From this to this!

I haven't managed to keep up my mission to blog once a week, probably because I am too busy looking at everyone else's blogs. But anyway I thought I'd post again and try and get to some sort of theme going to make my thoughts easier to put on "paper".

I knit, spin and crochet so following on from many of my fellow Ravelry virtual mates I thought I'd try showing some of my projects.

I am new to spinning - well under a year anyway -so my yarn making is still a little inconsistent but getting there.



This is one of my recent forays - the wool was actually an English wool/silk noil tops mixture bought from Forest Fibres through her ebay site where she has a wonderful range of different wools and spinning equipment to choose from.




First I hand dyed the rovings which wasn't great success as I didn't mix enough dye and the wool wasn't wet enough for it to disperse the dye. Anyhow's it came out very mottled looking. To put a bit more colour into it I then drum carded it with some merino royal blue and turquoise commercial tops.




When I started spinning it it really wanted to draft finely but this made the yarn have quite a hard rough feel, so I decided to let the drafting happen in chunks making this a thick and thin yarn but super bulky in places.




My potential for it is a hat and a reasonably loose knit chunky one was found at Ozark Handspun who make wonderful handspun yarns with loads of texture in them.

Well I'll upload some piccies once I manage to get this knitted up.