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Found it a little difficult to rationalise my favourite read! Decided to opt for one of my fairly recent favourites, Hugh Howeys excellent dystopian future ‘Wool’. Only originally written as a short story, the author extended the story into a novel then a trilogy of books. Apparently optioned as a movie that hasn’t been filmed yet!
Posting early as I’m back to work this week, will catch up later!
HMM!
72 yards of thick & thin brown baby alpaca goodness with puffy blobs of border leciester locks. Made from Loop batts!!!
The Woolpacks, Kinder Scout, Peak District, UK
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An old one that I didn't post at the time. A great afternoon with great winter light spent photographing Swine's Back, Edale Rocks, Noe Stool and ending up at the Wool Packs.
Spun from etsy's loop Earth Goddess batts. Corriedale wool, silk, glitz. Kept staring at it, so purty, can't bear to knit it, so I've posted it in my etsy shop.
(Explore-d) at the Tibetan carpet factory. sometimes It's difficult to keep the eyes open while spinning wool. If we wish you can view it 'Wool' On Black
ODC2 Containers
Yesterday my mother, who taught me to knit when I was 7, bequeathed me the last of her wool collection.
ODT Pastime - Knitting, of course, and aiming to get this up to 4000 views!!
I purchased this wool felt from One of the Flock on Etsy. It's so yummy and I love the colours and texture so much that I purchased more right after I received it in the mail!
This yarn is part of a series of new experiments I'm performing with color in spinning. This yarn was spun from merino roving that was handpainted in a series of colors that never repeat. I split the roving down the center and spun two nearly identical skeins - they both will self-stripe in the same color sequence, with no repeats. Perfect if you want to make a pair of something - like fingerless gloves/armwarmers or legwarmers - or if you want to make one large piece, like a scarf, you can knit/crochet in different ways to produce different color effects. You could alternate one row from each skein, or you could knit from one end of the first skein and then the opposite end of the second skein, for a mirror effect.
The colors in this yarn are (in the order they occur): pale blue, teal/green, yellow, peach, purple, pink, brown, and mustard/olive.
(I'm so lazy. I cut & pasted this from my etsy shop description. Which is why it sounds like I'm trying to sell it!)
Spun from scraps of my handdyed Spicery Shetland, Faded Merino, Ripe Olive Merino/mohair, and Churned Up Falklands.
Aran weight, 470 yards/10 oz.
This is group #1 of the effort to reduce my hand-dyed spinning fiber stash.
This was spun fast and loose while watching movies, including Twilight, which entertained me to no end.
I've been knitting up my stash of leftover or single skein wooly wools into 9" squares for a blanket for my living room couch.
I'm about half way through, and am getting near the end of my yarn. I have another square's worth of orange, 2 or 3 more brown squares, and 4 or 5 squares worth of natural yarn that I'll probably dye before using.
So far, this pile includes:
Peace Fleece
Barlett Yarn
Harrisville Highland
Zeilinger's
Sweet Grass Wool 2-ply (targhee)
Mystery tweed
Does anyone have any wooly wool leftovers that they wouldn't mind sharing? 25-35 grams makes a square, depending on weight. (Harrisville only took 25 grams, heaviest aran weight Z-wool was 35 grams).
All of our natural dye experiments so far.
From left to right: Eucalyptus Batch 1 and 2, Onion Batch 1, Virginia Creeper, and Onion Batch 2.
Fan Bookmark by crochetroo (rav link)
The yarn is handspun wool/mohair purchased at Rhinebeck 2007 (?)