Posts filed under 'Spinning'
My friend Laura was so nice and let me use her bathtub to wash my latest wool fleece.
Latest as in, I bought it two years ago. Lazy hippie! But hey, at least I’m finally getting to it. I’m planning on spinning it up first and then dyeing it afterward.
While the fleece soaked I mended a pair of pants for Laura. Then I attached some new clasps on my Arwen sweater.
I bought these pretty clasps on Etsy. Proper pics to come soon.
I brought Sieben along because he gets along with Laura’s dogs, especially her dog Bobo.
He had a fun time and so did I.
August 3rd, 2010
I’ve finished spinning Abbey’s yarn scraps into Chaos Yarn.
There’s 104 yards for her to play with.
A close-up:
I feel like I’m getting the hang of spinning yarn scraps.
July 28th, 2010
I’ve spun up my first thick and thin yarn. The roving is a wool and silk mix from Looking Glass Yarns.
I have 80 yards.
Spinning thick and thin is not easy. I found it tricky but maybe that was because I was also spinning a silk blend for the first time.
I’ve crocheted this up into an ice chain for The Portal waterfall.
July 25th, 2010
After seeing my latest Chaos yarn, Abbey asked me to spin up her yarn scraps. She is bribing me with homemade cookies.
I’ve been doing a lot of spinning lately! I think I’ll ask her for another batch of chocolate chip cookies.
July 10th, 2010
I finished spinning up my latest batch of Chaos Yarn. I have 206 yards this time.
I spun up the scraps into a single and then plyed it with some thin Peruvian yarn some friends brought me back from their vacation.
A close up:
Lori from the Yarn Shop saved up a lot of yarn scraps from the store. That really helped with the yardage and variegation.
I’m thinking of knitting up a funky bag with the yarn.
Here’s Prana posing with the yarn scraps that Lori gave me.
June 28th, 2010
Normally I don’t name my yarns but this one became named as soon as I took it off the niddy-noddy. It’s called Stop The World I Wanna Get Off.
Early this spring I was feeling overwhelmed. I just wanted to spin but I had a shitload of deadlines. I finally said fuck it, poured myself a glass of wine and started spinning some roving I bought from the Taos Wool Festival.
“Stop The World I Wanna Get Off” was exactly how I was feeling at the time. At first I was trying to spin thin but the wine and my fuck it mood took the wool in another direction. I just had fun with the yarn and it got funky.
A close-up:
Prana was napping nearby:
There’s only 52 yards of this yarn. I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. Maybe save it for an art project?
Here’s a pic of the roving.
It’s West by Southwest handpainted wool roving and I bought it at the Taos Wool Festival in 2009. It was 4 oz. I plied it with some purple yarn in my stash.
June 18th, 2010
I finished up spinning my periwinkle roving from Lonesome Stone.
A pound of fiber turned into 420 yards of 2 ply.
A close up:
I’m pretty happy with it. I’m going to spin up my other Lonesome Stone roving and hope to have enough of both for a sweater.
Prana’s happy we’re back.
June 6th, 2010
A gang of us met at El Gamal for lunch and knitting.
I had heard good reviews of their food. I had an eggplant sandwich, a side of baba ganoush and a drink of lemonade with mint. Inspired by Ellen’s great restaurant reviews I took a picture of my meal.
It was delicious and I look forward to trying more of their menu.
Meredith and Abbey posed for a pic.
Laura joined us too but I didn’t get a picture of her. The four of us had a lovely lunch.
Meredith brought along some of her spinning. Isn’t it lovely?
May 23rd, 2010
I have four skeins of Chaos Yarn spun up and there’s still some yarn scraps left. I think I’ll have enough for two more skeins.
It’s tricky to spin but the end result is groovy.
Prana was being cuddly.
Can you believe this cuteness brought me a dead mouse the other day?
May 17th, 2010
I’ve been saving up yarn and fleece scraps for about a year. Spinning up this yarn is quite messy.
While spinning bits of yarn often fly up in to the air. Prana seems entertained by it.
So far I have about eighty yards and the bag is still half full. I hope I have enough for a funky bag.
April 24th, 2010
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