I've had a lovely stash of fibre just waiting for ages to be made into yarn, so I have been totally in my element making a dent in it - I'm about a quarter of the way through and am determined to get it all done before we get some dry weather, as then I will be making a start on my alpaca fleeces, and once I start on them I doubt I will have time for anything else for a while.
I have decided through my choice of fibres to spin that I have quite a colourful taste - although a lot of them don't spin up as I think they will, I have quite a bright 'pile' sat here in front of me and its quite lovely! Its all listed on the website for sale, and I sold two skeins just by putting the photos on Instagram, which for me is amazing as I consider myself to be very new to spinning and I see so many spinners producing such lovely yarn.
I like to keep a little bit of texture in my yarns - there's the odd 'slub' here and there and I think this gives the yarn some added texture and interest. I'm saving up for the equipment to spin art yarn as I really do love the uniqueness of each and every skein.
Anyway, back to this latest batch of yarn - I learnt to Navaho or Chain ply, which is a technique to make a three ply yarn from a single ply, and is also used to create colour effects with multi coloured fibre. None of the skeins listed are Navaho plied, as I got the technique but not the tension......I now have a couple of skeins of really really twisted yarn that I either need to rescue or throw out for the birds!!
In my last blog I showed you some colourful fibre that I was about to spin - here it is all sun, washed and skeined and ready to go into the shop
I'm off now to start on some more spinning, so I hope you are all doing what you like to do the most too..
Happy knitting/spinning/crocheting or other stuff (ing)!
Tina xx
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