For love of sock yarn
Remember how I said I'd made sock yarn? Well now I have pictures! I'm pretty tempted to let the pictures express how very, very excited I am to have made fingering weight yarn that's enough for socks!!
The Fiber:
4 oz. BFL fiber from The Painted Sheep, in the Dublin Bay colorway
I divided this in half lengthwise, and then for half A I split it again, for half B I split it lengthwise four times, following a trick I saw on Ravelry about making space-dyed roving into barberpole-striped yarn.
(Click to make any of these bigger in Flickr!!)
Spinning the fiber:(Click to make any of these bigger in Flickr!!)
All bundled up as a pretty little skein:
What we have here is 380 yards, 4 oz., fingering weight. It's not superwash, but it sure sounds like sock yarn to me!
I think I'm in love. I'm half tempted to pull out the sock needles right now and cast on to watch this yarn make socks! The other half wants to stare at it, squeeze and pat it. It's soft. It's squishy. It's enough for socks. I'm a happy, happy spinner. I think I'll hang onto it a bit before turning this FO back into a WIP.
As we close this week and come to the weekend, I only hope you find something fibery that makes you quite this happy!
8 comments:
Oh my gosh, you are a spinning machine.... the yarn is gorgeous- you so have to teach me to ply!
How beautiful! What fun to be involved from beginning to end ... can't wait to see the socks that are knit out of that!
Yay! Your spinning has improved by leaps and bounds lately!! Go ahead and bust those needles out. You deserve it!!
P.S. Sorry about the article not getting accepted. I'm sure you'll have better luck the next time around.
Wow, really impressive. As I've said before, I know nothing about spinning, but that start to finish explanation helps me figure it out a little more!
Beautiful! Looks like sock yarn to me too! I agree so knit that up now!
Pretty! I'd love to be able to ply that evenly - any tips?
It looks great, I can't wait to see the socks.
I love that technique, and kudos to you on making your own sock yarn.
Very pretty on the spinning - great job!
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