Monat: März 2010

i couldn’t stop myself from buying a lot of fiber from rad der zeit at dawanda.

i tend to find a lot of adorable handpainted fibers all over the planet, mainly in the us, but you really have to take your chance when you find a nice shop with handpainted fibers that is based in germany. so here they are:

passion

200g, passion – 60% merino, 20% mulberry silk, 20% tussah silk

connemara

200g, 50% merino, 50% tussah silk

fun

100g, 50% merino, 50% tussah silk

rapunzel

300g, 100% new zealand lamb

amazonas

300g, 100% new zealand lamb

this is called „dragon purple“ because the wensleydale roving is from drachenwolle (=dragon yarn). and it is purple. obviously 😉

i spun it on my sonata and ended up with about 300m and 99g. i’m not sure what to think of wensleydale fiber tough. it is very shiny but not as soft as i would have liked. and after plying the singles and washing the skein it became scrubbier and lost some of it’s shine. but see for yourself:

this yarn was spun from zarzuela’s „blue jeans and leather shoes“ merino superwash fiber. it was a pleasure to spin and i ended up with 531m on 93g. any ideas what i could knit from it? maybe a simple scarf or shawl? nothing too outlandish as the colour changes are quite strong… hm…