Spinning Along
My cashmere/silk yarn is done. This is 2 oz, and about 225 yards. The plying still isn’t perfectly even, but I don’t care. I’m happy with the way this came out anyway. And regardless of the plying’s consistency, the yarn is pretty consistent in size, so . . . and, did I mention? Silk and Cashmere. Can anybody spell SOFT? The only problem? While I was perhaps over-enthusiastically thwacking it against my shower walls on Sunday, one strand got caught on the shower-head and broke. (The yarn, that is, not the shower.) So, there’s just a little bit of a problem there when I go to wind this into a skein some day, but, well, these things happen, right?
This is what I’m spinning right now. Superwash, silk, and nylon from Franquemont Fibers. It’s beautifully-prepared stuff, and great colors. (Boy, does it ever coordinate with my gold-and-red bedroom!). I agree with Theresa that the nylon makes it just a little rougher on the hands than just merino and silk would be, but not enough to make me stop spinning, and it spins up just beautifully. The colors are really fabulous.
Then, this fiber came today. I finally broke down and ordered some from Spunky Eclectic–that’s four ounces of Blue-Faced Leister in the “Vineyard” color. How could I resist a name like that?
And, um, did you hear about the Knitpicks Book Sale?
And–thanks for the entries so far on my Millennial post. You people are really excellent at sucking up! Keep it coming . . . Chappy and I will try to prevent our heads from swelling….
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Ooooh, those colors are great! Nice book haul…my ‘charmed knits’ came today too! DS wants me to make him Errol!
Oooh such pretty yarns! Such cool books! And right at your fingertips.
Ooh so pretty – that came out so nice. I have not tried Abby’s stuff yet – but if people keep posting like this I see me breaking down soon. Yeah – I did a little mini book splurge there also. Sort of hard to resist that price. Thankfully by the time I hit the IK damaged book sale there was nothing left of interest to me
ok, i’ve been avoiding the links to that book sale, but my anniversary is coming in september (isn’t the first anniversary the paper anniversary, lol?)
so i sent the link to hubbie. he likes it when i do that, lol
I got the Selbuvotter book too, and I almost picked up that braids book. Between my KP book package and the IK Hurt Book Sale, my mailman is not going to be happy with me…I haven’t tried Abby’s fibers yet, but I will eventually have to see what the fuss is about. Spunky Eclectic’s stuff is just plain old wonderful.
That yarn is just gorgeous. I’m drooling over the Franquemont fibers roving. It spins up just great!
I surprisingly couldn’t find a book at the Hurt Book sale that I wanted and didn’t already have. I’ve been keeping an eye on the Franquemont fibers offerings but so far none has spoken to me. Enjoy the Spunky BFL. They’re all wonderful!
Love!
Love it all. The yarn, the fiber, the books. Love!
Gorgeous spinning all around!
Pretties! Look at the pretties! I’m pretending there isn’t a book sale. It’s working very well so far.
The cash/silk is GORGEOUS! But then again, you know about my favorite colors, right?
Your spinning looks great! I’m way behind on blog posts but I’m trying to catch up…
Mmmm, booook sale. I browsed and made a sizeable wish list. After a peek at what my LYS will be putting out for Crazy Days….I expecting to binge. Enjoy your books (and especially their prices) for me.
Your cashmere/silk handspun came out GREAT. I have to laugh about the one broken strand–might have been better if the shower head/faucet had taken one for the team….