{"id":100,"date":"2007-05-09T16:48:39","date_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:48:39","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.abbysyarns.com\/wordpress\/?p=100"},"modified":"2007-05-09T16:48:39","modified_gmt":"2007-05-09T21:48:39","slug":"way-too-tired-for-pictures","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/2007\/05\/09\/way-too-tired-for-pictures\/","title":{"rendered":"Way Too Tired For Pictures…"},"content":{"rendered":"

I’m way too tired for pictures, so I’m going to put up a few photos of some recent yarn. What’s got me so tired? Well, I’ve been in production mode: a few carding days and today was a dye day, all to move stuff from “materials” to “inventory” to make room for new incoming materials, due any day now. I think in the past 3 days I’ve done some 6 pounds of blends and 10 pounds of dyed fibers… geeze, that doesn’t sound like all that much, does it? Ah, but my aching feet… <\/p>\n

So, anyway, some recent productivity:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This was a tester for some hand-dyed superwash. I call this colourway “Mai Tai” — pinks, oranges, some diluted with cream. This one’s a 2-ply sock yarn measuring 360 yards from 62 grams or about 2 ounces, at 16 wpi. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Again, a test skein. “Holly” — Hand-Dyed, handspun superwash wool. 2-ply, 420 yards, 86 grams \/ 3 oz, 15 wpi.<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This one’s by special request, for Divine Bird.<\/a> Your basic sock blend, superwash\/tussah\/mohair, sparkly firestar. I liked it so much I repeated these colours on something for me to spin for kicks. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Fakeberry sock yarn. Same thing — a tester. It’s, you know, sock yarn. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

I might have to try to get other photos of this guy. It’s just got amazing sheen to it that this doesn’t capture. It’s a merino\/tussah\/mohair single, again, a tester from some new blends. Merino\/tussah silk\/kid mohair\/firestar nylon; handspun 22 wpi laceweight single. 780 yards \/96g \/ 3.4 oz . There’s a 440-yard skein too, that has knots in it because I kept skeining it under no tension like a moron, and breaking it. I totally know better. It was going to be this one massive, stunning 1200-yard skein, but nooo, I had to push things and go too fast. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

This is that blend, basically, but in “Peach Fuzz.” <\/p>\n

I finally dyed this Falkland\/Tussah\/Baby Camel sock yarn I spun… uh, probably last year:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Here’s a sampling of a few things I’ve dyed lately…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

And a look at a few of the recent batts…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

…and the latest 15 pounds or so of fibers, like I say… not even photographed yet, I’m TOO TIRED! <\/p>\n

Oh, but I liked this one…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

and strangely enough, I like this too:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Aw geeze, I finished plying round number one on the cabled yarn for Chad’s new hat, too…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

…but I have to do the final ply. I’m torn: it’ll probably all fit on a Majacraft bobbin (definitely on a jumbo one), but then I could make a mindless thing of it with the Roberta. <\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

Trouble is, there’s that ball on the Roberta bobbin. And please don’t ask about the Roberta jumbo stuff. I broke my jumbo flyer with insane speed (and that was dramatic). But anyway, so I know that this…<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

…is no way, no how cabling back onto one bobbin. And I kinda want it to. Even though Chad’s hat isn’t going to use more than maybe 20% of this skein… but that’s not the point. <\/p>\n

Have I mentioned the spring weather? It’s been occasionally dramatic, like this:<\/p>\n

<\/p>\n

(oh, so somber!)<\/p>\n


\n<\/p>\n

Summer might as well be here though, or so it feels. Here’s hoping the days and days on my feet have a positive impact on my waistline before I have to buy new shorts.<\/p>\n

I know, kind of a cop-out blog entry, but maybe some of the yarn and fiber porn does the trick for you. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I’m way too tired for pictures, so I’m going to put up a few photos of some recent yarn. What’s got me so tired? Well, I’ve been in production mode: a few carding days and today was a dye day, all to move stuff from “materials” to “inventory” to make room for new incoming materials, […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"pmpro_default_level":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"footnotes":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","enabled":false}}},"categories":[22,48],"tags":[],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p9Duui-1C","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=100"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/100\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=100"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=100"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/abbysyarns.com\/webshop\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=100"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}