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Well butter my niblets!

Posted on | April 12, 2007 | 5 Comments

 

Part I:  Quite some time ago, I spun up some Ashland Bay roving on my spindle and the finished mini-skein reminded me of olives.  So I got out my camera, martini glasses and the multitude of vodka bottles we happen to possess (when you have a Stock the Bar party for your engagement, everyone who doesn’t really know what to get you will get you vodka.  It’s a rule or something: Girls like vodka.  Hey, I’m not one to argue with rules!)

Part II:  Have you guys visited The Yarn Museum?  If you want to see some drool-worthy handspun, go check it out.  I’ll wait.  I know I linked to a lot of places yesterday, but really.  Go.  Look.  Drool.  Clean up and then come back.

Part III:  While you’re there, check out the Handspun + Surreal Gallery.  That picture, at the bottom right of the page?  Yeah.  That one.  That’s my olive yarn!  Lounging in a martini glass in the shadows of vodka bottles.  How cool is that?  I submitted it thinking ‘aw, what the heck’ and they put it in the gallery!  I have some really, really good company in that gallery, too.  REAL spinners and dyers.  People who inspire the heck outta me.  Cool beans.

The sun is shine, shine, shining today and I wasn’t TOOOOO late for work, so I took my purple yarn outside for a photo:

I don’t want to overwhelm with pictures, so here’s one with the purple CVM and the blue roving I showed yesterday.  I have 8 oz. more of the blue to spin up…soon…don’t know if I’ll do it right away, because I’ve been distracted.  By this:

Remember the Wensleydale that was soaking my kitchen sink?  I got home last night, mixed up a very pretty pink, picked my other colors and started cooking wool.

Pretty, no?  I made three stripes of pink, one of peach and that dark color is red.  I kept the same color sequence for every layer.  Here it is cooking:

Looking good – still have color definition. 

Ack!  It’s so light!  Where are my deep, vibrant colors?  The peach is almost entirely gone!  Ah well, such is the life of a dyer!  You just NEVER KNOW.  But you know what - I like it!  I still think it’s pretty and I really can’t wait to spin it!  From what I’ve read, Wensleydale is a long staple wool with medium crimp and a wonderful sheen that retains a halo when spun, much like mohair.  When I originally dyed this, I was thinking socks but now I’m thinking lace.  Maybe Print o’the Wave?  The deciding factor will be how much yardage I get.  But first I have to figure out how to spin this.  I’ve read that you should have the same twists per inch as you do crimps per inch but how on EARTH do you figure out the crimps per inch?  I have no idea.  Back to my google search!

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