I Make Things

[ladysprite]

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.




It's just a pair of arm-warmers, but I'm happy with how they came out.


And a closer picture, to show off the yarn...



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

Comments

[cyan-blue.livejournal.com]

So gorgeous!

[janetmiles.livejournal.com]

My thoughts exactly - those are stunning!

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[keshwyn]

Those are LOVELY. They look like the sort of thing a mermaid would wear!

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you - and yeah; the colors are beautiful. I had so much fun spinning it up....

[wcg.livejournal.com]

Lovely.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you....

[arachne8x.livejournal.com]

Gorgeous

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thanks! :)

[evcelt.livejournal.com]

Nice!

Oh, and:

So, as I sit here and slowly regenerate vertebrae

That sounds like the start of a chapter in an urban fantasy novel...

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Hmm.... now that you've pointed that out, it kind of does... :)

[jducoeur]

Or a comic book. I immediately wound up at "I am the best at what I do -- and what I do is fix your pets".

Lovely work, both the yarn and the warmers...

[crash-mccormick.livejournal.com]

Yes it does. Gorgeous too.

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you!

[tafkad.livejournal.com]

Well, if you're this good by now and only going to get better with practice, you're going to be AMAZING pretty soon!

And get well, while you're at it, OK?

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you - I'm still far from perfect, but each skein I spin I get a little better. And I'm doing my best at getting well - one day at a time...

[bess.livejournal.com]

They look awesome!

Did you navajo ply it to keep the color varigation?

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you! Yeah, it's navajo plied; I wanted to be sure to keep the colors separate. Though I have another skein of rainbow-colored fiber that I may try another trick that someone pointed out to me - just splitting the skein in two lengthwise and spinning it that way....

[citabria]

Oooooh -- very very pretty!!!!

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

Thank you! :)

[gmkieran.livejournal.com]

I'd say you managed it beautifully. they're lovely! :D

[ladysprite.livejournal.com]

*hugs* Thank you...

[hermitgeecko.livejournal.com]

Oh, pretty!