More spinning!

The wonderful Anne of the Hillsborough Yarn Company wound off my blue yarn into a cake, so now I present to you a side-by-side comparison of the yarn in hank and cake form!



I can't wait to spin this up. I just have to decide if I'm going to be a big girl and make it into socks for my loving and deserving husband, or if they'll be mine, all mine! muhahahahahah!

I also spun up a very lovely hank of yarn in worsted weight for MarisaL of Ravelry. She has a very fun yarn she wanted to trade, which is four-ply that starts off white, but one ply takes up dye at a much faster rate. Very cool stuff indeed.


I am totally in love with this yarn. One ply is long sections of grey or brown, and the other is medium-long sections of blue, green and white, alternating. Then spun up all six different combinations came together. This is the before wash picture, I'll have an after wash picture eventually. And of yourse you'll see pictures of the very cool dyed yarn, once I get it.

I'm definitely going to have to try my hand at making this yarn again, though.



Yes Mom, I have been working on your spinning. In fact, the bulky bobbin is almost full! I'm really liking how it's turning out, and used a lot of techniques for color change in the yarn for trade that I"m using in spinning up your yarn. I just want to get it done before you get up here so I can hide it! ;P

Practice

So I've been practicing spinning an aran weight single for my Mom's birthday. She needs 600 yards of aran weight for a really cute scarf.

Here's the yarn I spun up, abougt 30 yards total


Here's the scarf swatch I made. 24 stitches, with 5 stitches dropped on one end, so this is almost exactly half of the scarf. So whaddya think, Mom?


hm, I probably shouldn't have folded it. . .

Satisfaction

To me, satisfaction is when something great and worthwhile is accomplished. For the month of January, my goal (other than surviving "warrior month" at the dojo) was to spin sock weight yarn. Not light worsted that will do for socks. I'm talking sock yarn. So, inspired by the Yarn Harlot, I took some black, blue and white roving, split it, weighed it and spun it into singles, which were then plied.

It is lovely


And thin.



Mission accomplished

Spinning Every Day

A challenge set forth on the Knitty Board was to spin every day in January.

I like a challenge.

Oh, and what did I get for Christmas this year from my in-laws?

And what did I assemble on New Year's Day? (While not DMing)


Oh, and did you notice the nearly full bobbin?

I'm off to a good start.

I also got a yarn swift for Christmas from my brother and SIL, which will be incredibly useful in winding off those mammoth skeins of yarn which will be plied on the jumbo flyer.

I will also at some point probably delve into the creation of silly yarns, but for now I really just wanted it for the massive plying capability.

I also need something to measure the length of the skein. There is no way I'm counting that much all at once! I need to find a tackle place around here.