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.

handspun stash is growing

I've been spinning the last few days (no socks to knit at the moment) and so my spinning challenge stash is growing.

I spun up the green BFL batt i dyed a couple of weeks ago.I used my new fast whorl i got from "The Woolery". Setup was 14:1 for very thin singles and then plied with each other at the same sett up.It came out really nice , except for the first 20 yards or so.

for some odd reason the ply was very loose but got better after several yards even though i didn't adjust a thing.

compare the left strings to the right ones. what happened?

i got 380 yards of fingering weight yarn, 16 wpi. the yarn is so very soft.I think i will spin the other batt thicker,this fiber is so soft and fluffy it lends itself to thicker yarn with its long staple.

this is the real color of the yarn:

my goodness, i finally got this post done! it took me two days of trying,pictures would not load

two more for Canada

A recent customer loved her socks so much that she ordered two more pair.Repeat orders give me a great sense of accomplishment and pleasure,tells me I'm doing something right.

I've been working on them since last week (that's why i didn't post anything in a few days,I'm busy! )that and there is just nothing going on right now (summer blah's).
The heat is so bad at this time of year that I'm practically housebound.It never used to affect me much but i think the chemo has made me very intolerant towards humid heat(cold has bothered me all my life,65F and under and I'm freezing,so that's the same).dry heat, not so much ,which would be OK if we lived in Arizona.so I've got until about 9 am and then I'm stuck inside(wal -mart is very empty at 6:30 am!!).

I'll try to get back to spinning tomorrow. i ordered a fast flyer set up for my ashford last week and had no chance to use it yet.Better get these socks ready for shipping,Canada,here they come!!

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 :)

Canada,here they come...

These funky patchwork socks are going to Canada.I knit these while watching tv.

They where listed in the shop all of 1.5 hours before they where sold.

Business has been awfully slow this year.i used to have a sale almost every day, sometimes several, now if i got a sale once a week if i'm lucky.

but these socks usually go fast. I've already started on another pair.

Weaving wise im still working on the baby blanket.this will be a seamed together one since my loom is not wide enough to do the whole thing in one swoop. so i'll make two pannels and sew them together.

I wish i was good enough yet to enter Dave's 'Handweavers Swap'.

I'll practice more and if they keep it going i'll be able to enter maybe in the fall.

I'm going to try and dye some today.I 've got this supernice BFL roving ,and tons of it,i need to do something with. I've had it for over a year .I'm curious how it will spin up. It feels like a soft cloud now.pics will follow.

new addition

Announcing a new addition to our family:

Daniel,my new grandson:

Happy:

NOT happy:

lungs are working GOOD!!
he was born yesterday at 11:30 am, 4 days earlier than expected, during a BAD thunderstorm.

mother and baby are doing well and are expected to go home tomorrow.

when we got home from hospital we found this in our yard

boy did we get lucky with this one, if it had fallen any other way it would have caused major damage to either garage,boat,jeep top, building supplies.

more handspun

here is a little more hand spun to add to Dave's spinning challenge:
from this layered batt in very bright pastels:

to these two bobbins of very bright singles:

to this one skein of loosely plied,very bright multy colored yarn:

It's only 102 yards/60gr/2.1/8 oz, so it'll be an accent yarn for something bigger.

I wound the yarn into a cake and plied the singles from both ends, no leftovers!

I might list it in the shop.