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ladysprite) wrote2013-12-08 06:39 pm
ladysprite) wrote2013-12-08 06:39 pm
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.
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![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
bess's help)....
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)....
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Oh, and:
So, as I sit here and slowly regenerate vertebrae
That sounds like the start of a chapter in an urban fantasy novel...
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And get well, while you're at it, OK?
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Did you navajo ply it to keep the color varigation?
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