags of Black Welsh Mountain wool & Hill Radnor wool to spin. I bought this wool late last year to finish a project from earlier in the year. I have been waiting for the availability of this wool & for building work at the house to be finished so that I can resume this project.
One bundle of hill Radnor wool (the white fibre) a bundle of Black Welsh Mountain wool (the brown fibre) and a bag with mixed white and brown wool rolags spilling out. All set on a black background A bobbin of mixed Black Welsh Mountain wool and Hill Radnor wool (showing a strippy dark brown and white wool). The bobbin is on the spinning wheel flyer. The background is mixed orange carpet and cream brown leopard print blanket.
April 6, 2025 at 9:53 PM
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Been a while, I have done a few things this week. I made another blue bunny hat for a friend's granddaughter. I also made a hat and gloves from a double-stranded variegated yarn
A pair of fingerless mittens and a hat made from a purple variegated yarn, all set against a black background
April 6, 2025 at 9:23 PM
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Finished the handspun Earth colourway project.
A hooded granny square jumper for those colder nights
#handspun #spinning #crochet #crochetproject #crochetwip
Front view of a hundspun crocheted granny square jumper. The jumper shown on a mannequin wearing a black skirt against a pink curtain background is a mix of yellow, purple and green yarn. Back view of a hundspun crocheted granny square jumper. The jumper shown on a mannequin wearing a black skirt against a pink curtain background is a mix of yellow, purple and green yarn. Side view of a hundspun crocheted granny square jumper. The jumper shown on a mannequin wearing a black skirt against a pink curtain background is a mix of yellow, purple and green yarn.
March 30, 2025 at 10:52 AM
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My daughter-in-law asked me to make my grandson a bonnet type hat with bunny ears. I think it worked out well 😊. The pattern is available on the leftinknots website.
#crochet #crochetwip #crochetproject
Picture of man holding baby, the baby is wearing a light blue crocheted bunny ears hat. The faces of the man and baby are replaced with a smiley emoji.
March 22, 2025 at 8:52 PM
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It's been another week of stuff going on in the background 🤦‍♀️. I did get a little bit of spinning and plying done on my Earth colourway project
#spinning #handspun
A bundle of purple green and yellow striped fibre, 4 big skeins and one ball of purple green and yellow handspun and plied yarn all set against a black background
March 22, 2025 at 8:42 PM
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I have more Earth colourway fibre from worldofwoolteam. I have already spun, plied and skeined up my first two hanks of yarn. #handspun #spinning
Two skeins of handspun plied yellow, green, purple wool and a bundle of unspun yellow, purple and green fibre all against a black background
March 18, 2025 at 4:50 PM
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Been a busy few days. During which time I finished this piece. The pattern is called Zodiac tunic by Doris Chan in the book Convertible Crochet. #crochet #crochetwip #crochetpattern
The front view of a handmade pink and cream coloured crocheted top layered over a black top and skirt set against a blue and colourful curtain. The rear view of a handmade pink and cream coloured crocheted top layered over a black top and skirt set against a blue and colourful curtain.
March 18, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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All the motifs are joined, next job connecting the front to the back. Oh, and weaving in dozens of tails 🤦‍♀️
A hand washing and blocking and this piece will be finished 😁
#crochet #crochetwip
Cream and pinky white crochet motifs sewn together to make a rectilinear shape with a circular cut out in the centre. All set against a black background.
March 13, 2025 at 10:11 PM
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Some of the Earth colourway fibre came yesterday and so I spun it today. Still more fibre needed 😁. Actually, I always need fibre 🤣🤣🤣
#handspun #handspinning #handspunproject
A 100g yellow,purple and green wrapped ball of fibre set against a black background Two bobbins with handspun singles of yellow green and purple fibre, set against a black background
March 11, 2025 at 9:15 PM
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A quick update on the crochet project. I have made more motifs. Another five and then the joining starts. #crochet #crochetwip #crochetproject
13 crochet motifs arranged in a square type pattern on a black background. Nine of the motifs are pink and white in colour. Two of the motifs are cream in colour and two of the motifs have a cream centre and a pink and white edge.
March 10, 2025 at 11:50 PM