Crafting Chaos

Sari Silk yarn

I have been wanting Sari Silk yarn for awhile. But I’ve been on a yarn budget so haven’t made any purchases lately. But I came into an unexpected trade:

Lori from the Taos Yarn Shop traded me two skeins for some Rowan Kidsilk Haze that I had. I’m not sure about the brand name because they didn’t have tags.

I just love this yarn! It’s so beautiful.

I have about 200 yards and am thinking of making a purse.

1 comment August 20th, 2010

New yarn!

Abbey gave me some new yarn. Yay!

It’s so soft and pretty.

I have 178 yards of handspun alpaca yarn.

Abbey got the yarn from the Yarn Lounge while she was on vacation in Richmond.

Here’s a cute bird hanging out on Thebes’ antennae.

Prana brought in a half dead bird to play with the other day. We woke up at 4am to squeaking under the bed. Thebes’ used the bb gun to put it out of it’s misery and I threw it outside. Cats are such killers. Cute, adorable, fuzzy little killers.

Add comment August 12th, 2010

Yada Yada Yarn

While in Silver City Thebes and I stopped at the local yarn store Yada Yada Yarn.

This was a nice store and they had great customer service.

I bought some Noro lace yarn. What will I make with it? I have no clue. But Noro lace yarn? I had to have it in my stash.

If you visit Silver City definitely check them out.

Add comment July 29th, 2010

Chaos yarn for Abbey

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.

1 comment July 28th, 2010

First thick and thin yarn

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.

1 comment July 25th, 2010

New Chaos Yarn

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.

1 comment June 28th, 2010

Wine yarn

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.

3 comments June 18th, 2010

Blue alpaca yarn

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.

Add comment June 6th, 2010

Abbey’s present

Abbey and I had a girls’ day last weekend and exchanged holiday presents. Here’s what I gave her.

These two skeins are 226 yards total and are a wool/silk blend.

I bought 4 ounces of handpainted roving from Fiber Fanatic Roving at this year’s Wool Fest. I plied it with some silk yarn Abbey gave me for my birthday.

Here’s the roving:

And here’s some of the yarn on my wheel:

Last year I spun her almost 400 yards. Somehow I thought I had 16 oz of this roving. But double checking the tag I only bought 4.

I found a wool scarf at the local free pile that I frogged for the yarn. It was single ply and had a nice orange/pink/yellow variegation to it. I plied it up with the silk yarn to make two more skeins.

These two skeins are 200 yards total and are also a wool/silk blend.

She liked the yarn! Next up is her present and our adventure at the movie theater.

Add comment December 14th, 2009

More blue yarn

I’m working on my woven piece for next year’s Beyond The Fringe. It’s going to be a long narrow strip with felt and needlework on top. I wasn’t sure if I’d have enough blue yarn so I recently spun up more.

This is stash yarn that I plied together. These two skeins are a little over 250 yards.

2 comments November 23rd, 2009