Selina’s craft world

Yay, Pumpkin Pie is finished. It’s cloudy here, so the photo did not turn out so great. This photo shows the yarn beautifully - it looks so even in this one:

This photo shows the colour:

Yay. I am done - well, almost. The yarn is currently trying to take a little, relaxing bath and then gets to dry so there should be a good photo of it tomorrow.

The yarn should have about 4 oz and has 289m. I do not seem to be able to get over 300 lately, but the yarn is still alright.

I started working on yet another yarn. This one is 100% Superwash and so soft. I love it. The colour way is called Pumpkin Pie and I loved it at first sight.

I spun about 1.5 oz of the 4 I have.

I did not get to take a photo of the yarn at daylight, but that’s ok. I think the photo turned out decent.

It’s 4oz with around 220m. I love the colours - they’re very pretty. I actually have 4 more oz, but I am not sure if I am not trying to spin the other four thinner.

I just finished plying Thermograph, winding it onto the chair and counting the meterage. I got 220m of yarn, 2 plied. It’s taking a little bath now and will be hanging up soon. Hopefully, I get home tomorrow at a decent time so I can take a good photo.

Out of those two singles …

… I am currently plying this yarn.

I think I am about half way through the plying. The yarn is rather interesting.

I am finally doing something fun again - spinning!!  I looked through my spinning STASH and saw the August Spunky Fiber Club. It’s about 8oz of lovely dyed BFL.

I plan to spin it into a 2-plied yarn - which weight it will have, I have no idea.

Today, I finished my Blue Jeans Yarn. It came out alright with 350m. Judging by the quality of the yarn, I think I can make it into socks, though they might not be the softest. I like the little colour variations and all. It’s very nice.

Here’s the ultimate proof that regular Ashford bobbins CAN hold 4 oz, but do not ask about how hard it was to paddle for the last 50 - 100 m.

This is the finished skein, though the colours do not show well in the photo.

I have been pretty busy the last few days since we’re house sitting, so there’s lots to do. Combined with me not having slept well for the last few days, life is … different I could not stitch due to the lack of sleep, but I did some spinning and finished the singles for my dad’s XMAS gift today. Snoopy decided to be the quality supervisor and checked them out. I think he has not too pleased with the evenness, but he let it pass.

Speaking of that cute, little sunshine … he has no his own blog. He thought it’d be nice if his life was better documented in some way. So please hop over to the Life of Snoopy and leave him some lovely comments I am sure he’ll be thrilled.

.. on my lovely Traveler. Still undecided if it’s going to be 2 or 3 plied. Some parts of it are thin enough to make a lovely three plied yarn and other pats are thick enough for a beautiful two plied yarn. I guess I will have to spin it all and then see what I’d like more.

I started spinning this a few days ago, but only spin a little a day. I had planned to spin it into a three plied sock yarn for my dad for XMAS, but my first singles seems to be too thick and too uneven to make sock yarn. It does not feel like sock yarn either. I might only do a two ply yarn …

I finally finished the fiber I wanted to spin for the Tour de Fleece 2008. Actually, it was done on Friday, but it was still drying. It has a total of 8 oz with a total meterage of 2056.

While talking about the tour de fleece, I actually won a prize which I even got to pick. I decided on 4oz of beautifully hand-dyed in blue and brown shades (beachy) superwash Merino which can be spun into sock yarn.

.. it has its moments. Some funny, some frustrating, some painful, some boring, some happy … but all in all a wonderful experience and inspiration. I did not meet my goal of finishing my 8oz of Merino, but I did 6 oz of it into beautiful and soft lace weight yarn and will finish spinning the last 2oz before I start knitting/spinning something new.

Generally, I am pretty proud of myself. I really spun lace weight and my yarn is getting more consistent.

Here’s the collage I made to honor the Tour:

Meaning that I will not reach my goal of spinning the 8oz I have Ah well. I am still proud of spinning and plying around 1500m of nicely, 2 plied yarn. Yay. So actually … it should be multiplied by 3, as I had to spin two singles and then ply them Anyway, here’s my third skein that sadly still needs some more plying, but it should be done before the tour ends tomorrow.

I also had my graduation yesterday, but still no diploma only a standard thing everyone else got to. I did not know one had to fill out a form in order to get it so I need to wait. Kind of upsetting, though, as I could have gotten it a while ago. No job in sight yet, either. Ah well.

or whatever. I am somewhat messed up about the number of days as I did not take any rest days. Ah well. Either way, I spun around 5 of the 8 oz I had. I have my doubts I get it all done. Ah well.

I spent most of my day running around in school, filling out forms and whatever else. It will all pay off when tomorrow’s celebration is. I cannot wait. My toes still hurt from when I hit them.

I hope someone’s still reading this