A bit of a self-indulgent comfort project, but man I really enjoyed it; I’m knitting a mid-sized one and hoping to make one that’s pretty big if I can sort out a gradient from things I’ve got on hand.
Freehanded another hat using handspun yarn my wife dyed. Used the same earfkap principle as with the pumpkin hat, but went top down because of the unpredictable gauge.
I never seem to talk about it anymore but I still make things! I have a ton of project photos that I'll be posting as I'm organizing my backups. This is an Iggy Peck sweater out of handspun polwarth, with needle-felted steeks.
Gradient spin challenge! I have personal notes about this one, but I still really like how it came out.
Refreshing on Rambouillet by Three Waters Farm.
I'm recovering from what I'm pretty sure is a sinus infection but was determined to get back in the woodshop, so I wore my handpsun kerchief to keep my sore throat warm. Naturally, working has now made me too warm, so I hung it up to keep shavings off it and honestly, maybe I should get photos of all my small knit goods this way...
This is some handspun merino I dyed with onion skins! Not a lot left for the weft, so may pick a different weft yarn in the morning after a good night's sleep. I was out camping all weekend and need an easy task for the evening
This is the fattest bobbin I have spun to date. That thing is FULL. We are at MAX CAPACITY. This is ~200g of Corriedale dyed by me. The purple dye had split into blue and red, but I'm very pleased that through the magic of ✨optical blending✨ the spun yarn looks purple! Yay 💜
Winding it onto the niddy noddy took ages. It was quite the arm workout. Now it just needs a good soak and a good thwack and this beast will finally be finished!
finished the electric rainbow rambouillet! it’s sooooooo pretty!! I hope plying doesn’t ruin it (planning to chain ply- I can’t imagine doing anything else.) I almost hate to take it off the bobbin since it’s so pretty from the side. But I want to keep using the spider bobbin so that won’t work 😅 I am obsessed with the gradient, seeing it fill the bobbin was super fun.
See this post here for pics of the braid, which is from SpinningSiren on Etsy (same as the bobbin!)
I fell into a pattern of simply filling up spindles over the last few months. So here’s the 100s of meters of thread that needs to be de-spindled, plyed, & finished.