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I visited my favorite yarn shop today. I'm always inspired by the colors and textures. Many of the yarns are hand dyed by the proprietress.
I don't remember how I acquired this yarn. Some sort of swap for some other even-less-desired yarn. It's a nasty pale mint green. However, it's Dale Baby Ull, which is a nice superwash fingering weight 100% wool yarn. It's now on its way to Carrie/Funkycarolina who's going to dye it a beautiful teal color for me. She's good at teal, you know.
Little sample balls of Hello Yarn Sock. I didn't spend half the afternoon winding them to let them go without a photo!
For knittingphilistine's new Fiberlicious photo pool. Blogged HERE.
From left to right:
The Knittery cashmere merino in Forest Moss;
Wollmeise Sockenwolle in Farn;
Sundara sock yarn in Grass.
Cherry wood bowl by Charles LaBelle, Tawas, Michigan.
I visited my favorite yarn shop today. I'm always inspired by the colors and textures. Many of the yarns are hand dyed by the proprietress.
I got a *super-lovely* Lion Brand catalog in my mailbox a few months back, and came across it happily in my desk travels, today. Sooo inspiring! It makes me wish for multi-colored stacks of yarn in my won craft room! :)
Blogged: michelleclement.typepad.com/blog/2011/01/yarn-love.html
Yarn acquisitions of the past month! A road trip to see family, a tour of local shops for the DFW Yarn Crawl, and the inaugural Stitches Texas conference!
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!)
Four ounces of a hand-dyed wool roving, spun up into a fingering-weight two ply. The roving came from my stash and I could not find a tag for it, so I have no idea who the dyer is. There is roughly 400 yards of this bright yarn that will make a lovely pair of socks.
My Etsy Shop, Sassenach Yarns, is open!
Here are the seven colorways I'm starting with (lucky seven?)--I was going to keep Fraser for myself, but then I figured, heck, I'll throw it up there and see what happens.
If worse comes to worse and the yarn doesn't sell, I suppose I shall have to unlist it all and add it to my obscene personal stash, but let's hope it doesn't come to that =D
I gave Sandi some handspun yarn as a thank you for Will's coat. It's a merino-angora blend. (Maybe 5% angora?) The merino is from Abi, the angora is from Gir. It's hand blended, and hand spun on my Ashford wheel. Approximately 160 yards of three-ply (worsted weight) yarn.