I Make Things

So, as I sit here and slowly regenerate vertebrae, I've at least had the time to work on some of my crafts. Right now I'm enthusiastically applying myself to a cross-stitch project that has been sitting neglected for the past several months, but before I started working on that I finished up a project that was a first for me - I crocheted something out of yarn I spun myself.

It wasn't a huge project, mostly because I only had a limited amount of fiber, but it's still a first. A year ago, when I started spinning, I found it hard to believe I'd ever get good enough at it to make yarn that I could actually work with. Last time I wrote here about my spinning I had made progress, but I was still far from actually skilled. And now... I'm still not perfect, but I made workable yarn. And then I made something with it.

The fiber itself was gorgeous - it was a gift from friends, and I had been putting off spinning it until I had at least enough skill to do it justice. It was a variegated wool/silk/sparkle blend, and I wanted to know that I could keep the colors as bright and clear as they were in the unspun fiber. And... I think I managed it.

( Pictures, hidden for those who are less than interested in fiber arts... )

Next step is to make something out of the yarn I spun and dyed myself (okay, with bess's help)....