For Macro Mondays

not knitting fast enough to keep up

Little sample balls of Hello Yarn Sock. I didn't spend half the afternoon winding them to let them go without a photo!

*desktop wallpaper size*

Nov 07 - Batts from Loop to get my spinning mojo back.

a PSL pic ~grin~

ANSH scavenger17 "fill the frame"

My basket of yarn balls, my puppy loves to sneak them out of the basket!!

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!

Beginning of a crochet bag

my latest batch of handpainted merino wool sock yarn

For Macro Mondays. September 8, 2014 ~ Pale.

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Swift Downtown fingering weight yarn. 437 yards.

Samsung csc

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!)

Classic Elite Mountain Top Vail,

Parchment, Cream, Adobe, and Camel,

70% alpaca, 30% bamboo,

4 full hanks

for my pittsburgh knit and crochet festival booth.

yarn pirate 100% merino superwash sock yarn in "Philistine" colorway

Handspun yarn I made on a spinning workshop last weekend. From my very own carded batt!

I had so much fun on the workshop, visit www.woolwench.com to read more about it and see some pics :)

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Finally decided on this ball of yarn for January's Monthly Scavenger Hunt. it's Adriafil Globe.

handspun yarns

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

there's about 250 yards

there's some barberpoling but also sections of solid.

The yarn you can make with the Learn-to-Dye kit!

Hand spun yarn - super-fine merino, viscose

sock yarn

sock yarn

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.

In Askersund Sweden last week I came across a little store that sold flowers, crafts, and souvenirs (and had the Sweden Mexico football game on the radio). Outside the shop were these wonderful balls of yarn squeezed into a bin. What a wonderful photo opportunity. I bought no yarn, but did get a souvenir and listed to a bit of the game with the shop keeper.

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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!