This dismal weather has affected the quality and color of my pictures. I need some good, dry, natural light. Every available horizontal flat surface is presently in use. There are no set-ups, only hand held shots. These taken at 1/6 sec. The Rhinebeck sweater will have to wait for the weekend. The spindled silk, well.. we'll make pretend the color is right. In real life it is a lovely soft pastel of peach and olive. Very light. The spinning isn't as even as I'd like, but given the conditions, I'm pleased. This was my first project spindling silk from the fold and it was a carry around, 10 minutes a day, or whenever project, so the conditions where more or less all over the place. Restaurants, nursing home, TV, meetings, doctor's offices, you get the picture. I kept the spindle in my bag and worked when I could. When you see the skein it looks pretty even. Close up, you can see the variation.
200 yds.
spindle: Forrester "Granny" style
purchased from: Little Barn
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13 responses to “spindled silk”
Mmmmm, silk! Purty!
Beautiful! I need to spindle more often.
That’s lovely!
A beautiful smiling silk skein! Thank you!
What they said, doubled.
You have incredibly steady hands for these pix and those in the last post. My tripod is my crutch.
That is some mighty fine spinning! Beautiful!
So pretty! And that’s pretty amazing yardage.
very pretty!
The sun’ll come out tomorrow . . .
I am amazed at how nicely your spindle-spun yarns always look when plied. Mine always look like crap. The singles appear fine, but not the plied once. Must work on that, I suppose.
The sun will come out tomorrow – or so they are saying.
Beautiful spinning!
Beautiful!