Scarfy Thing

I am working on knitting up the hot chocolate with marshmallows yarn.  Unfortunately, I am not as pleased with it as I thought.  I don't like the randomness of the slubs.  I also think they kind of look like grubs which is kind of gross.  I think it would have been better if I just spun a think and thin yarn instead of looking for a concept like hot chocolate with marshmallows.  Another thing that made it harder is that the yarn is a bit overspun and has a lot of variety.  The slubs are close to 2 wpi, where the thinnest yarn (usually overspun) is around 20.  I settled on size 10 needles, which were too small for the slubs...  I'm thinking about adding buttons to make it wearable.

Hot Chocolate and Marshmallows scarfy thing

In other news, I am getting yarn ready to dye with koolaid.  I am also hoping to participate in the 2012 Tour de Fleece for the first time this year and excited about MOAR SPINNING!

Marshmellows

Hot chocolate with marshmellows is one of my favorite things.  I'd seen  brown wool with white silk noils on esty that I wanted to buy, but it was a bit out of my price range.  However, I bought a grab bag from another seller to practice with.  She included a brown and white (not quite sure what to call it) roving and I immediately thought of hot chocolate with marshmellows.  I decided to attempt to incorporate what I'd learned about coiled yarns as well.  (video here from dyingwitch)

I ended up fighting my wheel a little.  The delta orifice was large enough to take the coils, but not the butterfly hooks.  I also had more lace weight than thick and thin, so when I ran out of the thick and thin I just plyed the lace weight with itself.

I don't have pictures of the thick and thin roving, but here is the lace weight:

And here is the finished product on the bobbin.  I didn't have time to unwind it last night  The lace weight (I don't know what kind of fiber it is) turned out a little fragile and I had issues with it breaking as I plied the coils.

The picture only shows 1 1/2 of the marshmellows.  I hope to update this post with more pictures.  The end was only lace weight.  I am trying to figure out what to make with the yarn when it is finished.

I also need to create labels for the handspun I made for a swap.  I have to finish the yarn, measure WPI, and make a label.  Hopefully finishing it on the niddy noddy will allow me to measure it so I can include that on the label as well.