Color Wheel handspun
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.
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Bubbles of Love handspun
This is Hipstrings Superwash Targhee in the colorway “Magically Delicious.” I have 8 oz to spin up, and I split one of the braids in 4 segments and the other in 8 to give it a little more variability when turned into a 2 ply. Tell the story of the site and song it reminds…
Coral Sun Valley handspun
2 braids of fiber to spin up.
Cinder
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…
Palaces Out of Paragraphs
After the news that Huckleberry Knits, one of my favorite Northwest-y dyers is no longer going to be dying, I chose my final braid of her fiber from my stash to spin up. I purchased this the last time I went to OFFF with E and Leah. This is one of Scarlet’s Hamilton colorways, from…
omena may vest
mixed weights – worsted, sport, sport-ish handspun. gauge on worsted was a touch tight, so went up in stitch count from the biggest size, and knit the back a little longer. rather than welts for the rows, knit in garter. added short rows surrounding the top of the vest to add more length without adding…
Handspun American Oak
gauge swatch relaxed just a touch (25st/4” to 24st/4”, while pattern called for 26). I’m knitting a 38” bust (to account for that difference; I’m closer to 40) and increasing to 50” hip. increased number of rows of twisted ribbing on the top, and then an extra bit of gray before starting the color. did…
Handspun harmony
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.