Handspun Cowl

Hand spun yarn is precious...it seems to cost a lot...but really it has a lot of time and thought involved in it. I love making yarn...and using it...but even after it is down to the last few yards I feel so guilty just sticking it in my stash...for "one day". So this week I gathered up some of my small yardage of hand spun...mostly mine but a couple of Luna's and made an eclectic cowl with them.

More from 2011

2012 arrived...and I still had so much to blog for 2011...why did I stop? Life got complicated. Now looking back I wish that I had blogged more of my year :-(

Here are some items from last year that I still want to share:



Cowl made from Mountain Colors...crocheted--made it up as I went :-)




Polworth from New Zealand by Maude & Me
Spun by me...plied with a lot of help from a friend ;-)



knitted into a hat for me!


Crocheted a baby hat while visiting my friend.

Hat to match a sweater I knitted back in the Spring.

Christmas Weaving Workshop








Uncle Jims Christmas Scarf


Sweater for Ruth

Welcome Avalon!!

I started this hat as soon as Avalon "was arriving"....welcome Little Avalon!! The yarn is my second handspun :-) The pattern is based on Trendy Baby Hat.

Come On Avalon!!

I am behind on my posting a little...a lot more behind on my projects!! But here is a little hat that I made for Avalon before she arrived. The yarn is from Northern Bay Handspun...a lovely spinner that I found on Etsy. The pattern is Trendy Baby Hat.

Yarn for Sarah

Okay Sarah...I will be mailing your yarn tomorrow! I hope you enjoy knitting it as much as I did spinning it ;-)
skein #6
58 yards
3.5 oz

My First Homespun Project!

My first project using my own yarn spun by MOI!

On the spools:


Plied:


All three yarns I spun that day:


My first time knitting in the round:


Baby Gnome hat---now to find a fat little baby to wear it!!


Fiber:Frabjous Fibers Merino Roving
Hat pattern:Trendy Baby Hat by Bethany Patchin

Knitting wasn't enough.........

So I bought a spinning wheel.
And I am learning to spin.
Everyone asks me why....
My answer: It is like cooking from scratch.

My wheel:

An Ashford Joy...double peddle.

My first yarn:

My Second:

Random Drop Stitch Scarf

The beginning of a scarf that I made for Trish...a simple random drop stitch...but it showed the yarn changes so nicely :-)

WIP Wednesday!!

I have this Work-In-Progress that hasnt been recieving much work or progress! So this Wednesday I am showing it hoping to motivate myself to get it done and be able to post in an upcoming Finished Object Friday :-)

This little bear blanket is going to be for a new baby in our church...I need to get it done she was born in March! My aunt had made a blanket like this for me and I could never find the pattern...so a really sweet vetern crocheter from my local yarn shop looked at the blanket and wrote the pattern out for me. You can get the pattern here





Linking up to:

Cherry Blossom Shawl

Pattern:  Flirty Shoulder Shawl by Michael del Vecchio
Yarn:  Cascade Lana Grande
Yarn source: Blueball Mountain Spindle and Needleworks

Eclectic Stole

Pattern: New England Stole by Lucia Tedesco
Yarn: Monet's Menageries

Shalom Cardigan

I am standing in the yarn store waiting to check out and staring at the handspun yarn on the wall.  Staring at it...feeling its loneliness wanting a home...but I can barely knit smooth milled yarn so I am definitely not up to tackling knubby yarn...looks a little too unruley for me.

Then for some reason I pull some off the wall and buy it.  I take it home and am no longer interested in the orginal project...all I can think about is knitting up that yarn.  I look through my stash and the lime green shines through. 

The rest is history...I was in love.

Pattern:  Shalom Cardigan

Yarn:  Lime: Plymouth

Handspun: Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks

Weaving!

I went to a weaving workshop today at Weavers Corner.

I can hardly wait to go back!
I made two dishcloths:

And a beautiful rug for my kitchen from the ugliest fabric remnants ever!!

Now I am totally in love with weaving ...how to get Bryan to buy me a floor loom?!

Irish Hiking Scarf

My fourth and final attempt at cables :-)
Yarn: cascade Eco+
Color: Turtle
Pattern: Irish Hiking Scarf
Yarn from Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks

Kenna's Hat

**Kenna here is your hat!  As soon as I am better I will bring it to you :-)

Hat details:
Pattern: The Oro Hat
Yarn: Cascade 220 Superwash {IcePink/Apple}
Yarn Source: Blueball Mountain Spindle & Needleworks