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05:52 pm: Gnome Yarn!

05:43 pm: Piss Off!

05:41 pm: Cabaret

05:38 pm: City Lights

02:21 pm: Spinning with Fabric

02:19 pm: Spring Eternal

10:41 am: Spinning in Technicolor

I took part recently in a Fiber Sandwich swap- a swap where participants each send in various amount of fiber. All the fibers are then randomly layered into a huge sandwhich. However many ounces of fiber you sent in is how much of the sandwich is returned to you. Since I've always enjoyed playing with my food, I spun my fibers into a fine single and used it for plying wildly over a plain worsted weight black single. The result is a highly textured yarn that will produce some intresting results when knitted & felted.

Tags: spinning handspun yarn

10:20 am: Vintage Floral
 
This yarn was spun from a deconstructed shirt I found at a tag sale. It took about 30 minutes worth of attempts to finally get the fabric to spin up, as it's super slippery and kept slipping apart. I've spun in segments and subs of wool & silk and plied in vintage bobbles and bakelite beads on a sulky holoshimmer thread.

Tags: spinning handspun yarn

09:31 pm: KnitKnit7






One of my yarns was published in the latest issue of KnitKnit!!!

09:27 pm: Very Curious!


Experiments with spinning yarn end-cuts from Curious Creek Fibers...

09:20 pm: Caravan

09:01 pm: Crikey- Steve Irwin Tribute Yarn
This yarn was entered in the 2007 Bothwell Highland Fiber Festival's SpinIn in Tasmania. It was voted winner of the Amazing Yarn competition.

10:18 am: "SoHo Sweet"

10:12 am: "Ganja"

12:23 pm: "Radiation Soup"

Randomly spun scraps of wool wildly plied with glow in the dark thread.

12:11 pm: "Hot Chick"

Wool spun with angelina and novelty yarn, plied with rick rack, easter grass, beads, chenille chicks and viscose thread.

03:06 pm: "Fire Bubble"


Wool spun with snippets of Curious Creek's Abuko yarn, sparkly pompoms threaded on fuzzy red eyelash plied with orange viscose. The yellow coils have angelina carded in for added sparkle. So HOT!!!

02:43 pm: "Anarchy"


I've been a total lame ass about updating or even posting to LJ. I've got some serious catching up to do. This yarn is my tribute to the 80's punk scene. When knitted, this yarn absolutely needs small chains pinned to the safety pins as well as metal studs added. Some cool punk band buttons would be a major bonus.

07:35 pm: "Sugar Love"


Tags: handspun, spinning, yarn

01:21 pm: "Sizzle"

Hand cut woolfelt shapes threaded on snippets sparkly fun fur create a flame effect. Red sparkle pompoms were threaded on to fuzzy eyelash and also spun in along with generous amounts of angelina ruby flash. This was then plied with an orange viscose thread.