Happy Halloween !
Yes, I really did stumble onto this in the woods…
… still want to walk with me Wednesdays ??
😉
** typepad got a bit wonky yesterday.. somehow this post must have showed up for a bit, ’cause I got comments. Weird, it was scheduled for Tuesday.
Remember Bess? I’ve spun quite a bit o’ Bess in the past year. Every bobbin is different. In some cases, very different. They can be light grey to charcoal, or maybe even to brown. It’s made me wonder how to handle the irregular tones in a project. I could dye it. I could separate it into like colors and use it for many different projects. Of course, there will be assorted projects. Bess started out at 9lbs. Saturday, as I sat playing with the Turkish spindle and a handful of Bess, it came to me. I would blend it with something with color, not too much, but enough to shift it to a tweed. And there, next to me, was a lovely bag of roving from the Persimmon Tree. Barn 31? It’s always in the same place at the very end of the barn. Lovely stuff, usually a wool / mohair / maybe some llama, in luscious colorways.
My first thought was to make one bobbin of bess and another of the multi and then ply them barber pole. When knitted they would make a pronounced tweed. I spun a bit on my spindle to test it out. Nice. Not quite what I wanted. I decided to blend it with the carder.
I’m having fun with it. For every few hand fulls of Bess I put on the carder, I put a layer of multicolored fiber.
If you live in the Northeast, you know that the weekend was wet and very windy; snowy too, depending on how far north you were. That meant I had plenty of time to spend indoors. Saturday was the monthly Spin In at RI Handspun, That got me going on my spinning. By the time I went home, I’d managed to ply up a couple bobbins of Lincoln I had spun during the summer and spin a bobbin of a medium brown Austalian wool that I picked up somewhere and wanted to think about. I’ve been spinning and dyeing the Lincoln all summer, a couple skeins at a time, to use for a rug hooking project I’ve been thinking about. It was also time to clear some bobbins in preparation for the Gathering this coming weekend. By dinner time Sunday I felt like I had accomplished something. It’s been a while since I had a spinning weekend. Felt great.
Great idea for handling those variations that occur!(I may have to try that sometime)…
And Greta always has quality roving..you have made a beautiful blend!
That is gorgeous! You have a drum carder? Is it in the Kingdom? If so, maybe you WILL convince me to make a drive up there. I’ve got that Polwarth that needs to be carded or combed, and I have neither tool. 🙂
Oh, those batts! Simply gorgeous! I’m glad you had a productive weekend. All we did was socialize. 😉
I got some roving from Persimmon Tree too- in the colorway Blueberry. Great idea to mix the two. The basket is lovely- also from Rhinebeck. I eyed one and walked away- mistake.
I give up…couldn’t find Bess with your link. So, what kind of sheep is she, anyway? I’m processing the nine pound Romney that followed me home from Rhinebeck and am looking for ideas!
Lovely! Apparently it was the weekend for spinning. I filled up 2 bobbins of singles myself (and did a little knitting and weaving, just to put the icing on). 🙂
Bess is beautiful! Love the bit of color you’ve added.
Love the hints of color! Looking forward to seeing this yarn knit up.
The Turkish spindle wasn’t the only thing I recieved from Turkey last weekend. A friend, recently returning from a trip to Istanbul, brought me, well.. guess what it is (the scrunchy orange and cream thing..).
I’ll put the answer in the comments so you can’t peek easily. I wish I had thought to have him look for spindles at the bazaar.
Here’s a hint. It fits.
**ouch! having never posted a comment to my blog, I did not know about the security letter thing that was there. I hate those things. How very irritating. Either it is a Typepad thing, and I don’t think that’s it, or I did it accidentally.
a blouse!
Definetly a top!
BTW, I love the header picture.
Love the ‘blouse’. I’ve seen them in boutiques but yours is more interesting than any I’ve seen. Will you model it?
Oh and you only get the security if you recently commented on another Typepad blog.
Dang, I’m pretty sure we’re going to need to see that thing modelled.
I’m guessing it’s a shirt.
Love the colors! It looks like it’s made of flower petals!
Looks like a PDA cover? I’m bad at these. I for one don’t mind typing in codes…it stops you from getting spam in your comments 😉
Typepad added that thing automatically a few months ago but you can take it off if you don’t want it there. Go to the weblogs tab, click the blog you want to fix and then click feedback. Unclick CAPTCHA and you should be all set.
You’re kidding, right?
It’s one of those massively expandable shirts, right?
I’m thinking it’s a tube top. Or a yarn bra.
haha what a funny looking top.
A blouse! I never would have guessed it.
Darn, I was hoping it was a toast cozy. 🙂
Definitely a top- one size fits all. My daughter had one a few years ago. It’s amazing how they shrink back the their original size after.
The thing to the left of it is an evil eye. I grew up with those in Greece.
It’s a cat cosy! LOL. OK, you already said it is a top. 🙂
Oh! I was convinced it was one of those bathing caps. Now, we have to see you wearing it, lol.
My mind’s a blank, but all I can think of when I look at that picture is a piece of toast. . . (grin)
I know those things. It’s a heckofa package, and not always flattering. But it’s a textile gifyt, which in my book, is extra points for thought. Is yellow your colour?
My daughter owned a couple of those. They stretch like no tomorrow. One size fits all.
A blouse?!! Holy crap! Crazy.
A blouse!
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Sure! I love an adventure.
I’m walking……..Not much can scare me now,after my plane ride home last night..LOL!
GREAT pic!
Yikers. I’ve seen lots of ’em off the hand, and they never look that good. *evil grin*
Please oh please tell me that’s a mannequin.
Oy. City living, that’s for me.
Sure…as long as you confirm it’s just a glove…
That’s so creepy, Judy!!
Jeepers, you trying to give me nightmares???
Now I want to walk with you EVEN MORE.
You walk in front…OK?
Great find! Happy Halloween!
Oh dear, maybe I am not yet awake but first I saw four amazing fungi, then four hot dogs/wieners and then realised they were fingers. LOL
Happy halloween to you too.
Mushrooms?
so.cool.
I’ll walk, as long as it’s not after dark…
that is creee-peeey….Boo to you too!
What a wonderful creepy picture!
OK… this is driving me crazy! Is this mushrooms, or a fake hand, or a body? You HAVE to tell me or I’m going to go nuts!
creepy!