I'm not quite happy with the greens in it, but as a dyed fiber without knowing the photo it is lovely.
This is Falkland fiber, dyed by Shelby of Spinning Awesome Good. It was part of her Fiber Club.
I decided to play with it, and made these skeins. They are all either navajo plied (natural undyed merino, gray Gotland, black merino, and one skein of the club fiber), the rest are three plied yarns.
I was going to use them right away, but of course, something else came up.
The undyed merino is wonderfully soft. One full bobbin of singles gave me less yardage than dyed fiber. Gray Gotland fiber looks wonderful but is the scratchiest of them all, and hairy.
I was going to do some mittens with this yarn, but now I'm not sure. It's no rush either.
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I've also got my forth, and last Year of the Lace Club 2010 installment.
I know that I will not knit it. It's different for sure, and the yarn is soft and lovely. I'm thinking of maybe selling my kits from this year, because I will not knit any of them. There are three rectangular stoles, and one triangular shawl.
This was the first kit:
I overdyed the yarn and liked it much better.
This was the second kit:
Not "my" colors either.
The third kit:
Lovely red lace yarn.
If anyone is interested drop me a line. Thanks.
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Have a wonderful weekend!
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12 comments:
Still such lovely knitting and gorgeous pups!!! Hope you are all well.
The Happy yarn looks pretty good. I really like that photo, too! Lace yarns seem to be loosing a bit of their popularity lately but I bet you'll find a buyer for yours!
I like the look of the new Timberline one. What are you looking for for it? or trade? Can you pop Maggie in the package too?
They're lovely but not for me either.
I do love the Happy spun yarn! That's a great picture.
Your spinning is gorgeous!!! Those skeins all work together so well ~ it will really knit into something beautiful :)
I'm kinda over "kits" myself. It's very fun to get a surprise in the mail but in the long run it's best to chose the yarns and patterns I find.
It's so funny that I love the colors that you don't. Your favorites are warm colors and I definitely like cool ones better.
Ooh, both of those colors are definitely my colors. Love the pinks and reds.
Do you want trade or payment? :)
One of the reasons I won't and haven't joined the clubs is I'm afraid I won't like what they send.
I'd have a really hard time with someone else choosing the yarns and patterns for me.
Lovely spun yarn! I like that green. I just started spinning ... and not well at all yet, LOL!
So many beautiful colours and combinations!! Very Happy!!!
Lovely spinning as usual!
The yarn from Shelbys picture dyeing is very pretty! I am looking forward to see what you are going to make with it. Have a nice Sunday!
Yours, Julia
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