Show Off Your Handspun Yarns

This weekend I dyed a batch of Leicester Longwool that I'd had a while... the fiber looks marvelous!

This afternoon I tried spinning this long stuff! And I mean it is long... the shortest lengths are at least 6" long... and some are evenlonger. It wants to be spun finely... it will not go thick at all. It was so hard to spin that I tried making a rolag and that was a little bit better, but still difficult... So I just finished carding the whole pile... well it's only 10 oz. and fits into a gallon zip lock baggie...Here is the first part of the spinning I did today... this will be a very slow process.

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Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on May 2, 2012 at 6:52am

I have a knitting bag that a friend got me... one side says "Knit, Susan, knit". and the other side says "See Susan Knit."

Permalink Reply by wendy on May 2, 2012 at 7:23am

How fun!

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on May 2, 2012 at 10:44am

Everyone who sees it love it.

Permalink Reply by wendy on May 1, 2012 at 10:10pm

Wow! I like this.

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on May 1, 2012 at 10:44pm

It is nice, isn't it... she had a time getting the dye to take right...

Permalink Reply by wendy on May 2, 2012 at 6:28am

What did she use to dye it? Food coloring? What kind of problem was she having?

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on May 2, 2012 at 6:50am

She used the Wilton's for dye... and was trying to get a good deep blue... but apparently didn't have enough dye for the amount of fiber, and added the dye to the pot after putting in the fiber, so the dye separated as it entered the pot.

Permalink Reply by wendy on May 2, 2012 at 7:31am

Ok, that's what I thought might have happened. I wonder if she had added just a very slight amount of vinegar (assuming she used vinegar as opposed to citric acid) to the dye bath in the very beginning and then waited to see how the dye was taking up if she would have had it break when she added more dye. I found adding the vinegar in smaller amounts and letting it sit for a bit before adding more gave me a 'more even' results.

It's beautiful though!

Permalink Reply by Susan the Blue Lake Knitter on May 2, 2012 at 10:37am

If I'm not mistaken, she already had the vinegar in the dye pot prior to adding fabric and then dye...

Permalink Reply by cherylbwaters on May 2, 2012 at 9:47am