warming up

Handspun, Crocheted Hat, Ice on the roof

 Southern Cross Fibers Corriedale in Hummus and Figs, 1 oz each, 2-ply, 70 and 80 yards respectively. Already on the loom for a tape weave.

 

 And this is the Kombu, the main color in this bag of fiber which was gifted to me my a dear friend.  This is 4 oz, also 2-ply, but quite a bit heavier. I ended up with about 200 yards with 15 yards of N-ply in the small skein.  I'm going to put this right on the loom, so no bath yet.

 Sophia just crocheted this hat as a gift for a friend. This is freestyle crochet--no pattern. She was aiming for warm, pretty, and with earflaps. She said she spent extra time sewing the two layers together because she knows her friend will be wearing it out in the woods a lot, so she wanted it to be strong.

 Oh, and I came upon this interesting ice formation at the "office" today.  The snow sliding off the roof somehow maintained its shape and froze that way.

Fiber and a handspun hat.

Southern Cross Fibres Corriedale in Kombu, Figs, and Hummus

The youngest is sick today, so this morning we made him a hat for sick-day lounging and napping.  He's definitely the first in this family to be able to wear both a handspun sweater and a handspun hat made just for him!

Walking Home

These are photos I took walking home on Monday evening. Followed by a couple of photos of the thick snow outside the office today.

that tiny light in the center is our kitchen

I'm not good enough to really capture the lovely snow today.

time to go

time to go

BFL silk and Shetland

 Three shots of the Gossamer Web BFL silk gradient, before the bath. It's 2 ply, about 325 yards.

And two shots of the finished yarn:

Continuing my experiment with the shetland.  These skeins were spun in the opposite direction, z-twist, and with a sort of backward draw, but allowing the twist into the drafting triangle.  The yarn isn't washed yet, but already it is much softer than the other batch, especially the lightest brown, which is also more yardage--very soft yarn, but not what I'm looking for, exactly.  The black and white, at exactly the same yardage as the earlier batch (25 yards each) is I think exactly what I'm looking for.  I'm going to knit the two batches up into identical projects at some point, and then I'll know which I want to go with for a larger project.