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May 30, 2005
I'll win that Motley Crue mirror if it fucking kills me
Claudia was right. Spinning is like crack. Here's the hat I started with my second handspun.
That's an 8mm needle, baybee! I need to try to get this stuff thinner. Wanna see a closeup?
Of course, I didn't have enough yarn for a hat, so now I need to duplicate the colour. I started with roving (I don't know what kind of sheep this came from, it was just labelled "Australian wool") in these Kool-Aid colours:
L-R: Jamaica, Ice blue and Pink lemonade. I dyed this to match something else and sent as much as I could cram into the box to my Back Tack pal, then spun the rest. These three colours all spun up together made me think of being at the carnival, reeling on a sugar high, about to throw up from the last ride and eating disgusting food and candy that makes your tummy hurt. Since I didn't want to be reminded of that every time I looked at the yarn, I overdyed it in a mixture of Switchin' Secret and Lemon Lime to get the weird brick red and green. I'm going to do the same thing again, spinning the red, pink and blue before dyeing green; I'll show you what it looks like before it goes in the green bath and you'll see what I mean about the tummyache.
I think I'm getting a little better at making an even yarn.
Not much better, mind you, just a little better. Obviously there are still some trouble spots. I won't have to use the biggest circular needle I own to knit this one up, at least.
Posted by jodi at May 30, 2005 09:45 AM | categories: projects
Comments
great colors!
re: evening out your spinning,
One Thing - pre-drafting.
Before you get out your wheel/spindle, draft the roving as thin as you want it when you're spinning it, so that you don't have to be drafting so much as you're spinning.
Took me about two years to figure this out, so i thought i'd pass on my earned knowledge. ;)
HTH!
Posted by: amped! at May 30, 2005 06:40 PM
I think that is lovely yarn. Dye away.
Posted by: claudia at May 30, 2005 09:01 PM
looooove the colors of your handspun. It has great texture too.
Posted by: Diana at June 1, 2005 09:17 AM