Hello again!!
Its been quite awhile since my last blog, and being rather new to the blogging world I thought you might like to see some of what I did in 2010. I don't have pictures for all of it but I will do my best to tell you about my year. :)
This year was full of firsts for me. I learned alot of things which was awesome because aren't we always learning? This year i learned how to spin on a drop spindle, I also learned how to make a center pull ball on my nostipinne, and i learned how to cable!I love cabling. I was able to go tom my first fiber festival and i loved it! i wish that i could have bought more but I wasn't able to hopefully this year I will be able to buy more things. One of the most exciting things I learned this year and by far my favorite was learning how to dye my own roving! A marvelous friend of mine who is also the friend who taught me how to knit and spin.:) taught me how to hand paint roving this year. We had a wonderful time doing it. She uses the Greener Shade Dyes which are non toxic and non acidic. I was able to paint 8 ounces of merino wool I split it in half so I could experiment with colors. The colors I used on the first I call shades of green, and the second is blues and teals and greens.
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| Aren't the colors lovely? |
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| And here is the other roving I hand painted!! |
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| I gave this one to my mom she loves green. :) |
My mom really loved the roving that I gave her she can't wait to see it spun up. :) That was all I was able to do in the dyeing area but I'm hoping to be able to do more this year. I was able to purchase quite a bit of roving for spinning this last year and I have been busy spinning that up, well some of it. :)
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| This pattern is called Welcome Spring. |
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| It will eventually have flowers under the bird house. And it will also have more birds. |
I have also been working on some cross stitching. I love cross stitch and this project is quite large. It has taken me over a year to complete almost one page of the pattern. But I haven't been working on it consistently. One of the knitting projects that I finished earlier this year was a wrap for my mom. I gave her the yarn as a mothers day present almost 2 years ago. I got the yarn from knit picks it is their Andean Silk yarn in Jade and Cream. It turned out lovely but unfortunately I don't have a picture of it, but hopefully soon I will.
Well that's all for now 2010 wasn't a very busy year in the knitting world for me but maybe 2011 will be. I hope you had a marvelous new year.
