i’m totally spinning mad at the moment. so this is what i just finished. it’s 100% merino space roving from huppertz. the yarn turned out 435m and 100g.
it was fun to spin because the roving is already in small strips you can use just as it is. no separating, no predrafting. i wasn’t too keen on the colours when i saw them live for the first time, but it always looks completely different when spun up. it also turned out a lot shinyer than i would have expected.
i called it „thunderstorm“ because i think it looks like one 🙂
the colours are a little darker in real life, like on the photo where you can see the complete skein.
i’m thinking about knitting knotty gloves from the yarn. what do you think?
ohoooo, i’m walking on sunshine, ohoooo, i’m walking on sunshine, ohooooo and don’t it feel good…
my newest handspun yarn 🙂 it’s 100% merino in yellows from das wollschaf. it is 94g and 434m. i spun this yarn with ruputured ligaments. but the treadling movement didn’t feel bad so i thought it wouldn’t hurt my foot. maybe it even was a good training? (trying to convince myself here. but hey, what can you do when you are addicted?! 😉 )
guess it’s going to be „walking on sunshine socks“ 😉
i had to spend a week at home because of my ruptured ligaments. as you can imagine that was veeery boring and i got all creative and did this with adobe illustrator. it was great to get to work with illustrator again and i quite like the result 🙂 expresses my state of mind 😉
as it is a vector graphic i can use it for anything i like in any size i like. might get a tshirt printed. or a bag, or, or, or…
some new skeins of my favourite yarn in the world moved in recently. 6 new skeins of wollmeise 🙂 yippeee. it’s so hard to get any wollmeise these days, so i sent my parents to the farmers market in sindelfingen where wollmeise had a market stall. they only live about 15km away so it was the perfect chance to get my hands on some yummy yarn. i also got some skeins for my colleague reingard.
this is my loot! they are from left to right: safran (100% merino superwash), granatapfel (twin, merino & poly), försters glück (twin, merino & poly), barist’o‘ (100% merino superwash), neptun (100% merino superwash), wellensittichvogelfeder (100% merino superwash)
and this is my complete wollmeise stash:
from top to bottom and left to right: nature, safran, terra di siena, red hot chili, granatapfel, farn, pfefferminz prinz, neptun, barist’o‘, wellensittichvogelfeder, frosch, försters glück
yarn: 100% shetland roving from wheeldale woolcrafts in blue-grey-turquoise. handspun by me into a lace weight 2-ply yarn. it has 88g and 610m. the shetland roving isn’t as soft as i would like it to be but the yarn turned out very airy and light. and i love the colours.
i’m so proud of this one! i’m really suprised how fast you get better with spinning. after less than a month was able to produce this beauty (ok, you can tell that i’m all excited, can’t you 😉 ).
it’s 100% superwash merino roving from drachenwolle and i spun it as thin as i could and then navajo plied it. i ended up with 88g and about 420m, so thinner than sock yarn. i’ll knit socks of it anyway, just cast on some more stitches than i usually would.
this was the first time i took part in a mystery kal where a new piece of the pattern is revealed every week. it was a kal in the „sock knitters anonymous“ group in ravelry and we all knit the kiila sock by yarnissima. as i knitted her brainless socks before and know her other designs i was sure this one was going to be excellent as well. so here it is:
i was so busy lately that i didn’t even manage to post the newest news!
my spinning wheel arrived on 27th april. so i’m officially an old, crazy spinster now *lol*
it’s a kromski sonata and i love it. it’s quiet, smooth and spinning with it is very easy. not that i have a lot of comparisons as i never spun on a wheel before 😉 another cool thing is that you can fold the sonata, put it in a huge rucksack bag and transport it easily. you can also change the flyers, so i already know what i want for my birthday: a fast flyer and jumbo flyer and tons of fibre 😉
here is my beauty. it doesn’t have a name yet, but i guess it’ll get one sooner or later…
i have also been busy spinning of course.
this is my 1st yarn. it’s new zealand merino, undyed. quite lumpy and irregular, but hey, it’s yarn and i made it!
this is my 2nd yarn. i have no idea what kind of sheep it is from, it came with my drop spindle starter set ages ago and finally became yarn now. two shades of red plied together.
this is my 3rd yarn. i called it „purple paradise“. it’s hand-dyed shetland roving from wheeldale woolcrafts. lovely blues, purples and whites. this time i even measured the length of the yarn by winding it from the whorl onto my swift which i had set to a circumference of 1.5m before. i ended up with 173g and 600m. should be about the weight of 6ply sock yarn. i haven’t decided yet, but maybe it’ll actually become socks. yay. i was so surprised that you can improve so fast. the yarn is getting thinner and thinner and more regular 🙂
here you can see me spinning it on my balcony in the sun:
and this is the 4th yarn on which i’m still working. it’s merino superwash from drachenwolle. the merino is very smooth and i managed to spin very thin. i’m aiming for a 3ply sock yarn – i want to try navajo plying. how exciting. have a look at the work in progress:
conclusion after 3 weeks of spinning: i love it. the first yarn was a lot of stress (trying not to let the yarn break or get huge lumps) but it get’s really relaxing when you’ve got the hang of it. spinning meditation. the new yoga 😉 i also thought it would be more difficult. i saw a lot of „first yarns“ at ravelry, but a lot of them looked a lot worse than mine. so i’m quite proud of myself, if i may say so. ok, back to spinning…
