Little did I know when I went to
my favorite little wool store for my first knitting class that I would be totally addicted in four weeks! My mom tried to get me to try it for years and I just wasn't interested. The only reason I wanted to try it now was to knit some of my own yarn! I just thought it would be fun to take my boys fiber, card it, spin it, dye it and then knit it. Little did I know that I would want to knit all of the time and I wouldn't care what kind of yarn!
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| What??? My wool is turquoise? |
My teacher and owner of
WC Mercantile, Stephanie, gave me a project Friday when I left the store to card fiber and spin over the weekend! I have not been at the wheel, but I did complete the cowl I began on Friday and have begun a different size bowl. I wanted to see what they would be like half the size of the first ones I made. I think little bowls would be great to have on a kitchen counter or dresser to drop my rings in before dishes or bed and so that is under way. Just realized the bowls have been on FB but I haven't thought to blog about them. They are really my first project, but with purchased wool. They are fun to make and have been my instruction to knitting in the round and circular needles! I will do a post soon.
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| Colors blended very well! |
I took the 68 yds. I had spun to Navasoto with me this week and Steph helped me dye it and I dyed two smaller pieces as practice earlier in the week. That's why I took my longer piece to get help with the dyeing - my practice pieces were pretty one dimensional and I didn't want that for my longer yarn. I loved how it turned out and Steph said I could add the two smaller balls in to use it all together. That made me happy because one of the smaller pieces was spun from Lefty's fiber! The rest was wool, but I was so excited to have fiber from one of my boys in my first piece. Friday I started knitting my art yarn (that's yarn with personality) and finished the cowl on Saturday. It was a good thing I had the two extra balls of yarn as it was barely long enough, but I like it and now I can wait a couple of months before it's cold enough to wear it!
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| Yarn was thick and thin and a hoot to knit! |
I have to admit that if my mom saw my knitting and my yarn she wouldn't be real impressed! I'm afraid she would put it with the girls I used to paint and my red hair as things she just didn't really understand! I do have to learn some spinning fundamentals as Bill wants a scarf from the boys fiber and the project Stephanie gave me is to card fiber from the boys, spin it and get ready to knit! My yarn will have to be a little more consistent to make a good scarf for Bill, so I will be doing a lot of practicing.
I love art yarn and this would sort of qualify - mine is thick and thin by accident and true art yarn would be spun with purpose, but it is fun. I wish you could see the tiny little coils that are complete opposites from the huge pieces with almost no twist at all. I seem to go from too much twist to no twist, but I love spinning, so with time my yarn will get better (I hope) and created with purpose. We have exciting workshops coming in March with Jacey Boggs (
Ply Magazine). She has written books and done DVD's on art yarn and I'm beyond excited to take a two day class with her and then have her in attendance at our Spin In!
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| Ready to be joined and worn in about two months! LOL |
So this is my first project from roving to yarn to cowl! I still have to join it together and then I'll be able to use it in about two months or so. I love it with all of it's booboos (hard to see with funky yarn) and all. My first but sure not going to be my last!
Be back in a day or so with the felted bowls!
