Coral Sun Valley handspun
2 braids of fiber to spin up.
2 braids of fiber to spin up.
Began | November 21, 2024 |
Finished | Work in progress |
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Edited | November 21, 2024 |
Leftover advent yarn turned into cute little flowers. Each section of leftovers makes anywhere from 2-6 flower ornaments for either a chain for the wall or my happy tree. (direct link: CrochetLeaf.com: 6 petal picot flower)
PLANNING: Use TdF2021 handspun (DnD Fibers) for main color. Sun Valley in Wine, Onyx, and Intermission are coming for the colorwork. Plan to continue colorwork at the underbust (possibly with a band of corrugated ribbing first). Bought the pattern from Jessica McDonald’s site. September 26: wound yarn and swatched in the round September 28: cast…
After a mighty long hiatus from socks , making an attempt again. Last pairs were too small for my feet, in 2018/2019. My feet spread out with my PTTD. And I was knitting at such a tight gauge, my hands were hurting too. So I’m doing these still on my US 1, but attempting to…
Found a new-to-me fiber dyer on Etsy, DnD Fibers, and purchased 8oz of one colorway and 8oz of another to spin up. They are both 85% polwarth and 15% tussah silk. One colorway was a soft pink, a purple leaning pink, a steely gray, and white, and the other was soft pink leaning lavender, the…
knitting a shorter short one to use up this small skein of handspun and participate in the Yarnings Podcast knitalong! started with about 19g, ended with 1g. wound the rest on my little niddy noddy, about 14yds left. did less repeats of each of the 4 motifs.
This tee appeals to me as a way to use a variety of colors together! I love the v in the pattern, but I plan to wear that to the front instead of the back. I chose 5 yarns that had some orange in them, where I alternated multicolor and semi-solids between each other in…