SPUNKY CLUB

I finished the FCS and have been waiting to block it….I had to get a blocking board.  I did that and it is now drying and being shapd.  The yarn is a two-ply handspun from Spunky’s Romney Rocky Mountain High.  I completed more repeats than the pattern called for.  Dimensions:  58″ x 30″ and I used approximately 500 yards.  I love Amy’s colors!

 This was a fun pattern to knit!

Leah
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Finished plying the purty pink and green Spunky. Just in time since the new selection should be arriving any day now.

I am thinking this will be a pair of gloves someday. Won’t be knitting them til it gets colder out though I navajo plied it and am guessing it is an aran weight yarn.

I’m new to spinning, having purchased my wheel at Rhinebeck last October and am really enjoying it!  With the Strawberry Fields fiber, I took half of the fiber and split the colors.

The other half I just went with the mix of colors, and then I plied it into 2 balls.  But I don’t have pictures of it yet!   And now Flickr’s having a massage!  I love seeing everyone else’s work!  I can’t wait to start on this month’s fiber!

More on my blog….Wool Over My Eyes

HHere are the singles of my nightshade, fingering to worsted:

And, here’s the Coopworth plied with the stash cormo:

I like how the pairing really lightened up the Coopworth without necessarily distracting from the original colors. I ended up with two skeins of this–one around 250 yards, the other around 190 yards.

To read more about my fiber adventures: click here!

Well, I finally finished spinning up the February fiber, Forecast, into a DK weight two-ply. It seemed to take forever and since i needed a lot of it, i’m calling this yarn “Patience”. I have two skeins, total 520+ yards!

240 yards

288 yards

Looking forward to starting on “Nightshade” by the end of the week! Right now, I need to do some instant-gratification spinning which for me means bulky art yarns!

This is Faith again, with yet another “vintage” roving, just spun up. (Amy, I hope it’s ok that I’m posting about the ones from last year!)

I am eagerly awaiting the newest Club colorway (I live in Germany, so it usually takes right up until the end of the month or sometimes a bit longer!), so in the meantime, I have spun up some roving that’s been sitting in the stash for exactly a year.

The top skein is 352 yards of fingering weight 3-ply, and the bottom is 134 yards laceweight 2-ply.

I was so pleased, because when plied, it makes a fairly consistent fingering weight (some parts a bit thinner).

<> I spun the singles (long-draw method) pretty tightly, then plied it firmly to make a tough sock yarn.

<>Merino has a short staple with not a whole lot of crimp, so the thinner and more tightly it’s spun, the less likely the individual fibers are to drift out and cause fuzzing, pilling and general wear. Also, 3-ply yarn wears harder than 2-ply, which is why I took the time to spin up three bobbins worth. If I’m going to take the time to spin the yarn, knit the socks, than walk all over in them, they’d better last! (I’m also going to knit the toes and heels in a smaller needle to help with the wear factor as well.)

<>The laceweight is just enough for a perfectly “spring” leaf-lace ascot or open, breezy headscarf.

You can check out my blog, The Needle And The Damage Done, if you want more details on how I organized the colors, prepared the wool for spinning, etc.