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january handspun
January 20, 2011
Up in the attic there are two LARGE boxes of spinning fibre, all bought while I was in graduate school in the States and could order stuff online with my bank card (!) and not have to pay cross-border shipping and, of course, when I didn’t actually own a spinning wheel (oops). Now that I do have a wheel, I’m trying to get the lot of it spun up and knit into publishable designs so that I can justify buying a whole lot more.
This month’s finished handspun comes to you courtesy of FC Barcelona, during whose matches Lemmy and I spin upstairs in the tee vee room, and courtesy of the Letter X for xmas holiday which allowed me to get a bit of spinning in while the family was here, because it was vacation time anyway (there’s some internal guilt going on here about time spent spinning rather than doing other work related things). Ahem.
January’s yarn is a blend of five fibres:
Bottom: green merino roving purchased from Shepherd’s Corner at SAFF thanks to the champion enabling of one Little Miss Drama Pants
Middle: merino/alpaca blend, also bought at SAFF and split with LMDP (proving I can enable right back)
Top: Brown Sheep wool roving (colour: oregano) from Sheep Shed Studio.
The resulting singles looked like this:
The second set of singles were made up of the same three fibres plus two more:
Bottom: more Brown Sheep wool roving, in brown
Top: something (merino?) given to me by Hockey Mom, dyed yellow by her
The resulting singles looked like this:
All plied together they became this, 961 metres of 12wpi two-ply. A lovely olive green range with bits of yellow throughout. The yellow is definitely what makes this yarn shine. This should yield a decent sized project, eh?
Posted by jodi on January 20, 2011 at 10.57am
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Comments on "january handspun"
Sexeh! And it looks great on that wood-cut. I’ll send wool and fiber-y things. Let me be your State-side personal shopper :)
Posted by Stacie on January 20, 2011 at 11.19am :: link
Beautiful! That’s a lot of yarn! And yes, the woodcut is beyond words. I love the lacy look to it – I hope your hands and wrists survived.
See you soon?
Posted by Sandy on January 20, 2011 at 12.13pm :: link
What are you doing to me?! Knitting is such a gateway craft.
Posted by Naomi on January 20, 2011 at 1.00pm :: link
Great yarn. Love the depth in the first one with all the different shades of green in it.
Any plans for the new yarn, or will they marinate in the stash to “mature”?
Posted by AmyP on January 21, 2011 at 4.43pm :: link
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