Blocking my first lace scarf

So, I’m blocking my first lace scarf right now. I knit this from the handspun BFL that I described dyeing in Mathmom Dyes Again. Here is a nice photo of how the yarn finally came out:

So I knit up the Cream of Spinach Scarf (but I call mine the Turquoise and Teal scarf). It was a [...]

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Dye Day #3 – Angora Handspun

So I’m a member of the Spinner’s Study group on Ravelry, and for the month of January, one of the fibers is angora. So I had bought some hand carded angora rolags from a lady down near San Diego, and I spun it myself. Just 22 grams (3/4 of an ounce), and a bit under [...]

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Mathmom Dyes Again

So, I had purchased 3 ounces of undyed BFL roving back in November, just for practice sake. And when I got my new spinning wheel (a Jensen Tina II), I spun it up as a 2-ply. Came out about DK weight. I liked it a lot and eventually hit upon the idea of dyeing it [...]

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Andean Plying

So I’ve seen some diagrams before on Andean plying. You wrap the yarn around your hand in some fashion or other and then ply from that. I never much understood the appeal of this method, and the diagrams looked confusing at a glance. So I mostly ignored it.
Now recently I had spun up 3 ounces [...]

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