Lampworked bead, sterling silver, strung on my “stormy sunset” handspun yarn. Although you can’t see it here, the ends are finished with wire and jump rings to make this necklace easily adjustable.
The first yarn featured here ended up being 2 skeins (35ish yards and 73ish yards, respectively) of thick and thin 2 ply yarn spun from fabric cut from an old worn pair of suit pants of mine and a bamboo/merino braided roving from moonlightbaker (‘weathered brick’ colorway).
The second was 25ish yards of thick and thin 2 ply yarn spun from a bamboo/merino braided roving from moonlightbaker (‘weathered brick’ colorway), with deliberately overspun little icicles sticking out here and there.
I spun a thick ‘n thin single from a TerraBellaSpun Hot Cocoa batt mixed with denim threads and fluff I pulled out of an old pair of jeans I had lying around, then plied it with some commercial thread.
94ish yards of 7-8ish wpi. Cat ultimately knitted this yarn into a gorgeous scarf for me.
I knitted this hat freeform out of my handspun yarn for my goddaughter last year, when she was six.
The tassle is made from Chinese silk brocade scraps. I didn’t get a photo of the top yarn separately, since I spun it up at the last second when I realized I needed more yardage. The bottom yarn was spun from a mini-batt from my friend Flynt, which she called “Higgletty Piggletty” (hand-dyed merino and polar fleece pink neps), corespun and then plied with blue commercial crochet thread.
These two cowls are made by sewing yarn instead of knitting or crocheting it. I really love the way it preserves all the texture of the yarn, and the way I can hook strands over my ears directly to keep them warm!
The top one is made of my handspun yarn, and the bottom was my prototype with storebought yarn.
Instructions: I wound the yarn into a good cowl circumference, then basically spread out point of it between layers of tissue paper. Pinned it down, sewed a long line perpendicular to the yarn. One more on the other side. Tore off the tissue paper. Done!
Me: “[She says i]t looks like real yarn! Why bother with that? I love my yarn that looks like woobly wobbly woobly shit!”
Dave: “That’s the name of your yarn: Woobly Wobbly Woobly.”
This was corespun from a mini batt which my friend Flynt made, gave to me, and named “I don’t know what happened last night…” (merino, merino silk blend, organic cotton chunks, sari silk threads, angelina), and plied with commercial black boucle yarn with overspun bits sticking out.
Cat asked me to spin a me-and-her yarn for her, and this was my attempt. If you know us, it’s pretty easy to see where I was going with this. Her long, gorgeous, silky black hair mixed with my wild and erratic curls, icy beads to accent thread-plied in, and wrapped with red thread to bind us together as in her latest novel, Palimpsest.
64ish yards of superwash merino, unknown curly locks, commercial thread and tiny beads.
