And What Fibery Things Have I been Up To?
You get three guesses. And two of those don't count.
My nephew got me this Crown Mountain Farms yak and merino roving for Christmas (I provided his mom with the web site and said anything fun to spin!). He came over on New Year's Day to help spin it up.
It's working up to be a pretty rustic single with slubs of what I think are the yak (the dark brown stuff) as it spins totally differently from the merino. That's not a bad thing. I'll ply two together, I think, for a soft kind of rag wool effect.
This is exactly as it appears -- I joined Adrien's fiber club and here is the Dec. 07 installment. It's a lovely, soft soy silk wool blend. I can hardly wait to get my hands in this, let me tell you. Anyone else spun it yet?
And here are the Rachel rovings. From the top left: Dance Mistress superwash bfl, Helebore superwash bfl, "Couldn't hit the side of a..." tencel blend, and Dance Mistress tencel blend.
Her concern about the tencel and how it would spin prompted me to use my first free morning in weeks thusly:
This crummy shot doesn't show the shineyness of it, but the colors are pretty good. Rachel felt like it kept breaking when she dyed it and was worried it would behave in the same manner on the wheel. I did not have that problem at all -- 'cause as you can see I've removed my tensioner all together. It wants to be rather thicker than I've been spinning my wools, but ... well ... duh. It's not wool. I kind of really like it. I'm nearly done with the three pieces she gave me to play with. Maybe I'll have it worked up into something fun by the party on Sunday.
Oh, all right. There has indeed been knitting. The Hemlock is done and gifted. I need to sort around and find the pictures. This swirly scarf, though, is my current obsession. It's out of my own spun yarn. Which I heart.
Rachel's roving again, and neither of us can remember the name of it. Something Dyeabolical, I'm sure. I like how this scarf shows the yarn shading through color combinations. It is soft and it makes me happy. And that is what counts after all.
Happy is good and that is a lot of happy there!
Posted by: trek | January 03, 2008 at 05:25 PM
Beyootiful!!!!!!!!!! Great job!!!!! Can't wait to see some of this goodness in person!
Posted by: tina | January 03, 2008 at 07:08 PM
That scarf is gorgeous and how special that it is out of your own handspun too!
Posted by: Jennifer | January 03, 2008 at 08:18 PM
It looks to me like you've gone over to the dark side - all that spinning stuff - it's really beautiful. I loved your numbers in the previous post - sounds like my house. I had to toss part of a frosty cake - too much overload!
Happy New Year!
Posted by: Julie | January 03, 2008 at 10:17 PM
wow, the colours!!!
best wishes from Iceland
Frida
Posted by: Fríða | January 04, 2008 at 02:05 AM