🧶 It's done! Yarn re-skeined on swift from ball I wound months ago, washed in Eucalan, dried thoroughly (it fluffed up, so nice!), re-wound just now into a ball.
Join me for Romi Hill's #MKAL - "Way Leads On To Way!" Starts this coming Friday, April 26th.
🧶 Two color crescent shawl
🧶 Extremely well planned in all respects
🧶 Lots of #YouTube & #Ravelry posts
🧶 New techniques
🧶 Many participants
🧶 Scaled pattern pricing
🧶 Kits
🧶 Not too hard 😊
I’m looking for fediverse accounts to follow for inspiration in my new leisure interest: #knitting#socks. I’ve made two pairs so far and am looking for help and style variations, as well as tips to improve my technique.
@ellane Here are a whole bunch of hashtags to check out. Not all relevant to socks but all are fiber arts related. Welcome to this wild and woolly world!
I filled up a bobbin for the first time! This one is some BFL I am pretty sure I bought when I still lived in TX. (So, old) woo! #handspinning#spinning
A small collection of my handspun yarn, wool or wool blended with silk or alpaca. The gold was dyed with onion skins, and the rust was dyed with sandalwood. The rest are synthetic dyes.
@spinning Last night’s 100g finished and plied. This is “Singer” from Hilltop Cloud. I can’t remember the blend but there was something a bit toothy in it.#spinning#fibre#handspun#handspinning
Some reorg at work and a come-together for the new team - I'm the third-oldest now, median is probably about 30 (I'll be 55 soon), about 2/3 male (IT).
One of the questions was if anyone has an "unusual" hobby - owning and using #spinning wheels and #weaving looms did count.
Question about a favorite book answered with "Big Book of #Handspinning didn't help either.
Fun new spinning project: I separated a bag of neon-splotched fiber by color as best I could, broke those colors down into smaller strips, and I'm just pulling them out of the bag at semi-random. My goal is to chain-ply and line the colors up as much as possible. I think it's looking good so far! #handspinning
Basket o' handspun. This is from a Tunis sheep named Lovely. It's currently single ply. I think I'm going to triple-ply it for cushy-soft knitting purposes.
Holy f*@k - I did a Thing!
I inherited a part ball of variegated yarn - which I dislike using because I feel it's disorganized, chaotic and messy looking. But I've seen this thing done online and decided to spend a day screwing around and tried it. It bloody worked. (Eventually) I'm amazed. A combination of programming and sorcery.
Look at how nice this yarn turned out! I had this fiber for years because I wasn't confident enough in my color handling skills, but I finally reached a point where I was more confident and I am proud of the end result #handspinning