Knitwith Homespun

Yep. Dulce de Leche is for sale in my Etsy shop. I had planned on knitting the Dollar and a Half cardigan but economics dictate I at least try to sell it before I get to knitting it. So that’s the plan. It’s 1002 yards baby of 3-ply 10 wpi yarn. If someone buys it before I get to it, that’s fine with me. I am proud of this cause it’s a good amount of yarn and pretty darn consistent. This is one of the reasons I put it in my Etsy shop because it’s pretty good. The only flaw is one knot in one of the skeins but I have found several knots in yarn I have bought so I don’t feel that bad.

Secondly, I spun this specifically to sell in my shop as sock yarn, however, with 264 yards, I don’t think there is enough yardage for full socks. Perhaps you can knit anklets or something but it’s very nice coloring and a good fingering weight. I tried to spin this as quickly as I could and I did it in about 4 hours. Not bad, eh? Here are some more shots.

I will be posting shorting about the finished coverup for my step niece. I finished it in plenty of time and she wore it at the beach but I just haven’t blogged it yet. Have a great weekend all!

With my dad gone, I get busy doing silly things like blogging my lunch.  Today is one of those days.  I love this sandwich so much I can’t get enough of it.  Give it a try and tell me what you think.  Prepare this Herbed Goat Cheese spread and spread it on two pieces of bread. Slice some cucumbers and sweet onions thinly and place on the goat cheese. Add three slices of cooked crispy bacon. Slice and serve baby! Enjoy on a beautiful hot summer day with a glass of lemonade.

My friend Jesh posted a blog about her new wheel and took a video of it spinning so I thought I would do the same.

The fiber I am spinning here is 2 pounds of merino mohair that I bought for a meer $32 on ebay. It is soft as silk and I love it. However, now it is hindering me cause it’s been on my wheel for months. I have decided to hurry it along. Last week I had one full spool of this and I wanted to start my Christmas spinning. Damn! I have to finish this before I start. I have split this up into 6 piles of evenly weighted fiber so I can finish it into a 3-ply for my Dollar and a Half Cardigan (Ravelry link). Now that I have started spinning again, I am so excited to do it. I am not annoyed with this fiber for getting in my way. I am enjoying spinning as I always do and kicking myself for having set it aside for months. I should spin at least once a week but now I am obsessed again. Now I have 4 full bobbins and only 1.5 or so to go before I finish.

Now for the fiber I was itching to spin. Christmas is right around the corner (well it is for knitters and spinners). I ordered this fiber in March for my Christmas project for my mother in law. She has told me in the past about the colors she wants for anything I might knit for her. She asked me for black with jewel tones. I e-mailed Amy at Spunky Eclectic and asked her advice. She recommended this fiber. This is a blend and it’s very soft. She explained, though, that the colors wouldn’t dye up very saturated which is what I had asked for. This is the softest nicest fiber and I can’t wait to spin it. However, the colors don’t really go together as I had hoped. Amy tried to steer me in another direction I think but I ordered this anyway. Here is the plan:

A 2 ply finished yarn. I have 8 ounces of the black (more gray). I have 4 ounces of the red and orange. I have 4 ounces of the blue and green. I will spin it all the same and ply one black strand with each of the others. This should give me a few skeins of black with the green and black with the orange. Then, when knitting, I will knit portions with the one color and then portions with the other. I think it will end up working very well. I haven’t picked a pattern but I think the pattern will also play a huge part in how it ends up working.  I do love how the colors turned out alone. They are all so beautiful and the tones are exactly what I had hoped even though they don’t work together. I was hoping the saturation would be deeper but I am thrilled with this end result anyway.