al dente crafting

Handspun yarn I finished yesterday, 2ply, fingering weight, about 180 meters and 50 grams. One ply is world of wool's Dusty Raven Berry, link below the cut. The other ply is a blend that a friend of mine designed, consisting of about 50% Dusty Raven Berry, 25% Peacock (also from World of wool, a blue/teal wool mix with golden glitters), 25% black merino/nylon glitter blend and a bunch of orange mohair locks. He chose the colours, I made a bat on my blending board, and spun the yarn. I realized that plying his blend back on itself would be too busy for my taste, so I used the pure Dusty Raven Berry as the other ply (that was an abandoned single from another project, so also very satisfying to get to use now). As you can see, the mohair locks kinda misbehaved during the wet finishing, the yarn has a few loops now here and there. Not a problem, just a happy little accident.

I asked a bunch of my friends, all non-spinners, some of them artists, to make/design fiber blends for me, and I am having so much fun seeing what they do, and spinning the yarns. They make choices that fall outside of the 'rules', which expands my own conception of what is possible and how things will work.

lil sneak peak of my test knit now that i am on to the body ⫘⫘⫘

So far I have set up a premium spot for processing the fiber (streaming d20 with my partner out in the [almost] summer air)

But it does come with the occasional fleece predator I have to be on the lookout for.

Guess who kinda accidentally/not so accidentally blacked out (metaphorically) and spun up 200g of Corriedale in three days? That's right, it's me.

Featuring Miss Lilly modelling the newest wool chique. Unrelated? Perhaps. Cute? Definitely.

Spun this mini project as I learn to spin tinner, its a 2ply attempt at fingering weight and I did pretty well!!

My bobbins are cleared and now ready for TdF!

Latest spinning shenanigans: just finished the last spindle’s worth of Exmoor horn wool. It was lovely to spin, but it’s not a very soft wool, so I’m not sure what I’ll do with the finished yarn.

I’ve also discovered that my hands really, really don’t want me to knit (nothing quite like being woken up at night because a finger tendon has locked up in a joint and I have to physically unhook it), so maybe I should look into small weaving setups instead.

This is what I was printing last night! It certainly works. The whole thing is 19g, shaft and all, which is a weight I really like for a cross arm! Unfortunately the spin duration is not very good despite the width, though it spins nice and fast which I like. I’m going to add some weight to the arms of this one to see if the spin improves some. I’m also going to try printing one that is smaller but denser, since that seems to be a common factor in the cross arms that I really like using.

𖧧 more glowworm yarn, two different plies