Branching Out - Handspun Edition
Remember this?
OK, so there isn’t much there and it’s mostly a picture of the spindle. However, there is a start of yarn there which is currently becoming this…
My first real handspun lace! After winding it onto the skein winder I decided to measure the length around, count the number of wraps, and figure out the yardage from that. I worked it out to roughly 196 yards, and for some bizarre reason had it in my head that was close to the yardage of Elsbeth Lavold’s Silky Wool yarn used in my Branching Out scarf. What a great idea for the name of a scarf made out of my first handspun lace!
If you look at a larger version of the photo on flickr you’ll notice that the yarn isn’t very soft and has very strong stitch definition. Definitely good twist for sock yarn, but I tend to spin tightly like that anyways. This is one of the reasons I need to ply my yarns (as was done here) but I also just like the look of my handspun all plied up. I’m hoping it will soften with washing, because it will be a-ma-zing. Either way I’m happy with it, and I still love this pattern.
I’ve actually been waiting for several days (almost a week now) to post this, but we’ve had rainy gloomy days since the middle of this week. I don’t like to take my photos unless there’s sun outside my window, as it produces much nicer photos. I think I did OK with this one though.
October 12th, 2007 at 9:24 pm
That’s really impressive!
October 13th, 2007 at 8:38 am
Gorgeous! I got my Golding spindle in the mail yesterday and, wow, am I spoiled now!