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let me indulge you in a secret. my absolute, least favorite thing... ...about spinning ...is...
drafting, yes, that's right. I said it... drafting.
I hate dislike it a whole lot. I find it rather tedious, time consuming, and frustrating. my hands are always super sore after, and it squashes my mood to spin.
...yet, I just can't spin without drafting. maybe my hands don't work fast enough, or I don't comprehend how it works - spinning and drafting, simultaneously. blasphemy!
hey there! it doesn't seem like anybody checks this, but I just wanted to share -
the event was set up by the Upper Delaware LGBT group, the Gays of Sullivan County. and all of the money made from donations will go to our local food pantries! it should be a crazy good time!
I will be set up by the stage selling my handspun yarn, and handknit woolly-winter-art-wear!
I already posted these in the knitting thread, but figured I'd share them here as well!
landscape, for a painter-friend of mine: many different fibers went into this painting; local llama, local cormo, local merino, local shetland, mill end wool, mohair, and a bit of superwash wool.
the business of being born (I started naming my hats after the documentary I watched whilst knitting. is that weird?? har har, some of them are a little bizarre...) hmm I can't find the picture of the other yarn I used... erg.
this one is for a good friend of mine who lost her family (llamas, sheep, goats, horses, bunnies) due to a silly technicality. I want her to know, she is appreciated for being such a loving lady, so I knit her a hat with her very own llama fiber!
hat knitting is soooo cathartic. I don't use any patterns, so they turn out whatever size and shape they want. I let the yarn decide :-)
I just finished a few more, so I'll post them soon!
freestyle, I always coo whenever I see angora. sooooo sofffft! MLF, wow! I admire your ambition. that frame loom is huge! k_cat, let us know how the dying goes!
ready for more porn??
I think I have more, but I don't want to overwhelm... haha. nikschaf was talking about creating a thread for finished objects in the spinning forum, so I'm going to set it up right now so I can show you guys what I knit some of these into!!
I've had an inch, or so, of left-over yarn on my bobbins for months now. I just attach whatever new fiber I'm working on, to the previous yarn, and spin away. and whatever doesn't get used from that bunch get's left on the bobbin as well. see my ever-accumulating dilemma? well I finally got sick of my cluttered bobbins the other day, and decided to ply all this abandoned yarn together. behold... scraptastica! 44 yards 4 WPI it's mostly merino. cochineal dyed, blue, black, red and purple. and when I ran out of the bobbin yarn, I went for my stash of knitting yarn! (I have bundles of left-overs ranging from one to ten yards) this chunky masterpiece will lend itself nicely to a thick winter hat!
what do you do with your left-overs?
edit!! here's the finished hat. I also used this yarn (sfuzz) (so much pink! haha) I think I need to spin up another one of these!!
I was a last-minute-axis-deer for halloween, so I threw on a dress I made a few years ago, painted my face (didn't have brown! so I mixed green/red and used eyeshadow to help blend. the eyeshadow made it all sort of gloppy, so I wouldn't recommend it), and crafted up some antlers. note, holding a felting needle in your mouth is never a particularly good idea! I needle felted the basic shape with raw merino wool (teeny tiny lanolin-filled locks! would definitely use processed wool if I did this again), wet felted a bit, then more felting with the needle to reinforce thin spots. they weren't as sturdy as I thought they'd be, so I jammed some heavy wire into them and now they're poseable!
the antlers were very shoddily sewn onto a thick headband. I may tidy it up at some point.
anyone hear of magic mend? it's a blend of oils that help ease joint/muscle pain. serrrrriously amazing for my arthritic, twenty year old, knitting hands!
landscape, for a painter-friend of mine: many different fibers went into this painting; local llama, local cormo, local merino, local shetland, mill end wool, mohair, and a bit of superwash wool.
the business of being born (I started naming my hats after the documentary I watched whilst knitting. is that weird?? har har, some of them are a little bizarre...)
this one is for a good friend of mine who lost her family (llamas, sheep, goats, horses, bunnies) due to a silly technicality. I want her to know, she is appreciated for being such a loving lady, so I knit her a hat with her very own llama fiber!
I just wish I were invincible so I could spin and knit a new creation each day. that would be glorious!
new york winters are brutal. and considering we are having a very long, very warm autumn season, I imagine this winter is going to be even more disturbingly brutal. so what have I been doing?
knhatting of course (hat-knitting??? hah!)
I dyed and spun all the yarn, except for the green and orange yarn in the second hat (thank you superhooker!)
there are a bunch more. I'm working on editing and uploading them to the interwebs
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