Knitting through Nancy Bush’s Folk Socks: WIPs and UFOs
You might remember that back in January and February, I did a sort of wool trade. Part of the fruits of that exercise were these two gorgeous braids of superwash BFL. I separated the two braids into the blue-shifted parts and the purple-shifted parts, attempting to make two analogous colorways. You can read about spinning … More Socks on the Road: Blue Geode 3-Ply
For this trip, I abandoned all other projects, and just brought along handspun sock knitting. These are all the yarns I brought, all but one spun since January. I had no expectations of finishing all nine pairs while we were gone, believe me! But I wanted to have my options open. Stringbean has run out … More Socks on the Road: Bubblegum 2-Ply
Here I am, just a couple of nights before (Lord willing) leaving on vacation. Bags are packed, boxes are ticked, final lists made. On the list is to share with you this last spin before we leave. The Breed and Color Study, this time around, included both carded and combed-top prep. To my surprise, I … More SCS+BCS: Carded Blended Gradients
Like it always is, April was a blur. Made more so because of course I have to make cakes for everyone. It all started with MiniMighty’s Minion cake (made in March, but served in April)March 2022 Round-Up:Â Recovery: I made my first cupcake cake for our church’s Easter feast: Which was followed a few days later … More April 2022 Round-Up: Birthday Insanity
I hope you like these colors, guys! Because you’re going to see them a few times in the weeks that follow. This is the Wool n’ Spinning Breed and Color Study fiber, dyed and carded by Katrina at CraftyJaks. This is kind of a big deal, because (a) she did both a carded and a … More Breed & Color Study: Radnor Sampling
Since I started spinning sock yarns, way back two years ago when I had my first really successful, really fast sock spin, I started saving pieces of each braid. I would unbraid, strip off about 1 oz, and set it aside with a label. I did this because 4 oz of fiber made frankly too … More SCS: Combo Spin 1
So, in January, a few things happened. A) I ordered the Breed and Color study fiber from Katrina. It was a pre-order, and the fiber wouldn’t arrive for a while. This meant that B) I was kinda out of fun money. C) I wanted to spin for socks in analogous colors, and I wanted some … More SCS: Analogous: Geodes
I get to share about sock spins today! This spin started as a bundle of undyed mystery wool, which I dyed in two different analogous-esque colourways. I spun the black-bean dyed very light-colored wool first, but I’ll come back to that later. For the bubblegum-colored food-coloring-dyed yarn, I wanted to try something different structurally. So … More SCS: Analogous: Bubblegum
I couldn’t stand waiting for my analogous braids to arrive, so I took matters into my own hands. I did what I haven’t done in some years: I dyed some fiber. I had a random top from a local friend who is rather giving up spinning. This will make you cringe, but I had actually … More SCS: Analogous-Adjacent Dyeing
Happy February! I am pleased to present the first installment of what I hope to be many sock yarns spun this year. As I have described extensively, the first chapter of studying color in sock spinning is all about analogous colourways. But these first few socks spins are going to be not-quite analogous. You might … More SCS-Analogous: Phoenix Rising 3-Ply
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