This is the result of Jet painting some medium Corridale. I liked his color choices. There's Jaquard turquoise, Gaywool raspberry, Gaywool Cornflower blue, and Gaywool green.

Natural and hand spun, bulky wool yarn. Each skein is 200 gr. Natural, organic and non dyed.

68 yards and 4.2 whopping oz of crazy handspun goodness. A huge and chunky yarn! There is wool, bamboo, mohair and tons of bling and glitz. This was spun from an awesome "oh hell" batt from the talented HollyEQQ!

Knit Round Scarf by Sally Melville

-Valley Yarns Northampton (Chestnut)

-Cascade 220 Paints Hand-dyed (Indiana Summer)

left to right:

copper/ammonia (first dyebath)

acorn/iron (3 skeins)

black beans (alum mordant)

hand-dyed wool

I couldn't pass up this sweater... er yarn. I found a beautiful nepalese sweater in a second hand store, but unfortunately it was HUGE. So I started unraveling it, and this is what I *found*

100% Nepalese wool

Cloud, Calypso Heather, Cranberry

hand dyed & spun merino wool

at Retrosaria

mãos de sapo & pés de pato

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Fiber: 50% Wool, 50% Silk

Yardage: 618-628 y

Skein Weight: 5.3-5.4 oz

Yarn Weight: Fingering

Recommended Gauge: N/A

Recommended Needle Size: N/A

Intended Project: Seraphim Shawl (designed by Miriam Felton)

4 ounces, 80 yards, 3-ply Falklands wool. Dyed and carded by Rebekkah Kerner.

Brand: Zitron

Yarn Name: Unikat

Color: #6

Fiber Content: Merino Wool

Skein Weight: 100g

Yardage: 175 yds.

Care: Hand Wash & Dry Flat

Notes: single ply, feltable

2ply handspun, 100% wool, permanent dye, worsted weight, approx. 240 yds.

Handspun 2 ply cormo wool. Spun to a light fingering weight on an Ashford Traveler. This stuff is SQUOOOSHY!

This is my entry for the Spring 2011 Competition - the attached 'photos tell the story.

I am calling the yarn 'Hanami' (the name given to Japanese cherry blossom viewing picnics), because, while I created it, I couldn't quite keep out of my mind the contrast between the pleasurable activity I was undertaking and the trauma being suffered in Japan. I looked at Shiela's 'photo and felt decidedly challenged, as the colours did not encompass the range I usually work with. However, inspired by the delicate blossom, beautiful sky and tracery of red-brown twigs with hints of green leaves to come, I decided to experiment with some of the ideas I had garnered from Alison Daykin and Jane Deane's beautiful book, keeping as close to the 'photo as I possibly could, and making the most of some of the materials at my disposal.

I am lucky to live in a Cotswold village, where farming friends let me have Romney fleece which I prepare at home. First carded 85/15 with Satin Angora from my pet rabbit, then spun as a single, this was then plied with another single of 30% Romney-Angora, 30% blended pale blues of merino tops, 20% dark green merino carded with pale green hand-dyed silk throwsters waste and 20% brown wool from a Jacob's fleece carded with deep cherry and ochre pre-dyed merino. Each colour was added separately to the single in equal sections, in the order I felt gave the best colour balance to the yarn. (Initially, I tried plying two of the coloured singles together, keeping the coloured sections parallel, as best I could, but the result was too busy and had too strong a feel next to the 'photo. I opted instead to ply the mullti-coloured single with a plain cream one, which made it more restful.)

hand-dyed superwash wool yarn

hand-dyed superwash wool sock yarn

225 yards

100% superwash wool

4.5 sts = 1" on US #7

2 balls in Mixed Berries

Pinks and Orange

1 strand sport weight alpaca and 1 strand dk weight wool (cascade 220)

hand-dyed and handspun Cormo wool yarn by Maisy Day Handspun

Springy Polypay wool hand spun into a heavy worsted yarn. Then, I kettle dyed with a natural dye that I extracted from yellow onion skins.

100% merino wool (100g)

hand dyed and spun

~SOLD~

www.maosdesapo.blogspot.com

Spud & Chloe Sock,

Color #7811 (yellow),

80% Wool, 20% Silk,

1 full hank

Multi colour dyed merino knitting wool.

www.landlearnnsw.org.au

600 yards, 300 grams, 3-ply natural white and dark brown Bluefaced Leicester wool, sport weight bordering on DK, a little on the dense side for wear (and also because it's a longwool). Spun on my Schacht Matchless.

This will be a sweater for my husband.

Hey, I tried.