Categories: Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008
From Fiber to Yarn
No chat today, just some before and after pics of fiber from roving being turned into yarn. more »
Rainbow Sorbet Fiber and My Temper
At the fiber retreat, I bought this really fun and funky merino that had the colors of rainbow sorbet: orange, lime, and hot pink. When I showed it to my friends, they gave me an extremely hard time about how horrible and ugly it was. For at least 5 minu… more »
Orange Chocolate Laceweight
Here's something I spun up just in case the other yarn for the Holiday Swap didn't work out. The fiber is from moonlightbaker on etsy.com, 4.5 oz of 50% alpaca, 30% merino, 20%silk. It ended up being about 825 yards of laceweight single ply yarn. more »
Holiday Swap Yarn
11/26/08 | by tr3n1ty ![[mail]](img/envelope.gif)
| Categories: I'm getting crafty, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008
| Categories: I'm getting crafty, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008 Last night I met with K and M to swap the yarn we had spun (see this post for details). I took pictures of the yarn that I swapped over to K to be knit. Now, if I was a smart person, I would have taken pictures of the other skeins of yarn. But I didn't.… more »
Test Sample Receives Approval
11/01/08 | by tr3n1ty | Categories: I'm getting crafty, He who shall not be named, Knitting, Knitting, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008
| Categories: I'm getting crafty, He who shall not be named, Knitting, Knitting, Spinning, Spinning, Holiday Gift Exchange 2008 I twisted up a test sample of the yarn for M and showed it to HWSNBN. He said it was "pretty." * Yay!
It looks much like I imagined it would, so I'm pretty happy. I like it too, even though I selected the colors that were M's taste, not mine. I won't… more »
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