Tdf day 5

I like this a lot more than I thought I would. Iced grapes and Pomegranates.

TDF day 4

I dyed this wool with koolaid and accidentally felted it a little bit. I'm spinning it with some scraps of silk and angelina.

TDF Day 3

Sadly over spun...

Tour de Fleece

Day two

Tour de Fleece, Day 1

Here are pics. Not too happy with the roving, but it was in a grab bag. I figured yellow would be a good place to start.

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!

Silkies

I tried spinning silk matawas this after noon and I didn't enjoy it.  The instructions I had read advised scrubbing ones' hands with a sugar scrub.  My hands felt so soft after the sugar and olive oil rub, and that was nice.  However, The silk catches on everything.  The stubble on my legs, my housemate's shoes... Everything.

My rhythm of spinning yarn did not work with the silk.  I had difficulty pre drafting because I drafted too thin and then got tangled.  I had a hard time spinning consistently.

Eventually, I settled into something that kind of worked: I took one layer of the hankie, stretched it out, and pre drafted it the length of my arms- about 5.5 feet.

I think I spun about half the hankie.  I'll post pictures later.