BLUE TOE SPINNER

These are some of the skeins we looked at during last month's Guild meeting. Too pretty to overlook. Ahhhh!  Fiber! Update on the progression of Jill's Scarf. My very first doubleweave. It is seamed at the right and left edges to create a tube.  Pretty darn neat if you ask me. A couple need acquistions.  Awesome raddle for back to front warping on a loom. The other end, just as awesome. Cone-stand for cone yarn, to make warp wrapping easier. Another angle.  I bought the raddle and cone-stand from Fiber Artist Supply Co .  Extremely reasonable prices for completely awesome stuff. And the spindle I haven't shown, but I think it is my favorite.  This is a Navajo Spindle. It is tall enough to spin off your thigh and with the spindle touching the floor.  There isn't a hook on this spindle, because you spin off the point of the spindle. Next two guild meetings (MMAWG and WWH) are Holiday Parties!!  Whoo Hoo!!

I offered to spin and knit a scarf for my co-worker's wife Jill.  Her husband said Jill might like to see the process...so, I am documenting the process on my blog.  I hope you all will enjoy it.  This is the roving I picked, Jill likes natural colors, and her husband gave it a two-thumbs approval.  The roving is from Greenwood Fiberworks , the colorway is Cherry Cola, one of my favorite colorways. This is a better picture to show the colors. This is a pic of the tag.   And here we are starting the spinning process.  I will be spinning it fine and do a navajo (chain) ply, drafting from the one end of the roving to the other end.  This is how fine I am spinning it.  So, when it is plyed it will be a nice lace weight. I will not be spliting the roving at all so I can keep the color pattern the same as the roving. This will give the scarf bold wide striping effect. I have done it before with another scarf and loved the effect. This is the progression w...

Do you remember this little project I started earlier this year?  The Petal Vest. I actually finished it.  I call it my Conversion Project, because knitting it was my happy place during my company's core processor change.  Thus the conversion. I think it turned out quite nicely.  I love Helene Rush's patterns!! I was fortunate enough to be able to attend Amelia Garripoli's Workshop a couple weekends ago.  Held at the Pioneer Craft House  Here is Amelia, teaching Long Draw.  I was actually able to do it by the end of the class. Look at all the beautiful spindles we where able to play with.   We did fantastic things with drum carders. Jill and David played with Cyndi's Super Carder. Kathleen and Cathy carding self-striping roving. Amelia checks on our progress with long draw. Only two of the pieces that when home with me.  An Akha spindle for spinning cotton and Angel Wings for support spindles. Amelia helping Bakti set up her Charka....