Month: July 2005

  • spinnin

    Just spinning here today, folks.

    I spun up the first two lots of my hand-dyed corriedale.

    The colours aren’t quite true – both of the dyed skeins are more brown in real life. How *do* people get colour-accurate pictures? I suppose a better camera would help; alas, I’d rather spend the money on fibre. The rust yarn is about 150 yards, worsted-ish weight, and the green one is a little thinner and about 196 yards (both are 4 oz and 2-ply). I’m quite happy with the colours after being spun up, actually.

    And check out these cool tags; my cousin gave me them at Christmas. Seems like a waste to just use them for myself, so I’m going to pick up some plainer tags just to label the yardage and such.

    I also spun up that sherbet-coloured merino, but I couldn’t get a good picture tonight – I’ll put one up tomorrow. In the meanwhile, I’ve dyed some more of the merino. This stuff is seriously soft; I think I need to buy some more (plus it’s a good deal)!

    This one is primary colours with a bit of the in-between colours (just a touch of green and purple). I love that it actually turned out bright!

    This one is more red in real life; it’s dark pinks, reds, and purples. I quite like it, even if it does look kind of like a bruise.

    That’s it for now! Next question is, of course – what do I do with all this handspun?

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  • the post that grew

    I thought I didn’t have much to blog about, but then I started taking pictures!

    I started a pair of Broadripples, using the 72-stitch version. I’m using my Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock in Bittersweet and they are SO beautiful. I was worried it was going to be too big, so I did the socks on 2.0 mm needles – it just fits. I only started on Saturday but the leg went soooo quickly. The foot, not so much, but I still love it.

    I started spinning up that rust roving, and this is what I came up with – it looks ok in the picture, and in real life as well, but that’s because I was at the section that was dyed a nice red. The majority of the yarn is orange, which I’m not huge on. Still waiting to pass judgement, though.

    I also wound off the white corriedale singles I’ve been working on, and it’s a pretty honkin’ skein of 275 yards! I’m going to dye this up, sometime.

    A finished colourway in merino! This stuff is soooooo soft, and I didn’t eff up the colour! It came out well and I’m happy. I’ve got another merino lot drying, and two soaking to be dyed today. I think one of them shall be a try at red, with some black…should be interesting.

    Also, this pile just needs to be blocked, and there’ll be a finished object!

    Keep cool!

  • results

    Sorry to leave y’all in suspense! Here’s the result of that first go at crockpot dyeing:

    I was trying for rainbow, so I put red, yellow and blue. What I got was…not rainbow. Rusts and oranges with odd little bits of violet. Weird. Maybe it’ll look better spun up. That’s what I hoping for, anyway!

    I also did another 4 oz lot of the corriedale:

    It looks a lot better in the picture, actually – the camera brings out the blues. I’m happier with this one, although the colours are really dark and the yellow turned brown-y (maybe I should try a different yellow…). I’ve got some merino drying, and some in the pot, that I’m a LOT happier with! Pictures of that coming.

    I’ve also completed the cotton footie socks…

    Basic sock pattern shortened; short row heel; standard toe. Fortissima Cotton Colori on 2.5 mm needles. They’re cute!