well...it's snowing again....I had a great performance last night at the Song Writer's Invitational at the Sturgis Center for the Arts. It went well...
Yesterday I did some really pretty silk for a friend. I made two skeins, one purple kool-aide which look distinctly like logwood dye and a beautiful deep green. They are some of the prettiest colors I've ever gotten. Silk dyes so fabulously well. I'll post pictures later.
so...snow and spinning. I wonder how much women in the middle ages looked out at the snow and spun their wool?
rita n/
Saturday, April 30, 2005
Friday, April 29, 2005
Thursday, April 28, 2005
new yarn and wool
wow!
it's been a busy week. I haven't been spinning nearly as much as i'd like lately. but I do have these four neat skeins...three of them coordinate. one is just silliness.
what do you think of the handdyed wool? I really love them both but can't decide which is nicer...or what to call either of the colorways. any thoughts?
rita n/
it's been a busy week. I haven't been spinning nearly as much as i'd like lately. but I do have these four neat skeins...three of them coordinate. one is just silliness.
what do you think of the handdyed wool? I really love them both but can't decide which is nicer...or what to call either of the colorways. any thoughts?
rita n/
tomorrow we dye
OK--well not tomorrow....yesterday.
I started combing out my pretty white wool and dying it in smallish lots. My husband says I'm an ADHD spinner. I get bored quickly. But this is stuff I may not spin, I may sell it unspun on ebay. I combed it carefully....getting rid of lots of VM and short bits and dyed it.
I've done 2 bunches so far. One is pink, purple and blue and one is lightish blue and purple. the light one looks very Easter egg-ish. they are both super nice!
rn/
I started combing out my pretty white wool and dying it in smallish lots. My husband says I'm an ADHD spinner. I get bored quickly. But this is stuff I may not spin, I may sell it unspun on ebay. I combed it carefully....getting rid of lots of VM and short bits and dyed it.
I've done 2 bunches so far. One is pink, purple and blue and one is lightish blue and purple. the light one looks very Easter egg-ish. they are both super nice!
rn/
Wednesday, April 27, 2005
it's snowing!
well, after a week of shirt sleeves and occassionally even shorts we woke up to, yes you guessed it, snow!!! SD does need the moisture so, we can't complain. we're so dry forest fire season has already started. Hopefully this will help.
rita
rita
Tuesday, April 26, 2005
washing wool
well....I've spent my evening washing wool. I have so much that for the first time ever I am just throwing away the yucky stuff. I used to wash everything and do something with it cuz I didn't have much. But today it hit me...I have three huge bags in my garage and more coming, why am I conserving? I hate throwing away usable but this is all short crappy wool (literally crappy in some cases). anyway. washing wool can be so fulfilling in a sort of weird way. you take this terrible looking stuff and spend a little time and produce something really nice. I like the way my hands feel when I am done sorting out the nice stuff too. I have learned that if you sort out the nice locks before you wash it, carding, or flicking, which is what i do, goes waaaaaaaaaaaaaay faster.....
so I've starting selling dyed washed wool on ebay. it is interesting that it sells for so much more washed and ready to card or ready to spin that it does raw. but like golem I likes 'em raw ('n' wriggly...ok not wriggly).
so....I need to get more pics up....
see yah.
rita
so I've starting selling dyed washed wool on ebay. it is interesting that it sells for so much more washed and ready to card or ready to spin that it does raw. but like golem I likes 'em raw ('n' wriggly...ok not wriggly).
so....I need to get more pics up....
see yah.
rita
Sunday, April 17, 2005
Friday, April 08, 2005
New yarn --wow it's been awhile
Hey--
Today I got new yarn...lots of interesting bits and pieces. The "playing with purple" is just that. I threw some silk and some llama and some wool all in a dye pot together. then I carded it together and spun it. it is quite pretty but not soft. The lace weight blue silk is really soft though. I'm really proud of it...it is some of the most even really fine stuff I've spun. The two bulky wool yarns are really fun. The natural white is kind of unusual for me but it was so pretty I just couldn't make myself dye it....
so what's your favorite?
I have some very pretty purple and blue llama coming and some orange llama and some autumn llama. funny...I go in spurts right now I guess i'm really into llama. a friend sent me some first sheering of a llama. It took more than 9 months to arrive and now i'm really having fun with it.
rn/
Today I got new yarn...lots of interesting bits and pieces. The "playing with purple" is just that. I threw some silk and some llama and some wool all in a dye pot together. then I carded it together and spun it. it is quite pretty but not soft. The lace weight blue silk is really soft though. I'm really proud of it...it is some of the most even really fine stuff I've spun. The two bulky wool yarns are really fun. The natural white is kind of unusual for me but it was so pretty I just couldn't make myself dye it....
so what's your favorite?
I have some very pretty purple and blue llama coming and some orange llama and some autumn llama. funny...I go in spurts right now I guess i'm really into llama. a friend sent me some first sheering of a llama. It took more than 9 months to arrive and now i'm really having fun with it.
rn/
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