Here's my bobbin about 3/4's full from a previous spinning. Now that I have it all set up on my spinning wheel I'm ready to start spinning up these 8 batt's of Ribbon Delight.
I hope to finish filling up this bobbin and start on the second one. Since I'm not feeling tired yet I may even get close to finishing up the second one. Who knows just how much I'll get spun up before my dogs wake up and need me to let them out.
Saturday, July 31, 2010
Insomnia again! (part 1)
Woke up at 2:56 am this morning and just couldn't get back to sleep. So I went into my spinning room and pulled 8 batts of Ribbon Delight out to start spinning up. This picture shows only 7 batts, but that's because I have 1 batt fluffed up and ready to start spinning up.
Friday, July 23, 2010
Knitting project #1 for my mom
My mom and I were chatting on the phone around the 1st of 
July. She had been looking at some of the projects that I had knitted and commented on how much she liked my leg/armwarmers and handwarmers. She asked if I could try and design her a pair of handwarmer that were attached to some arm warmers. I told her I'd try to. I didn't think it could be too hard to make them an all in one item.
After we finished our conversation, I went on-line to Simply Socks Yarn Company to order some yarn for these Arm/Handwarmers. Since my mom can't wear wool, I had to look for some cotton yarn. I finally decided on Cascade Fixation Solid (colorway 5363) and ordered 4 skeins. Since this yarn has some elastic added in, I thought it would be perfect for these arm/handwarmers.
The yarn arrived on July 10th and on July 11th I crocheted a chain of 54 stitches and picked up 52 stitches and knitted them on to size 2 dpn's and evenly spread them around on 3 needles. Then I worked the handwarmer like I've done on 4 other pairs I've knitted. When the handwarmer was finished and all the threads woven in, I slowly removed the crochet cast on and picked up 52 stitches and placed them 3 dpn's I then knitted the first row to get the arm warmer started.
The pattern I used was:
Row 1: knit
Row 2: p2, k4, p2, k4, p1 (first needle), p1, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k1 (second needle), k3, p2, k4, p2, k2 (third needle).
Row 3: knit
Row 4: k3, p2, k4, p2, k2 (first needle), k2, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4 (second needle), p2, k4, p2, k4, p1 (third needle).
I then worked these 4 rows until I had 28 rows finished. Then I began increasing 1 stitch at the beginning and end of the first row. I had to adjust rows 2 and 4 after each increase. I kept increasing until I had 108 stitches. Then I just followed my pattern for 16 more rows with no increases. Then I decreased every other row until I had 100 stitches, and started knitting my k2, p2, ribbing for 22 more rows. Then I bound off loosely and wove in all my remaining threads. That was just for the first arm/handwarmer, now I have to repeat this for the other arm.
Right now I have the second arm/handwarmer started with the thumb increases on a holder. I should soon have the handwarmer finished and ready to start on the arm by tomorrow.
Hope my mom likes these. She's already asked me to knit her up another pair of socks and I have the yarn ready to start knitting with once I'm finished with these arm/handwarmers.
July. She had been looking at some of the projects that I had knitted and commented on how much she liked my leg/armwarmers and handwarmers. She asked if I could try and design her a pair of handwarmer that were attached to some arm warmers. I told her I'd try to. I didn't think it could be too hard to make them an all in one item.After we finished our conversation, I went on-line to Simply Socks Yarn Company to order some yarn for these Arm/Handwarmers. Since my mom can't wear wool, I had to look for some cotton yarn. I finally decided on Cascade Fixation Solid (colorway 5363) and ordered 4 skeins. Since this yarn has some elastic added in, I thought it would be perfect for these arm/handwarmers.
The yarn arrived on July 10th and on July 11th I crocheted a chain of 54 stitches and picked up 52 stitches and knitted them on to size 2 dpn's and evenly spread them around on 3 needles. Then I worked the handwarmer like I've done on 4 other pairs I've knitted. When the handwarmer was finished and all the threads woven in, I slowly removed the crochet cast on and picked up 52 stitches and placed them 3 dpn's I then knitted the first row to get the arm warmer started.
The pattern I used was:
Row 1: knit
Row 2: p2, k4, p2, k4, p1 (first needle), p1, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k1 (second needle), k3, p2, k4, p2, k2 (third needle).
Row 3: knit
Row 4: k3, p2, k4, p2, k2 (first needle), k2, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4, p2, k4 (second needle), p2, k4, p2, k4, p1 (third needle).
I then worked these 4 rows until I had 28 rows finished. Then I began increasing 1 stitch at the beginning and end of the first row. I had to adjust rows 2 and 4 after each increase. I kept increasing until I had 108 stitches. Then I just followed my pattern for 16 more rows with no increases. Then I decreased every other row until I had 100 stitches, and started knitting my k2, p2, ribbing for 22 more rows. Then I bound off loosely and wove in all my remaining threads. That was just for the first arm/handwarmer, now I have to repeat this for the other arm.
Right now I have the second arm/handwarmer started with the thumb increases on a holder. I should soon have the handwarmer finished and ready to start on the arm by tomorrow.
Hope my mom likes these. She's already asked me to knit her up another pair of socks and I have the yarn ready to start knitting with once I'm finished with these arm/handwarmers.
Insomnia and Spinning
On July 11th I woke up around 3:34 am and couldn't get back to sleep. So I headed off to my spinning room to start spinning up some yarn.I took this picture of the 7 batts of Springtime Medley that I had finished carding the day before. Then I put a half filled bobbin of Springtime Medley on my Spinning wheel and took that picture.....as you can see from the next picture, I forgot to put the drive band back on before taking the picture (half asleep). These 7 batts weight 6 1/2 oz before I spun them up.
This next picture shows the 8th batt laying on the floor ready for me to start spinning. After taking these first three pictures I started in spinning. I stopped spinning around 8:04 am to go and take a shower and get ready for a long day.
Then over the next few days I continued spinning off and on and finally on July 21st I finished plying up the last 2 skeins of Springtime Medley and then washed them and hung them to dry. Then when they were dry I listed them on my website http://www.spinningginny.com/ and on my etsy site at http://www.etsy.com/shop/Spinningginnys. I ended up with 910 yards of 2 ply lace weight yarn and 4 7/8 ounces or 138 grams. This was just from these batts and what was on my bobbin from a previous batch, that I had spun up a few months back.
Garden Delight fiber ready to spin
Here I've fluffed up one of the 8 carded batts of Garden Delight to get ready to start spinning. Now I'm ready to start my wheel and attach the fiber to the ended of my already spun single. 1...2...3...ready spin.
Garden Delight Single
This bobbin has some left over Garden Delight Single spun yarn on it from a previous spinning. I'll finish filling it up and then remove it and put an empty bobbin in its place. Once I get the second bobbin filled up I'll then remove that bobbin and replace it with another empty bobbin to start the plying process.
Garden Delight Carded Batts
Today I pulled these 8 carded batts of Garden Delight out to start my new spinning project. I don't know how many skeins I'll be able to spin up from them. However, I'm hoping to have enough to list on my website and also on Etsy.
Saturday, July 10, 2010
July Spinning project # 1
On July 1st I carded up a batt of several colors of Merino fiber to make a batt of my Oasis
Merino. I then started spinning it up on my Ashford Kiwi Student Spinning Wheel. After I finished spinning up the first batt, I carded up a second on and started spinning it up. then I got to thinking.......why not card up a bunch of batts, so I carded up 8 more batts and then I took this picture of the 8 batts.
I orginally started out with 7 1/4 oz of carded Oasis Batts.
Here is what I've spun up so far with 1 1/2 batts of my Oasis carded batts.
This is the rest of the second Batt waiting to be spun.
Merino. I then started spinning it up on my Ashford Kiwi Student Spinning Wheel. After I finished spinning up the first batt, I carded up a second on and started spinning it up. then I got to thinking.......why not card up a bunch of batts, so I carded up 8 more batts and then I took this picture of the 8 batts.I orginally started out with 7 1/4 oz of carded Oasis Batts.
Here is what I've spun up so far with 1 1/2 batts of my Oasis carded batts.
This is the rest of the second Batt waiting to be spun.
Here's 5 skeins of my Handspun Oasis Merino yarn. These 5 skeins totaled in yardage at 1, 135 yards and 198 grams of 2 ply Handspun Lace Yarn.
You can find these skeins listed on my website at http://www.spinningginny.com/ or on http://www.etsy.com/shop/Spinningginnys
Thanks for looking!
Ginny
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