Due to various mistakes, teachable moments, and the occasional ruined chunk, my “thistles” roving (see previous post) turned into a whopping (ha-ha) 45 yards of light worsted weight. (Measured on my new umbrella swift!)
The Finished Thistles
I’m still not sure if I like the color. One minute it looks like it’s rusted, and the next it looks like I tried for Christmas colors and failed miserably. It actually looks prettier in the picture then it does in real life! It’s not my personal preference, but I don’t think it’s awful. Now I just have to figure out what to do with it. Maybe I can use it to try out a pattern or something.
A wonderful big box arrived! My aunt and I got a ball winder and six new colors of dyes! I’m so excited. I can hardly wait to start winding dye balls . . . no. Dyeing wind balls . . . Oh! Balling wound dyes. Aaah!
Six New Dyes
We tried the ball winder out on some store-bought yarn. It worked beautifully. We got it rather inexpensively at
Knitting-Warehouse. I wasn’t expecting them to ship here very quickly, but they got it to me in just a few days.
There’s an umbrella swift (to hold the yarn skeins) and some blank yarn and fiber coming from another store. At least I think it’s coming. I haven’t heard anything back from them about a tracking number. Hmm. I’d better go check on that.
