First you take this: (coopworth/alpaca blend from Jehovah Jireh Farm) and then you make it into this handspun single-ply yarn: Which then in turn gets plied with this iridescent commercial flossy stuff for a binder: And then it looks like this: Then, ply it one more time with the binder, in the opposite direction from […]

From yarn that I spun from fibers that I dyed and blended… mohair/soy silk for the pinkish, mohair/tussah silk for the white, and tussah silk dyed with easter egg dye for the “mouldy green” part. All are single-ply yarns, and I did the blending with a drum carder. Raw materials… er at least, partly done […]

I’m calling it done. It’s big enough: Huzzah, the girly blanket! No less than 57 pictures at varying stages of start to finish. Categorically the trickiest thing I’ve made to date. I must have worked on it for 2 months? It has flowers, netting, pseudo-ground, leaves, and pineapples. Man, this thing worked me hard. But […]