Archive for the ‘Spinning’ Category
After finishing we really thought the sweater looked rather dull. We decided to add turquoise to brighten it up and the dye-pot was heated….
It was hard to catch the right colour with the camera. In reality it shows much, much nicer….
and the combination with the dark colour is beautiful.
Maybe the close-up will give a better impression!
After finishing my husband’s sweater, there was still a reasonable amount of yarn left.
Enough to knit something, but some colour would be nice.
I decided to rainbow dye this leftover and used turquoise / golden yellow / bright red
and a touch of black.
This blend is carded with Bleu du Maine, Alpaca, Mohair and Silk……..
The second time I carded small nests…… it feels gorgeous….
This 400 gr. will accompony me wherever I go, together with my Rose…..
I can spin rather thin.
I often choose the Navaho/Navajo plying, because I like a 3 ply yarn.
Now I wondered if I could do this with two singles?
I gave it a try……
I crochet the two singles at the same time and the final result will be a 6 ply.
As you can see it is possible. When I took the yarn of my skein winder it twirled to the left a lot.
To much ply! I unplyed it a little in the spin direction and now it looked and felt better.
It did twirl a little to the right though, but not as much as it did at first to the left.
I am content. It still is a very thin yarn, but it was a nice experiment and a lot of spinning 🙂
Yes, I really won this beautiful blend. It was given by ‘het wolbeest’ The photo shows blue and green, but it is turquoise and green, my favorite colours.
The blend of turquoise is Swifter/Merino/Camel / silk and angelina. The green is ‘Fries-melkschaap’ / Merino, mohair, Camel and soy-silk.
Now I have to decide: spinning or felting?
Not easy…but the blend is so beautiful, I think, in the end, I will choose for spinning.
The only thing I did was RT a tweet, can you imagine!?
It feels so soft…gorgeous. Thanks Alexandra.
Puh…finally on my way with the right pattern for my own spun yarn. A blend of Alpaca and Jacob Humbug.
All seems to go well now and in time it will be a finished sweater.
Here you can find the pattern I use….garnstudio
This shawl is very warm and nice to wear.
If you want to see how it was made, please click this page.
Jacob Humbug and Alpaca
Jacob and Alpaca singles were plyed
Busy knitting.
I use the false fishermans rib.
Yes…..I finished my 1 kilo merino tops. I wanted to make a thicker thread and I succeeded.
It has become a really bulky yarn. I named it ‘Many Coloured’ .
It was Navaho / Navajo plyed and the total length is 1017 m.
Next step: knitting!
This third week I started to spin again, but Tuesday was my last day. My four year old friend came to stay with us and I knew my time would be scarce. So I left the team.
Nevertheless I did some Navajo plying and knitted a small sample
This second week I did spin, but not that much, only one full bobbin.
I tried to make an evenly, thicker thread. To make it more easy the tops were divided in 8 thinner lengths.That went well. I will do some Navajo plying and some knitting and ……keep my fingers crossed.
In the meantime I went on blending Ryeland fleece / cria alpaca / kid mohair / angora. The total weight is +/- 40 grams.
The yarn on the bobbin and the yarn at the top ‘left’ were already spun.
I plyed with mercerized cotton.
While spinning, I will be busy with carding my Ryeland fleece too…..
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I will blend it with kid mohair, angora and cria alpaca
It’s a project so long waiting on my ‘to-do’ list
I joined the Tour de Fleece spin-along on Ravelry today….27 june.
When the real ‘Tour the France’ starts, we are solidary…….
First I will go on spinning my blend of alpaca / hampshire down.
The hampshire down is ‘sun’ dyed with crushed, green walnuts.
Spinning and knitting at the Farm and Country Fair and intending to buy nothing at all…
unfortunately my husband insisted on giving me …… a huuuuuuge present 🙂
Enough for a cardigan…1 kilo……..
At ‘the Dutch Annual Spinning Day’ I bought space dyed soybean tops.
At the start, spinning was a little slippery, but I managed after a while.
It was plyed with a silk thread.
