These are my four current *favorite* skeins. I have given myself permission to save 1 more. My personal policy is that i can save up to 5 skeins of yarn (full-size skeins) just because. I don't have any real plans about what to make with these but i love them too much to sell them. that's all. 
This is my newest favorite. It is a wool/silk blend that i spun, plied and then dyed.
This is an older skein that I also love. It is one of my first few spun from a *blended batt*.
This is a skein made from an accidental *blended batt*. I had a variety of purples, reds and blues and I blended them up to use up tiny bits of roving. I LOVE how saturated the color is.
This skein is my current oldest favorite. I love the color blend. I don't generally love these colors so much but in this skein i just can't resist.
These tiny skeins are also ones I can't seem to get rid of. I'm not sure what I'll do with them. But they are such fun I just can't sell them, and I'm not really sure what anyone else would do with them anyway. Most of them are *sample* skeins. When I create *blended batts* I usually find an even number (like 5.0 ounces or 150 grams or something) and keep the rest for myself to spin. That's where most of these little skeins come from. I still have a few more batts to spin that will give me similar size skeins. I'd like to find a shawl or similar pattern to make out these.
Those four skeins actually look good together because there is a uniting theme. There is that warm brown/orange in three of them and the blue/purple in at least two. You could also incorporate a few of the little ones as transitionals to make that shawl... hmmm.
ReplyDeleteHey, you have to have an example of your work on hand, right???? The colors are just yummy!
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