Monday, September 21, 2009

Look what I did!

I spun something that mostly resembled yarn:




A whole 228 yards of it:



It was really pretty (to me at least):


So I made a hat:


And I like it a lot:


The Details:
Fiber: Hello Yarn Fiber Club, May 2009, Falkland
Color: Five Plume Pie
Weight: 4 oz
Spinning style: ummm I just split it down the middle and spun
Finished Yarn: 2-ply, 228 yards (about a worsted)

Hat Pattern: Stella
Modifications: two repeats before decreasing, three was a bit "rasta"

Thoughts: LOVE (10000) The wool was great and pretty easy to spin, my spinning got much better during the process. The colors were fun and it was neat to see it all come together. There was something very gratifying about the whole process start to finish. I was pleasantly surprised that the yarn/pattern combo worked out so well, it almost seems like I planned the color changes, which I absolutely did not. Hub kept asking how does the yarn "know" when to change colors like that. I guess the stars just aligned on that one. :)


3 comments:

  1. Oooooohh... Pretty.... :)

    I like!

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  2. How beautiful! What a satisfying feeling it must be to make something like that totally from scratch!

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  3. Hello from Thunder Bay, Ontario Canada
    Very lovely! Congratulations on a job well done.
    Your hat is absolutely magnificant.

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