My Spinning Challenge Results

Well Dave, here is my contribution to your Summer Spinning Challenge:

It's not much but it did get me to spinning again and i will spin more from now on.

I spun 13 different colors up into this yardage:

469 yards multi color merino 12 wpi

251 yards black super wash merino/silk bits/black alpaca 11 wpi

151 yards fall colors BFL 6wpi

380 yards green BFL 16 wpi

102 yards bright multi colors cotswold / x bred merino 10 wpi

738 yards all colors alpaca/silk/cotswold/baby shetland/merino-polward x bred 12 wpi

256 yards dark blue denim super wash merino 19 wpi

161 yards dark blue denim super wash merino 17 wpi

113 yards multi color merino/cotswold 11 wpi

41 yards multi color cotswold 12 wpi

148 yards dark blue denim super wash merino 8 wpi

42 yards multi color cotswold 12 wpi

600 yards light steel grey superwash merino 17 wpi

that comes to 3304 yards in all,they are all two ply so i guess i spun 6608 yards in singles.

not even close to yours but it's the most i ever spun in this amount of time.

this was fun, it really got me spinning again, thank you.

Luscious Fiber

After two hours of blending these fibers on my carder i got these two big piles of 'Oh my god this is soooo soft ' batts:

BFL/silk/mohair

and merino,silk,superwash merino

now i have to blend all those together as consistend as i can .

That will be several more hours of cranking the carder,and then... the dyeing.

more hand spun

And here is some more hand spun i finished yesterday.

151 yards of "oh,so soft",squishy,yummy BFL.


It's a worsted /bulky weight with 7 wpi.Thick and thin but not extreme.

I love the colors,they are intense but muted;fall colors.


I don't usually knit with thick yarns like that so i will be offering

this at my shop.If i don't sell it i might use it for weaving a scarf or knitting a cowl.If i do weave with it i will use the thinner green yarn from the prvious post as warp.I dyed the two to color compliment each other.

BFL

I finally got around to dyeing about 9 oz of BFL roving I've had since last year (still got about 9 oz left)

I got 4 oz plus each of an emerald and kelly green with some light purple:

and another 4 oz of several shades of green (teal,kelly,emerald,), yellows,browns ,burgundy and violet.There is no blue ,but for some odd reason it shows in the pic and even after taking several in different light the teal still shows up as blue.

The colors are a little more vibrant than i had hoped for but i think that will be just fine for a scarf or shawl.

I'm going to try and spin this into a sport weight singles and weave it up in a twill pattern.Don't know yet what ill use for warp.I've ordered the new Spinning Book: Amy King "Spin Control: Techniques for Spinning the Yarns You Want" and it should be here by the end of next week.

I'll wait till then with the spinning, maybe i can glean some tips out of it that really lets me spin the yarn i want! Hope springs eternal :)