#yarn making

[cloudcalm]

a quick guide on how to make yarn!

[ezekiellsplayground]

I managed to ply, wash, & thwack 10 skeins of yarn over just a few days! 🫣

I am thankful for our Australian summer heat which dried these skeins right out overnight.

[ciriceart]

Made a big weird thing of yarn with a drop spindle and a collection of miscellaneous fibers and tiny pieces of scrap yarn harvested from the crafting rooms and supply closets of friends. There’s some wild textures and color combinations in there and I plan to make even more and then have one of my friends attempt to knit with it. I can’t wait to see how much it sucks and in which ways.

[janiemogami]

Today I tried out making some yarn out of plastic bags. This is two bags' worth, which I'm gonna try crocheting with to make baskets or maybe dish scrubbers. We'll see how it works out!

[habbitrot]

The pink is shetland, the teal is sari silk, and the white is a complete mystery because I blended this a month ago and my brain is full of holes.

[critterfloozy]

Critical Yarns: FRIDA

Three Ply, about 270 yards of Faux Cashmere (Acrylic) from Wild Hare. DK Weight

I used Faux Cashmere a) Because Aeormaton and b) because I'd also used Faux Cashmere for FCG, just another colorway - and I liked the idea that they matched.

The one thing is that I had two colorways I'd wanted to mix, and wanted to do a three ply (because FRIDA triple-classed). So I weighed both colorways into thirds, blended one third of both colors together to get three sections of about the same weight. I wasn't too far off, at least.

The colors actually came together pretty well - I was worries that the 'rose gold' would be too pink, and the green was too light, but I think they work togther pretty well. And also, the pink and green is a visual connection to Deanna, so that seems to work well, also

Two last pictures - one of the singles in the middle of plying, and one of one of my cats, Silvers, who decided that she did, in fact, like the cat tree if I was in the middle of interacting with it

Next up is Prism, and then maybe Opal for real? Or Eursulon.

[milaek]

I'm slapping you and slapping you and slapping you and slapping you

(with wool)

((wet))

(((wet wool)))

(((wool is wet))

*thwap thwap thwap thwap twhap*

[ketchuplaser]

16 - Angel

Myrna wasn't like the other Clarifyers. She had no affinity for water and couldn't muscle a shovel.

What she could do was spin yarn out of fluffback wool, and knit that into clothes for the children.

The hours spent carding the fibers may hurt her arthritis, but it was worth it knowing the younguns would make it well through the winter.

[hysteriamodes]

I should just do more yarn making/spinning content.

Fall (theoretically) is approaching and we are going to have cold weather (hypothetically) as a result.

[tinknevertalks]

It needs a steam, but I finally got to put hand spun yarn on my niddy noddy.

It's World of Wool's Peacock colourway. Got a bunch of it left to spin, but the drop spindle I'm using is only good for a bit at a time. Small batches never hurt me though.

And I think I'll start making a shawl out of all the handspun I've made so far. Not sure which pattern yet (mostly because my first few yarns were very thick and thin, now it's mostly chill with a few sections of Thick and long stretches of thin) but I want to do something with it. :)

Oh, and the stuff I gave Mam? She's knitting up the blue/purple/pink one. If I get a chance I'll take a pic so you can see it worked up. It's pretty. XD

[bumblebeeappletree]

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[snailymailybaby]

Going to start sharing my homesteader type nonsense on this blog.

Anyway, a friend with sheep asked if I wanted any fleece since I've finally begun crocheting for real--- I said yes and now I get to learn how to prepare and drop spindle 4 fleeces into yarn.

The photos are of my first attempt at washing a fleece! I took one of the smaller ewe fleeces so if I fucked up I wouldn't immediately regret everything I've ever done.

I'm going to try and do some natural dye since the garden has quite a few things I can use!

[recordofablerd]

Over the past two weeks, I've been spending my Sundays at Northwest Yarns, a local yarn mercantile in Bellingham, WA. Why? Well, I've been learning the ancient and still very necessary art of hands spinning yarn, and after plying together two ounces of white and brown handspun—which involved wetting it and summarily beating it against a table—I ended up with amor 2/3 of a yarn colorway that I'm calling "Nostalgic Treat" because it looks like so many of those delicious 90s and 00s chocolate-vanilla snacks we love so much. I won't be using this skein but instead will be saving it as a memory of where I started and eventually, how far I've come.

This was such a beautiful learning experience for me and has become something I'll continue to do. My larger goal is to present my own handspun yarn at the county and state level, but that's at least a year off: my goal right now is just to learn and enjoy the process over and over again.

So look forward to seeing more pictures of my spinning: I've already got some beautiful roving on my spindle, ready to go!

[janiemogami]

My adventures with making yarn out of plastic bags continues! Each little ball is one bag.

Ive gotten all the bags in my auntie's house sorted by color, and I've got plenty of red and black to work with, so expect a bunch of that lol

[habbitrot]

I finished plying this skein and I'm really happy with how this one turned out. It's not as overspun as the last one, but the new wheel definitely tends to make me spin a bit thinner. I usually get a dk or worsted weight from a 3-ply, but this is more like sock weight.

[psychic-pigeons]

The gift has been giveth i can post squeaky toy chilchuck now. Behold!