The first three photos show some 110gm hanks which came off a cone of 3ply Mohair from the now defunct Bendigo Mohair Farm. It was sitting in Mum's stash for nearly 30 years so after knitting it up into a scarf and a few pairs of light grey/brown socks I decided to attack it with some dyes! I am very pleased with the results too.
The horrible shrug from the last post has been replaced by this pattern and it is going together much better thankfully. Will help keep Sarah warmer than that cheap cotton on stuff that professes to be a jumper lol.
I dyed some alpaca tops from BWM last year and blended them on the drum carder so time back and got them all spun up a few weeks ago. Sadly there is no spinning happening here because silly me went crashing down in the main street last Friday when my left ankle gave way stepping off the curb onto the road. Also managed to wreck my right knee which is what is stopping me from spinning. Everything is still sore, puffy and bruised. The ankle will take ages to heal because I sprained it terribly about 6 years ago and it is going to take time. Mmmm not really happy about it but thats the way it goes.
My new flyer came about a fortnight ago and below is a pic of a standard bobbin next to the jumbo one that fits on it. I can now make huge skeins rather than little 100gm ones plus it also will allow me to make arty type yarns with the much bigger hole for it to go through. So the new wheel is now very much complete and will not need to purchase anything more for it. I did manage to get the poll dorset/merino cross done on it before I was so nicely put out of action lol. This is the first 300gms of a kilo finished that will become a jumper. Going to be a long process if I keep getting distracted by pretty colours and blends.
I've also done a little shopping over the past month too. This lot is from Kathy's fibres in SA and contains some lovely bits which I will use on my blending board for some fun. I also bought some of her sparkle which is similar to angelina which will take the dyes I use easily. Will blend and spin up white and then have fun dyeing it to suit a project. There is also 100gms of optim tops which everyone on the spinning site talks about. Thought it would be fun to give it a go.
These dyes I picked up from Colleen over in Kyabram when I visited her for the morning about a month ago. So I am all set now for fibre to spin and dyes to colour it lol. No more spinning spending will be done until the year 2016 lol. Well apart from when I run out of a certain colour or something. Its nice knowing that birthday money has been well spent and Christmas is all organised for me too. Yes it involves fibre.
So the word is out that yes I love spinning and things are being shorn all over the place so fleece will soon be arriving and the best part is it wont cost me a cent lol as it has taken some dedicated saving to get me all set up over the last 18 months.
Have a lovely weekend,
katherine
4 comments:
You are just amazing. I don't know where to start to comment. I love the colour blends in the mohair. How good are you and your mum at storage to have kept it in good shape for so long!
You have certainly stocked up on yarn and dies - and more to come. It's great that you are all set up to go. You just need to stay on your feet!
I'm really sorry about your fall. I had a minor one last weekend - tripped on uneven paving and went down hard on my knees and hands. Fortunately, it was only bruising - limited my stitching for 2 days but that's all. You did a lot more damage. Hope it heals quickly. It is also frightening when it happens (and embarrassing). I guess you are still finding plenty you CAN do with the bits not affected.
Take care.
I am very sorry to hear about your ankle! (And Jillian's fall too!) I am knocking on wood like crazy right now, because I used to be a chronic ankle sprainer (and one break), but I've been lucky for several years now. Knock on wood! Maybe the silver lining of my bad back is that it's slowed me down and saved my ankles!
But, at least you'll have lots of knitting time! I'm looking forward to all the creative things you'll do with your great new stash. Be well!
All I got was no more spending until 2016? What????? How can you possibly do that? Seriously, sorry to hear you have injured yourself - hope it heals nicely and quicker than you anticipate so you can get back to spinning and I L.O.V.E the cardigan pattern - can't wait to see it1
I hope by this time you have healed quite well. Re-injury is so annoying and so slow to heal!
A wonderful substitute pattern, I, like the others couldn't make head nor tail of that other dodgy one :)
It is such fun spending when you have saved up for the purpose, feels in an odd way like you have been earning it, much less guilt ;) You have picked up some lovely bits to play with :)
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