After the live show, during which I had internet problems, I set up an album containing pictures of the felted hats, knit shawls, hand dyed roving, top, and yarns, as well as a little of my hand spun yarn.
Thanks for your interest in my small business.
For anyone interested in using fibers or shopping for things made from fibers check out this 4-day show https://issuu.com/terramiakat/docs/holidaymarket.ver11?fr=sOTZhMDIyMTEzMzM&fbclid=IwAR1tDHvMCzE968S2JWjgV3wB9UgNqvaxix4jnqYVt_8uIIGYnVfF0i4B1ys
I am privileged to be in this month’s show on November 27th from 4:00 – 4:30 pm EST ! I with be showing hand dyed fiber and yarn, hand spun yarn, as well as felted hats and knit shawls. This is only a portion of the things I make, but it feels so good to finally be doing a show. Stop by, this is the year for remote shopping and I’ve been very happy to have been able to shop some of the wonderful vendors who participate in this Facebook group. https://www.facebook.com/groups/wafalive
Now I have to get back to practicing the video part of the new things I’m learning.
Have a Happy Thanksgiving All.
This is a special post to show pictures of a custom order that I am working on for a special lady. The rest of my readers will have to just look and admire the colors she chose for me to combine for her knitting projects. I’ve been wet plying the yarn and using my click reel to measure and skein the finished yarn.
The first is a 3-ply linen of red, gray and black. The actual colors are about halfway between these two pictures.
Big skeins I wind on my click reel.
red, black and gray plied
Next is a 4-ply light gray, orange, hot pink, and light chartreuse. I like the way the two bright colors joined to contrast the two lighter colors, but it’s hard to see from the picture.
gray, hot pink, orange, and light chartreuse
And then there is a picture of the first skein of the ultra thin skein that I wound, it tangled and broke when using my swift with my ball winder, I finally wound the rest of it by hand onto a cone and haven’t started plying that combination yet. I did wind another set of four cakes tonight so will soon have another colorway plying on my wheel.
really fine linen yarn, ready to ply
This week on Monday at spinning guild I started working on 8oz of fiber that I had dyed last month. I spun more that night and Tuesday, by Wednesday I had two spools of 4oz each and plied them together. (Took me longer to get the pictures on my computer and edited 🙂
Dyed merino top
dyed top, spread cross-wise and on bottom as dyed.
For the top I had chosen colors that reminded me of an early fall forest, the blue-green of spruce trees, a touch of orange for early turning leaves, and of course the brown of twigs and trunks.
see the color rearrange as spun
When I started spinning it, the wool transformed into more subtle, softer shades of these colors, transforming my mid-day forest into one viewed in early morning or late dusk.
single on spool compared to un-spun top
At this point I could have chosen to ply it with a dark single to make the colors pop a little again, but the softness of the shading was asking to be kept together. I now have two skeins, one of 200yds and one of 84yds. Time to set the twist, label them and add them to my craft show inventory.
finished skeins of yarn
And of course, I must decide what will be next on my wheel. Have a happy fiber-filled week.
And please leave a comment to let me know what your favorite colors of yarn are?
A few posts back, a fiber day, I pictured my experiments of dyeing merino wool a golden shade. My last spinning project was to take 2 ounces of each of those shades to spin separately and then ply together. I ended with one 100yd skein that really shows the differences in shading and a second 60yd skein that combines the lighter parts of the darker top with the more yellowish gold.
Merino top being spun with a slight over-twist to ply.
Spinning the first top on my louet wheel
Two singles ready to ply
Turning singles into a two-ply
Plied yarn winding on spool
Yarn, 60yds on nitty-noddy and 100yds in skein.
And a different spinner might end with completely different results. That is part of the fun of spinning dyed roving or top.
I feel that in learning more about blogging I am actually learning to craft a website.
The Day Two assignment of checking and possibly changing my title and tagline is a lot like choosing which fiber to use to spin a new yarn. Do I want my yarn (or blog) to be a thin silk, used for special occasions, a two-ply wool, to snuggle through the long winter, or a durable linen, to withstand the tests of time and use?
I have been Mulch and More since the beginning of my business as explained on my home page, so only a slight change of spacing made my title more readable.
I want my blog to have the endurance of linen while maintaining a luster of silk and the welcoming warmth of wool. Only the test of time will tell if I can master the skills needed to craft a useful blog.
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