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Juicy Rovings and Giveaway Sweater

Posted on February 5, 2011 by | Comments Off on Juicy Rovings and Giveaway Sweater
2/11/11 EDITED TO ADD: It's finished!
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First - I finished the body of the sweater I am donating to Juniper Moon Farms massively huge most amazing giveaway ever in support of Pete's Greens:

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I am really liking this sweater - basically I used the pattern "Faux Fair Isle Raglans" from Shannon Okey's book Spin to Knit: the Knitter's Guide to Yarn Making, but I added underarm gussets, and I think I added short-rows on the back of the neck so it would not ride up.... I'll have to double-check that bit!

Rovings! Dyed rovings!

Also - I dyed up four 4 oz chunks of roving, again the beautiful Cormo from Juniper Moon Farm- the first brownish grey was sort of a voo-do dyejob. I piled up the soaked fiber and randomly poured mixed red, blue and yellow dyes.
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This next I am not so excited about, though the blues are nice, but it may spin up nicely:
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This one I love! I painted two of the rovings the same and they are most juicy!
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New Rovings!

Posted on February 4, 2011 by | Comments Off on New Rovings!

Dyed some lovely Cormo roving from Juniper Moon Farm the other day – the moody brownish one was a total surprise.  I just lumped up the soaked roving and randomly  poured on a red, blue and yellow, let it set, steamed it and voila!  The other three rovings are painted.  Can’t wait to spin them, especially the bright one -

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This is the “voo-do” dye job – came out a really nice moody grey/brown but how will it spin?

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Kind of a boring roving, but may spin really nicely…..?

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I have 2 of these!  juicy!

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Dying: inspiration? the neon slinky!

Posted on May 5, 2010 by | Comments Off on Dying: inspiration? the neon slinky!

My son has been absent-mindedly “slinking” this brightly colored plastic slinky back and forth between his hands for the last couple of weeks.  I decided I really liked the colors of the slinky and needed to dye something, anything!

"Neon Slinky" sock yarn "Neon Slinky" Roving "Old Rose" Roving Dry Rovings Yarn and Roving Drying

So what is up with the yarn you ask?  I am planning on attending two local farmer’s markets this summer and fall, the Glenside Farmer’s Market which runs on Saturdays, and the CreekSide Coop Farmer’s Market at High School Park (now that is a mouthful!) which runs on Sundays.  Here is the schedule as planned:

CreekSide at High School Park – May 23, June 20, (skip July and August – too hot!) September 19 and October 31 (Boo!)

Glenside – May 29, June 26, September 25, October 30 and November 20

I found a source for nice organic Incan cotton.  It came the other day and I am excited to dye some up.  I will post pics so you can see what will be at the markets!

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