#hdyarns

new yarns

bright and pretty

When not spinning, I dye sock yarns to knit

the colors of the rainbow

OnCloud9 - big bright rainbow

For Sherlock Holmes and Doctor Watson

It’s no mystery to knitting socks -

Sending these lovelies to TheKnitGirllls‘ SSK (Super Summer Knitogether) - July 20th-24th, 2016

Bright and happy for a beautiful summertime knit.

Hand-pulled roving, the color of the Electric Rainbow, blended on my Strauch Finest.  

Corespun 2/3 of this blend,  adding in natural fiber caterpillars = 80yds (yarn ball on the right)

Last 10g of blend became rainbow caterpillars on natural corespun = 60yds (yarn ball on the left)

Enough lovely handspuns to knit simple shawl on US size 19.

The Dark Angel - 12-color carded fibers - in both solid and blended hand-pulled rovings.  These are the same colors of the Dark Angel sock yarn from HDYarns -

but what a different beast it is here

I am so busy setting up my fiber shop, which I will call BluecloudFibers.  It’s been a lovely process.

If you spin or felt or love working with  beautiful fibers, I think you will love what I have in store.

Electric Rainbow caterpillars crawling on my natural corespun

Dyed rovings:   World of Wool, Wingham Woolworks, some Ashland Bay

I am using dyed rovings from these fiber companies - because I need the extra time to blend fibers and to spin - worked out real well!  ;)

Electric Rainbow roving - carded blended:

- rovings in the 6 colors of the rainbow, carded once on Strauch Finest, then diz-ed into the finest fluffiest lightest roving I have ever felt!

- 15g of this roving went into spinning the beautiful colorful caterpillars crawling on my corespun (using Kraemer Sterling natural roving as base fiber)

- The rest is currently making magic on my Firefly

I think I can knit a funky beanie with this corespun yarn, perhaps on US size 19 needles? 

Bearded - handdyed handspun handknit project

fiber: merino/silk/sparkle

112g/262yds 14wpi

Simple triangle shawl on US size 10 needles