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yarny
A handspun yarn, I’m not sure what kind of wool it is, since I’ve lost the tags long ago.
And another photo collage, this time a self portrait.
Tag: handspun
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Thing 22. Weavette Squares
I wove a couple squares on my small Weavette loom from the handspun naturally coloured cotton that I posted a couple days ago (before my eclipse pictures). I love Weavettes because you can make something from small amounts of yarn but the last few rows are a bit tough on handspun. The yarn can get badly abraded, so you want to start with a fairly sturdy yarn. I hadn’t originally planned to ply the yarn, but after producing half a square of brown cheesecloth, I decided that plying would be a good thing. It wasn’t worth setting up my Schacht spinning wheel. I had wound the cotton single into a center-pull ball, so I plied it on a square whorl drop spindle and wove it straight off the spindle (didn’t bother setting the twist of the plying since it was going straight onto the Weavette and I was in a hurry).
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knitting
some knitting I started tonight. Yarn is a plyed, hand dyed and handspun yarn. It’s so skinny it’s almost threadlike.
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handspun
Last minute thing for the day. I plyed two super thing yarns I’ve spun and have been sitting on bobbins for months.
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handspun yarn and collage
I finished the merino handspun yarn. It was spun on my spinning wheel (a lendrum).
With another finished yarn, comes another photo collage, with said yarn.
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merino single
I finished this bobbin of a light magenta/red single. Hopefully, I’ll finish the other half tomorrow and ply them together.
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yarn photography
I’ve had this idea for a while. I’ve combined a picture of mine over a handspun yarn I’ve made. I really like the results.
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handspun, knit pendant
Two new pieces I finished this morning: These pendants came to me as a way to combine my different areas of interest, and is part of a larger collection of fiber based jewelry. I spun the fibers and knit to make these pendants. My vision for these pendants is a simple and basic design that will exhibit the the subtle variations of color and detail of materials.
