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Well, some pretty f’d up stuff happened this evening that I don’t want to get into. But on the bright side, I received some raw black wool (Shetland/Suffolk/Romney) from Desired Haven Farm! Just in time for the blog’s birthday. Can’t wait to start including this stuff in the batts I’ll be making with my awesome [...] Sometimes I’m really smug about the fact that I am a Scorpio. There, I admitted it. I can be selfish. I can be dark. I can be mysterious. I like the things that your quintessential Scorpio is supposed to like. We’re quite a smug little club of dirt dwellers. Even the tattoo artist who inked [...] more brown. Pat yourself on the back, please. My intention is to mix these browns up with the teensy green so they will become a yarn you could hang in a forest and look right at it and not see it. I’ll probably name it something silly like “Wood Elf”. I dyed these last night (except the [...] Somehow I forgot to mention here that I actually opened up my Etsy shop on December 1! Since then I’ve already had sales from a few different people and a custom order for more. I also recently sold some knitted hats and scarves at Outer Space’s most recent craft sale and picked up *four* custom [...] That’s how I would describe this Merino wool. That… and “yum”.these three were dyed in the wool before drafting and spinning: and this was spun up before being lovingly dyed by the Corn Puppy! I recharged the batteries enough to upload this one picture the camera had been holding hostage:Spot-dyeing roving in the pot and then spinning it up like that has created all these beautiful, subtle colors in the resultant yarn. It’s like looking into a fire. Still no name yet. By the way, those red flowers in the [...] Friday is wonderful stuff. It’s the only day of the week I don’t have be at work until the afternoon, so once I drop the girls off at school I have the whole morning completely to myself. Here’s what I did this morning… a swatch on the needles to show the knittin’ peeps that you can use [...] Dear Small Yet Dedicated Audience, This is why I haven’t written in two whole days; I’m sure you’ll understand… the majority of this stuff was either twisted up, dyed or overdyed on Monday or Tuesday night: and… let’s zoom in on my favorite… these are handfuls of Cheviot fleece that I’ve processed from scratch! (more on that in [...] This wiggly, wavy, oh-so-soft yarn is my first stab at creative plying. I spun the wool single as a thick and thin, trying to keep the twist to an absolute minimum… just enough for it to barely hold together. Then I plied it with reclaimed silk thread from this project. The resultant yarn is freaking [...] What I’ve learned recently: Thou shalt not pet thy soft, fluffy roving to the detriment of its loft and fiber alignment. A few nights ago I was petting and squishing [...] |
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