so i’ve still been spinning obsessively…eventually i’ll get around to actually knitting the stuff, or something. maybe i’ll trade some of it. i don’t know.
so finished projecets first:
i finished cotton candy last week, and i’ll post a pic of it later today. the weather should be good enough that i can grab a photo of it outside so the colors will be half-way true. i ended up chain plying it to itself. i’m hoping to get more dye soppers from slimchicken so i can get enough to make a hat, otherwise it’ll be mitts. there’s roughly 70 yards right now.
new projects:
-do over
do over actually isn’t a new project, or at least it’s not a new concept. call me a pack rat but i have a hard time getting rid of things that other people would just toss, especially if it’s something that would amount to something if put together with other little bits of things. all the little bits of fiber that are left over from spinning get shoved into a bag, and then recarded into rolags. the singles are chain-plyed and then overdyed with purple (1 package blue kool aid and 1 package of grape kool aid). eventually it’ll be some sort of scarf. there’s currently about 70 yards for that project.
-solstice
i really wasn’t going to keep with the pagan name theme but we went to brushwood for solstice this weekend and the sunset colors were EXACTLY what the colors in this bump are spinning up to be. it’s silk that my mom brought back from rhinebeck for me last fall. i don’t like silk. it’s working up to be very pretty and i’ll chain ply it to keep the colors, but i don’t like silk. i’ll end up sending her the skein when i’m done with it.
other projects
-mokos
i carded a bunch of wool at juggling practice (m spins poi with the buffalo jugglers in the summer) so i can start spinning it up again today. the red fleece took forever to dry so i’m going to stick to dyeing either roving or spun yarn. i was beginning to worry about mildewing, to be honest. so i haven’t actually spun on mokos lately- though in part because solstice is taking so long to spin.
– midsummer
i just took the first 20% off of my spindle, partly because it was overloaded (i couldn’t get it to take the roving anymore) and partly because i want to work on mokos. i think that this will be raffled off in the future (more details later). it actually is a gorgeous color now that i have it on the bobbin.
-ostara and pumpkin
i plied the first hank of ostara last week and have to get it skeined and washed this week. i spun a little (very little) on the pumpkin in the last week and decided that as bad as mokos is, spinning a plain white is even worse. i have to force myself to finish the white so i can get to the colored plies and get this thing finished.
Horrific Knits 