Wednesday 19 November 2008

Autumn Spinning

This week I have been spinning up some Wildcraft BFL/nylon sock batts in a colourway called 'Calendulas'...


On a calendula petals spindle...

Into a tweedy calendula coloured sock yarn...


I've only plied and finished about 25g of the fibre so far, so I still have three quarters of it left to spin. But it's a lovely relaxing project to work on, and I'm loving the finished yarn. A big thank you to Chriss, who prompted me into making these batts and ordered a custom-blended set of them, the yarn she's spun from them is amazing, mine is nowhere near as smooth and even. But it should make good socks, probably quite cosy too. I like these batts a lot, and they're fun to make so there will definitely be more around in the shop soon.

2 comments:

~ Phyllis ~ said...

Those are nice looking sock batts.
More temptation.

Kathleen said...

Love the spindle! I wanna see the socks when they're finished! The yarn looks yummy!