Striping the Shetland

April 12, 2008 at 10:09 am | In Spinning projects, spinning | Leave a Comment

I have the blue and green Shetland that I combed and dyed. I dyed it first. So as I comb it. I only pull through that combs worth of wool and add that “hank” to the pile.

Easter egg blue

I have decided to spin using alternating colored hanks for this yarn. I’m getting about 20 yards or so for each color in the singles. I have decided to Navajo ply this in order to keep the striping true.

I think this is going to be a fingering or dk weight yarn…not sure with the Navajo tri-ply yet to figure in yet.

This shetland has very very soft spots and then again, some areas feel a little rougher. I think overall, since I am giving it a tight spin, that it will be overall quite soft for Shetland. I might try socks with this one.

Easter Egg Color Dyes

April 3, 2008 at 5:26 pm | In spinning | Leave a Comment

I bought a lot of Easter Egg dyes the week after Easter for a very good price. I’m really having fun with this.  I have some overdyed Shetland fleece that came out a pretty blue, some that came out a very green, green.  I might process them togeher.

Of the Merino roving I had on hand, the results are as follows:

Summer Clouds

Summer Clouds – 4 oz. of Merino

Lavender Sunset

Lavender Sunset – 4 oz. Merino

Stormy Seas

Stormy Seas – about 3 ounces of mystery fiber – possibly an 80% Merino with 20% other mixed in..

I’m waiting for my Maribold skein to dry to post. It’s 4 oz. of Merino spun into fingering weight – around 245 yards.

And last, but not least, the Merino that I thought was going to be slippers, but it asked to be spun very fine.

Purple Mountains Majesty 2

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