This is BFL (25 micron) fiber from Created by Elsie B in the Color Wheel colorway. I have 8 oz total. Spinning end to end without striping it down to make a double rainbow.
| Began | August 6, 2022 |
| Finished | Work in progress |
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| Edited | August 18, 2022 |
Exoskeleton by Shana Cohen Purchased yarn from Queen City Yarns: Biddleville DK in Lucky Charms x2 and Madison Park Mohair in Raspberry Beret. Purchased pattern as preorder already from payhip. Plan to make the larger size. I love the idea that I am froot loops on the outside and pink on the inside 🙂 This…
Received this lovely self-striping yarn from my friend Karen. The summer of 2021 is a mess of doctors appointments to try and figure out what’s going on with my health and so I cast on a yarn-y companion project. Cast 60 stitches on provisionally with a crochet hook around my knitting needle. Using a 14″…
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…
2 braids of fiber to spin up.
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 viewing a variety of projects that used this pattern, I chose to make a 3 color version instead of two because that’s what I had. And it ended up that I was able to do a 3 color version with only 3 skeins instead of 4. Used the two-color brioche instructions for section 3….
