spun recycled and more spinning!

Posted byleemeredithPosted ingeneral crafts, photos, yarn

i was planning to have a bunch of new knit kits in the shop today, i have the yarns all dyed and pictures taken, but i have been weirdly unmotivated today, blah. part of it is because i’m having issues with my arm hurting, for about two weeks now, and it’s really starting to piss me off. grr. and then i think this motivation problem has to do with having so many plans and projects jumping around in my head and wanting to finish/start all of them and not being able to focus on any one productive thing. or something. so i end up spinning and clicking around blogs and stuff for hours and not updating my site like i should. tomorrow! for reals!

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so what i’ve been playing with lately is spinning different recycled yarns together, or yarn(s) with thread(s). i added this new line of yarns to ravelry, and will be adding at least one as a mitt kit yarn (the red one below) for sale tomorrow, and more later this week. i stocked up on tons of threads at my favorite craft thrift store, so the yarns are spun with all recycled materials, woo!

that top one is a mini-skein spun for myself as an experiment – a bunch of recycled scraps that i threw in the dyepot with other yarns, then spun with chunks of roving holding them together, then plied the whole thing with three different threads to hold it all securely. worked out pretty well, but it took a long time, so i don’t know if that whole method would be worth it for kit yarns.

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have i mentioned how much i love my wheel? spinning is so much fun. here’s a little montage of yarns i’ve made in the last weekish…

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and also, i got new glasses today!!

new glasses! new glasses!

(that hat in the photo is knit from my “happy” handspun i made awhile back, love it!)

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  2. OMG!! Two nights ago, I kid you not, I had a dream that you and I were spinning yarn. With a drop-spindle. It was really fun!

    Sorry to hear about your arm. Is it that carpal-ly kind of joint pain, or is it muscles?

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  3. OMG!! Two nights ago, I kid you not, I had a dream that you and I were spinning yarn. With a drop-spindle. It was really fun!

    Sorry to hear about your arm. Is it that carpal-ly kind of joint pain, or is it muscles?

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