I'm looking out my window wondering why in the world they didn't cancel school today! It's snowing HARD!! But at least it's giving me a chance to get a blog post written without 3 of the 4 kiddos home.
It's Fiber Arts Friday and I have some fun things I've been working on this week. It's a little disjointed, but hey, that's my life!
First up is a skein of yarn that I spun using Phat Fiber and other samples. I made two piles, weighed them out to make sure they were even, then spun the piles separetely, one sample after another, and plied together.
Here's the hank pile to show all the lovely colors.
And here's the ball. You can see how the colors change in the layers.
It'll be part of a sampler blanket I'm working on. It's using the log cabin technique (knit in garter st, bind off, turn your square/rectangle, pick up stitches along the side, knit in garter stitch, continue the process). I'm using samples, odds and ends and some of my handspun, all in fingering/sock/light dk weight. Because it'll eventually get too big for samples to work well, I think I'm going to do small blocks and then sew them together. That'll be easier to carry with me anyway.
I need to finish the strip I'm working on, turn and do one more strip, then start another piece. They may be different shapes, but I'll pieces them together and add strips as needed. It's an on-going, in-between projects, late night knitting sort of thing.
I also have some more Firefly-inspired batts to get up in the shop later today.
Zoe
Simon
Core Planet, Ariel's, bioluminescent lake
I'll be spinning up one of the "Simon" batts (because I can't resist) and posting is as handspun for sale in the shop as well.
If you didn't see, the core spinning tutorial on spinning with locks is up and running! Yay! Thank you to everyone who has already viewed it and left me some great feedback.
And on a non-fiber-y note, my son, Brendan, who is 12, made his first turned pen. He's planning on opening up his own Etsy shop and selling them! I'm so proud.
First pen!