Showing posts with label spindle. Show all posts
Showing posts with label spindle. Show all posts

Wednesday, 3 April 2013

Adventures in Spinning


                                      

Remember this from my last blog post? My first attempt at spindle spinning? like I need another crafty hobby? Anyway it turned into this!


 Two hanks of spun wool. Hurray!


And then this, plied together to make a marl effect yarn and now being knitted into a cowl or a mat or whatever I can get out of it. I've really enjoyed the process even though it was a trial to see whether it would be feasable to spin my own yarn to cut down on costs for my knitting. It might be, if I can get a more even spin, maybe I need to play with a proper wheel to see if I can achieve it.

So let's see what I can do with this, I'm wondering if I can mix the fluff to make a variagated yarn or whether I spin each colour and then ply them together. We shall see. I need to so something with it by Saturday as I'm going up to Derbyshire to the monthly 'Wensley Yarn Workers' meeting on Sunday. The colours of the fluff I have chosen are to go with the April Challenge a photograph of some clematis.


Sunday, 24 March 2013

I Should Be Finishing Grace!


But I got this kit (spindle, roving and instructions) in the post from Hill Top Cloud It's such fun, I've spun quite a lot already and want to do more but I know I have to finish Grace. 


I need to finish the cream and then do the brown so I can ply them together.  Then  knit something with it. It has been easier than I thought it would be, so therapeutic. I'll post when I have the completed yarn.