Handspun yarn pics
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craftgrrlI like to spin. A lot. I haven't been spinning too much lately (no more spinning until you actually do something with that yarn, ![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
fraises!!), so I've spent the morning sorting through pictures of the yarn that I've made in the past month and a half or so.
Ripple scarf. I always start knitting new things when I'm at my sorta boyfriend's hockey games, but I never have any patterns with me, so I just end up knitting whatever memorized stitch pattern I remember first :)
AKA the "Look, ma, I actually made something with the yarn I spun!" scarf
The ripple scarf was made from approx 90-95 yards/1.1 oz of this yarn. In the photo, there's about 265 yards and 3.4 ounces or so.
I really need to take another photo of this, since it's almost finished. I'm just going to keep knitting until the yarn runs out, so far it's about 3.5 feet long, and I have at least 80 yards left.
About 250 yards/1 oz
Almost every time I spin a finer yarn, I save about 50 yards (or whatever it left over from plying it with thicker yarn). So far I have well over 2000 yards saved up, and I'm thinking about making a bunch of scarves out of it.
2.5 oz, 88 yards. Plied with black thread. I normally don't ply with thread (I prefer to spin a very fine yarn for plying) but I like the way the black looks in contrast to the BRIGHT!! colors. And I didn't have any black wool around to spin, anyways. So yay, thread!
3.9 oz, 108 yards
I usually like to take photos at pretty much every stage of the dyeing/spinning process, so here's some of those:
The split and drafted roving
On the bobbin, halfway finished spinning
The yarn
A swatch (I accidently dropped one stitch, and since i was going to frog it anyways, I figured I'd see how it looked with a bunch of dropped stitches.)
And a cat. Sitting on wool. I cannot keep this big guy away from the wool. I walked away to get a glass of water, and of course, Tyler jumps up and decides to cuddle with the wool. If I was a cat, though, I would probably be exactly like Tyler. He likes beer bottle caps (he likes to play fetch, though I must admit that I prefer the contents of the beer bottle to the actual bottle caps), high heeled shoes, wool, and he likes to sleep on my spinning wheel. Sometimes I think that I spend more time keeping cat hair away from my wool/picking cat hair off of the wool than I do dyeing/spinning the wool.
fraises!!), so I've spent the morning sorting through pictures of the yarn that I've made in the past month and a half or so. Ripple scarf. I always start knitting new things when I'm at my sorta boyfriend's hockey games, but I never have any patterns with me, so I just end up knitting whatever memorized stitch pattern I remember first :)
AKA the "Look, ma, I actually made something with the yarn I spun!" scarf
The ripple scarf was made from approx 90-95 yards/1.1 oz of this yarn. In the photo, there's about 265 yards and 3.4 ounces or so.
I really need to take another photo of this, since it's almost finished. I'm just going to keep knitting until the yarn runs out, so far it's about 3.5 feet long, and I have at least 80 yards left.
About 250 yards/1 oz
Almost every time I spin a finer yarn, I save about 50 yards (or whatever it left over from plying it with thicker yarn). So far I have well over 2000 yards saved up, and I'm thinking about making a bunch of scarves out of it.
2.5 oz, 88 yards. Plied with black thread. I normally don't ply with thread (I prefer to spin a very fine yarn for plying) but I like the way the black looks in contrast to the BRIGHT!! colors. And I didn't have any black wool around to spin, anyways. So yay, thread!
3.9 oz, 108 yards
I usually like to take photos at pretty much every stage of the dyeing/spinning process, so here's some of those:
The split and drafted roving
On the bobbin, halfway finished spinning
The yarn
A swatch (I accidently dropped one stitch, and since i was going to frog it anyways, I figured I'd see how it looked with a bunch of dropped stitches.)
And a cat. Sitting on wool. I cannot keep this big guy away from the wool. I walked away to get a glass of water, and of course, Tyler jumps up and decides to cuddle with the wool. If I was a cat, though, I would probably be exactly like Tyler. He likes beer bottle caps (he likes to play fetch, though I must admit that I prefer the contents of the beer bottle to the actual bottle caps), high heeled shoes, wool, and he likes to sleep on my spinning wheel. Sometimes I think that I spend more time keeping cat hair away from my wool/picking cat hair off of the wool than I do dyeing/spinning the wool.
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