Finished Forest Canopy

This little project worked up quickly. The roving was from May's selection of the Spunky Club, color Nightshade. I spun it into singles (apx 400 yds fingering weight). The shawl is Forest Canopy by Susan Lawrence and it was a quick and fun shawl which took only a couple of weeks to knit.


You can read more about it on my blog.
Thank you for inspiring me to knit a shawl with my handspun!
Margene

This is my first post on this blog. This is what I'm going to be spinning for my next lace project. I've not decided which one I'm going to use yet, but I'm spinning them both laceweight on these spindles!

Another yarn done

I finished this yarn today. I am going to be using it to make a Pi shawl called Bugs in Your Garden. It is a 60/40 Merino-Bamboo blend. All the specs and more photos are on my blog

-Amy

Done Plying

The alpaca, wool, mohair, and silk is now spun and 2-plied. I ended up with 10 ounces at 1210 yards. More than enough for the Wing of the Moth Shawl. The colors got pretty much muddied up, but there are some patches that have some better color. Just have to knit it up and see how it turns out. It is very soft and a bit fuzzy.

Spider Web Shawl

This is my first post to the KAL. I am Amy from Amy's Babies and I have become smitten with laceweight yarn and shawls knit from them. This is just one of at least 3 handspun shawls I have in mind.

This yarn is BFL spun laceweight in the Tulip colorway from Spunky Eclectic. I got over 1300 yards out of this fiber. You can read more about my experaments in laceweight at my blog.

Here is what the fiber is going to become. It is the Spider Web shawl from Victorian Lace Today. I decided I wanted 4 sections for my shawl. It isn't much yet, but it is knitting up so quickly.

Forest Canopy Shawl Spun and Begun

My first goal was rather ambitious for a fairly new spinner so I have changed my mind and picked an easier, more doable project. I am a member of Amy's Spunky Club and have enjoyed her fiber choices over the last few months. In July the selection was a coopworth wool she called Nightshade. I spun it in a single, my first attempt at singles, and did a fairly god job of it! I predrafted the roving and put only enough twist in to hold it together. The single looked great but needed some 'finishing'. In an effort to see how it would knit up I made a small swatch and was very pleased with the fabric.


The singles sat on the bobbin for a few days and then on the niddy noddy for a few days more in an effort to relax the twist a bit. A friend suggested I steam it while on the niddy noddy so it would relax more quickly and I did just that. You can read a bit about my day of finishing several handspun yarns here. The finished singles were more beautiful than I imagined and I decided the yarn would make a lovely shawl.

The shawl is Susan Lawrence's Forest Canopy. Susan designed it for a beginning lace knitter and while my skills are more intermediate it's a fun and easy shawl to knit. I think it will be beautiful and I'll come back with pictures once I'm finished.


I love the way the colors change in the pattern already!

Margene

Silk Swallowtail

Hello All:

I started my third-ever shawl made out of my own silk laceweight handspun. I finished this yarn over 2 months ago. I kept it in my stash and pet it as much as I could. But I really wanted to make Swallowtail. Here is the beginning of the pattern. This is only the first chart, and the first repeat of the second chart.

You can read more about this project and yarn on my blog.

First Repeat of the Border (Legends of the Shetland Seas)

I'm now working on the border for this stole and this is the first repeat. I have to do this three times then do the other end before I get to do the edging. The row of bead holes seperates the body of the stole from the border. Nice and simple knitting.

This Should Help

Yesterday I bought a new toy. It should help me spin my yarn a little faster. So far I'm in love. The roving that I am using in the photos is for practice, since I am new to wheel spinning. Once I am more confident I'll start on the Merino I am using for my Spun Stitches shawl.

on with the shawl!

I finished my pound of handcarded, 2 ply, light worsted border leister wool. I was a little hesitant about spinning and hand carding so much yarn, but really it went by pretty fast.



I had a private crochet lesson at my LYS to get me going on the Fourth-Generation shawl from the winter Spin Off. I am a novice in crochet, but once I got going (and a few false starts) this is a really easy pattern.

I'm starting to like crochet more and more, and it really has a possibility to help it eat some of my excess stash quickly. Crochet I have learned usually takes up more yards then knitting, which fr us a bit overburdened in the yarn closet can be a relief.