Lately there has been much spinning and a little knitting. Here are pictures of both. First, the yarns.
1. Camel Silk. I spun this straight from a blend bought from Wingham Woolcraft. It’s shiny and beautiful, and lovely and soft.
2. This is a black jacob top mixed with some light grey BFL.
3. This is some fawn coloured alpaca also mixed with light grey BFL.
4. This is black jacob, white swaledale, and some yellow dyed merino.
5. Chocolate brown alpaca plied with light grey BFL.
Is all good! I like some better than others, but I’m proud of them all! This is all about playing with things and seeing what happens, and sometimes good things happen, and other times less good things! I have my favourites, but I’d be interested to hear what other people like best!
I have absolutely no idea what I will do with these mini-skeins, but never mind. I’ll find something!
And then, the socks. These are Spring Forward from Knitty Summer 2008. I would really recommend this pattern. It’s absolutely beautiful, and much easier than it looks! The yarn is Natural Dye Studio’s Dazzle in Mimosa. And they are lovely and soft.
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July 31, 2009 at 7:16 pm
Looking at the picture, the blue jumped out at me instead of the yellow and I “saw” three blue sections hanging down from the top section of blue & wondered how in the world this was going to turn into socks. Now that I actually see them, they are very nice.