Posts tagged ‘spinning yarn’
fiber sandwich
2 weeks ago we had ROC day here in Groton, SD–for those who don’t know, ROC day is the day that the weavers and spinners began their work again after the winter break. I am pretty sure this dates back to medieval times. Well, all us spinners and knitters got together, had an awesome potluck and all in all had a great time with each other. 12 or so of us particiapted in a fiber sandwich which is where you contribute some raw fiber–batts, web, roving, top of all different types (basically a fiber pot luck) and then you layer the different types of fiber like you would a sub sandwich. The thicker the better I say! Then each who participated got an equal amount which in our case was a 5 oz!
Here is what my portion looked like:
I left mine just the way I got it and spun it by pulling random chunks–I had some pretty wild looking yarn!!!
Some opted to card their sandwich. This is a shot of the sandwich after Marie put it through a drum carder
Here is another carded into web. This is Kelly’s:
So each had a different method to the madness and each proved to make a beautiful yarn in it’s own right. Kelly, Marie and I all attended a second ROC day in North Dakota the following Sat. and spun our sandwiches. Upon the spinning, Kelly came up with the great idea that we take her more consistant sandwich yarn and ply it with my random chunks yarn. Thus creating this yarn:
That shot was before the yarn was blocked and now that it is blocked I am just to lazy to take another pic. You can easily see the colors in the yarn and that is what I really wanted to show. That is a digested fiber sandwich. So to speak.
Here are some pics of the ladies at the North Dakota ROC day–my camera battery was dead for the first ROC day!
We had a blast yet again and had yet again–a fabulous potluck!
Here is my Harvey with a closing comment:
I WON
Well I won the yarn winder! My husband was just about sick and tired of holding his arms out while I wound my yarn into center pull balls! He wanted to get me one for Christmas but money is so tight this year. It’s my lucky day!
1800s Reenactment at Fort Sisseton
Today the women in the fiber arts guild got together for a little dress up and fiber spinning at Fort Sisseton. The fort opened up today and had sleigh rides and crafts for the family and then volunteers dressed up in 1800s attire and reenacted what it would be like in those days. The guild took our spinning wheels and spun yarn ALL DAY LONG. I am pretty tired of spinning to tell you the truth. There were lots of kiddos and they were all so intrigued how the wheels worked and they all had to kno–what are you making with the yarn? It was great. Here are some pics:
Here are the sleigh rides:
Here we are spinning and Marie is making rolags:
And you may remember or have seen in my last post that I was thinking about over dyeing the shawl that I made my sweet mother in law…well I did it. I really like how it came out!
this is how it looked before:
Spinnin’ and Bakin’
I am getting ready to knit the elizabeth zimmerman surprise baby jacket for a friends new baby-http://knitting-gnome.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2009/04/sweater-hello-yarn.jpg and I decided to spin the yarn for the project.
I bought a 1 lb of lambswool roving:
and have managed to spin half a bobbin so far..lol…
This fiber is kinda dirty so I will have to give it a good washing when I get it spun up.
And in the spirit of the holidays I decided to bake some neiman marcus cookies and gift them out since the batch makes over 100 cookies…I have to go buy the ingredients and actually make them now.
Yarn and another bag
I didn’t get much done today–Natural Colored Wool was open here in town and so I spent most of the day hanging out there. I sewed the lining on one more bag:
And then I plied some yarn I had spun up
I should have got a lot more done seeing as how the craft show is going to be set up tomorrow but here I am playing on the internet. I was shooting to make 300 bucks if everything sold but now I’ll be happy if I just sell 150!
