All yarn pr0n all the time! The past week or so of yarn. Exciting yarn pr0n! Hot mohair action! Thrilling blends! Commercial alpaca! Click any picture to go to the photo gallery (and you can leave comments and questions on the photos there if you like, too). One ply kid mohair, one ply tussah silk, […]

Originally posted on livejournal in February 2005.

Originally posted on Livejournal, summer 2004

I had packed 500 yards and over 5 oz on the Woolee Winder and… http://ucan.foad.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=oil-slick I just could not get the last little bit on there. So I wound all 3 plies into a pull-from-either-end butterfly type thing (hey, it works!) and then took the *other* end of the 3, and plied it with a […]

A few highlights from my photo gallery for the study I did in 2004 of handspun boucle yarns, found here: http://ucan.foad.org/gallery/view_album.php?set_albumName=boucles The first, a blend of New Zealand Brush Tail Possum (whatever that is, it’s neat stuff though) and coopworth, with rayon binder. I tried to do this all 3 strands at once and it’s […]

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 […]