Archive for April, 2008

Kinky!

The yarn has since been given a nice hot bath and is drying–I hope to get some pictures of it tomorrow. Once it hit the water, it relaxed significantly.
I’ll have more to write about this yarn after it’s completely done–I did a few things differently and so far, I’m pretty happy with how things [...]

More yarn!

On the wheel now: mottled green superwash merino that I’m attempting to make sock yarn out of. One of my persistent bugaboos is spinning more consistently, so that’s really what I’m concentrating on. Pre-drafting, frequent check of the single thickness, and a bit of hoping, because so far, it’s spinning up into just [...]

Two Yarns

(cross-posted from Handspinning @ LJ, apologies to anyone who is seeing this twice)
I have two finished yarns to show off, with pictures of them pre- and post-washing/finishing. As well as a tale of Epic Fail for one of them.

Above is about 350 yards of merino, spun mostly short draw. It took me nearly [...]