2011 LYS

In the past two weeks I have completed the South Sound Yarn Crawl and the 2011 Puget Sound Yarn Tour.  The South Sound is a small and can be easily done in one day.  The 2011 LYs stretches from Bainbridge to Birch Bay on the Canadian Border.  It took 3 days to complete.  25 Stores in 3 days, it was work and a lot of fun.

Here is my face upon completing the tour....it is sheer exhaustion

And here is all the loot I got.  The patterns with the exception of one were all free...too bad the fiber and yarn were not....

Knitting with Some Cotton

Went to the South Sound Yarn Crawl this weekend.  Forgot to take some knitting with me for the road...I know right, how could I?

Bought me some Farbo Garn super soft cotton yarn, and a pair of size 5 needles.  Put this together.

A Soap Save and A Washcloth.

What to do with those first spins take two.

I really am bound and determined to knit what I spin.  After all I have A LOT of yarn and am producing more.

So once again here is some of my very very first spin.  Well the stuff I am willing to show you anyway.

And here is a picture of the unblocked hat I knitted out of it in couple of hours.  Will add a pic of it blocked and on a head once dry.

So here is the pictures of the blocked hat.  I don't know how I feel about it.  I did not block it over the dinner plate.  I did not want it to look like a beret.   I wanted a slouchy hat, I am not one for the beret.

Fast Flyers

Because I am obsessive compulsive I just had to have the fast flyer for my Lendrum spinning wheel.  The idea is one can spin lace weight yarn, and fine silk.  Well I do have some Camel silk but no way was going to use it as a test run.  So I pulled out the good reliable cheap Coredale fiber and went to work.  This is what I got.  Not as think as I would like and the ply kind of sucked.

Now I am actually going to try out some silk.  It is coming along okay.  A bit thinner, plying will be interesting.

The pics had very little editing.  This silk actually has a gleam to it and it is so pretty.  Looks like it might actually self stripe.