Showing posts with label Hand Spun. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Hand Spun. Show all posts

Thursday, November 9, 2017

Mini-skeins from Memory Lane

The variety of hand dyed mini skeins mailed to Kickstarter Backers

The Dyepot Weekly Kickstarter Campaign smashed my expecations, and smashed all of the stretch goals I came up with out of the park.  One of these stretch goals was that every backer who selected a shipped reward would receive a mini skein of hand dyed yarn.  Depending on the selected reward, the bonus mini-skein would be handspun or dyed on a commercial yarn.  

I did not label the individual mini skeins of yarn.  Instead, I thought it would be fun to write up a summary of all of these yarns, and to see if I could figure out exactly what video or blog post they came from. Are you ready for this trip down memory lane?

Hand Dyed and Handspun Mini-skeins


With one exception, all of the hand dyed and handspun miniskeins were spun recently.  So recently that I haven't even been able to write up a blog post about them!  However, all of the fiber dyeing takes place in different videos. Some of the spinning took place in livestreams, too!  Let's take a closer look at these 5 yard + miniskeins of handpusn yarn starting from the left:
  1. I dyed the fiber for the first two skeins on the left in a livestream this past September.  I handpainted 200 g of 100% wool roving with Kool-Aid.  This was the first time I did a dyeing livestream, and it was so much fun to interact with everyone while I was dyeing the fiber.  I also got a great tip, put the fiber though a salad spinner to help it dry.  This tip was LIFE CHANGING.  I think I might buy a salad spinner to use with non-food safe dyes.  In the first yarn, I N-plyed (chain plyed) the yarn in another livestream.  I don't think I wrote down the WPI (wraps per inch) for this yarn, but I got a minimum of 57 yards out of this yarn.
  2. The fiber in the second mini skein of handspun yarn was dyed in the same video as the previous one.  I spun Z singles, wound the singles into a center pull ball and then made an S 2-ply yarn with both ends of the yarn cake.  I didn't film any of the plying for this yarn. 
  3. The fiber from the middle two skeins is some unknown 100% wool fiber that I dyed in the original breaking black food coloring video.  I've come a long way since some of these early dyeing videos!  I spun the fiber recently with mini-skeins in mind.  I spun uneven Z singles, wound them into a center pull ball, and then plyed both ends in the S direction.  Skein #3 came from breaking Wilton's Black (the old formulation). 
  4. This fiber was dyed and spun in the same ways as #3.  The only difference is that I broke McCormick's black food coloring to dye this fiber.  The breaking is super subtle in this fiber, but you can see the blues peak out in some places. 
  5. This yarn is a very special yarn to me.  I space dyed this roving with food coloring I had mixed in a previous video.  With this roving, I attempted to spin my first chunky yarn.  The yarn was bulky, but not as chunky as I had hoped.  What is super special about this yarn?  I used this yarn to knit a baby cuccoon to use in my son's newborn photoshoot.  I spun a chunkier yarn that I was going to use for the body of the pod, and I knew that I didn't quite have enough yardage. I used this to cast on the top edge and then used it to finish the bottom when I ran out of the other yarn. 
  6. The sunset colored yarn on the far right was the first yarn I spun when I was planning the hand dyed and handspun miniskeins reward.  To get these bright colors, I space dyed braided roving with Easter egg dyeing tablets. Like many of the ther yarns, I didn't think too much about plying until I was already spinning the singles.  I wound the singles into a center pull ball and plied the yarn in the S direction. I ended up with about 67 yards of this yarn.  
I recently discovered that when I make a 4 foot skein on my niddy noddy that it is actually a bit longer than 4 ft.  Therefore, all of my yardage estimates, which I calculate by counting the wraps and multiplying by 4/3, understimate the yardage I got while spinning.

Hand Dyed Mini Skeins

These hand dyed miniskeins came from all over.  Some came from dyed blanks, some are remnants from projects I was knitting, and others are full miniskeins that were featured in a dyeing video.  Some of these yarns came from 100 g skeins of yarn that I had in my stash.  I will tell you more about all of the yarns below.  


This first set of yarns comes from some of my early adventures with Tulip Tie Dye Kits (Amazon Affiliate Link).  Originally, I was gifted a kit from AllFreeKnitting and Tulip to dye some yarn.  I enjoyed this brand of tie dye kit so much that I now choose it and purchase it with my own money for dyeing videos.  All 3 of these yarns were dyed with the orignal kit I received.  Three yarns, you might ask, there are 11 yarns in this image.  Let me tell you a little more about them:
  • Left: In 2012, I created the video "How to Dye Cotton Yarn with a Tulip Tie Dye kit".  Two 50 g balls of sport weight cotton yarn in this video.  I used Simply Cotton organic sport weight (KnitPicks Affiliate Link) These four yarns are some of the ones that came out of the complete ball of yarn that I dyed.  Notice how the colors change based on whether they were on the outside of the ball (far left) or the inside (the greener yarns on the right.)  The video also features some of my favorite tie dyed t-shirts that I made in college. 
  • Bottom Right: I showed three mini skeins here to show how much more consistant this colorways is, especially compared to the two other dyeing projects in this picture.  I wound the 50 g ball of the sport weight cotton yarn into a skein and then handpainted that with all of the colors in the kit.  The colors came out super vibrant and then yarn is a lot of fun.  You can see the dyeing in the same video linked above. 
  • Top Right: In this video, I wraped up a pre-knit blank (that I hand knit, by the way) and then tie dyed this hand knit fabric into a spiral.  The yarn base is 100% wool, Bare wool of the Andes worsted weight yarn (KnitPicks affiliate link).  I now have a hand crank knitting machine that I use to make my own blanks.  It takes much to long to knit them by hand!  These 4 miniskeins look super different from one another, but they all came out of one dyeing project.  

Here are a bunch of 100% wool yarns in differnet weights and dyed with very differnt techniques.  Starting on the far left:
  1. This is a VERY special yarn, an I knew that I wanted to send out some miniskeins of this yarn to Kickstarter backers.  This is the first 100% wool yarn I ever dyed.  Ever.  I only had this blog, I didn't even have a YouTube channel yet!  I used a mixture of Kool-Aid and liquid food coloring to dye 100 g of bare KnitPicks palette yarn (Affiliate Link) in the microwave.  I've used this yarn to make multiple different projects, some of which are featured in the FAQ video of finished knit projects made with hand dyed yarns.  I used this yarn to make a hat, a pair of mittens, and then later in the video, a hexapuff.  I wanted to dye this yarn because I loved the look of mixing variegated yarns with black, it sort of looks a little like stained glass.  This hat is one of my favorites and I wear it frequently. 
  2. Some of these yarns come from super old videos, like 4 addresses ago!  This is the first time I ever explored breaking purple food coloring.  I had successfully dyed some solid purple yarns previously and now I wanted to see what all of this breaking talk was about.  The yarn base is KnitPicks bare palette yarn. 
  3. This yarn was dyed using some food coloring I bought at the Christmas Tree Store (random brand) and then dipping portions of the skein into dye in the microwave.  I would add 2/3 of the yarn at a time into a different bath of water.  I haven't done this technique in a long time, and I'm not entirely sure why. I think that I need to do some dip dyeing in multiple colors soon!
  4. This purple yarn is STUNNING.  The colors are spotty and mabled.  How did I do this?  I dyed the yarn using some rice that had soaked up some food coloring.  The technique (and video) are a lot of fun, but unfortunately it was a HUGE pain to remove rice from these yarns and to wash out all of the starch.  I can't image doing this on 100 g of yarn!  The yarn base is a mini skein of bare wool of the Andes worsted weight yarn (KnitPicks affiliate link).
  5. This yarn is a sublte, semi-solid purple.  I loved it so much that I wanted to share how these subtle tonal changes can be super stunning with all of you.  The yarn base is KnitPicks bare palette yarn.  I used a Tulip Tie Dye kit and added the color to dry yarn.  The tie dyeing instructions recommend using presoaked yarn, but suggested that it wasn't a requirement.  I was curious how the colors would bind to the yarn if I just randomly squirted it on.  I think that I eventually needed to add some more water because the dye sort of beaded up on the surface, but this was a really fun experiment. 
  6. & 7. The last to yarns on the right were dyed as miniskeins with a very specific project.  I needed to color match some yarns I used in Lucky's first birthday outfit AND I wanted to try dyeing yarn in mason jars on the stove top, sort of like a double boiler.  I should have put a towel under the jars!  Whoops.  These colors ended up not being close enough to what I needed, but they are so pretty!  The yarn base is 100% wool worsted weight wool of the Andes yarn.  You will even see some pictures of Rowdy in his birthday outfit with some of the dinosaurs I crocheted out of the yarns I kept from this video.  



The last two yarns were dyed recently, and only one was dyed by me.  The left yarn was dyed using some old (like, months-years old) tulip tie dye that had been sitting in squeeze bottles for a very long time.  This video will come out on November 24, 2017.  The final yarn (on the right) was dyed by Lucky!  Lucky dyed this yarn while I worked on a rainbow colorway.  Lucky wants to keep all of his yarns, and I turned almost all of this yarn into a brand new hat for him.  There were 10-12 g of yarn left over after I finished the pompom, so I knew that I needed to share these with two backers.  Both of these yarns are 100% worsted weight wool.

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Preparing shippments for the Dyepot Weekly Kickstarter backers is like a huge trip down memory lane.  Most of the full skeins of yarn I've dyed over the last few years are packaged up and ready to start getting shipped to backers. (The linked Facebook album is now like an archive of dyed yarns.  Each image has links to the dyeing video in the comments.)  

I hope that you love your bonus mini-skeins!  I will need to wind a few more for some of the next shipment rounds.  Actually, I have a lot more dyeing to do before the next shipping round.  Wahoo!  

Thursday, September 7, 2017

Summary of my first Live Spin-Along!

At the beginning of August, I held a Live Spin-Along on the ChemKnits Tutorials YouTube Channel where I spun an entire 2-ply yarn on camera over the course of 6 episodes.  When I testing out going live I asked you what you wanted to see, and someone asked me to do some spinning live.  In this first spin-along, I spun roving from two different ChemKnits videos, Breaking Wilton's Violet Food Coloring for Speckled Roving and Dip Dyeing Braided Roving with Wilton's Violet Food Coloring.

I have a playlist for the whole spin along, but you can also watch the whole series embedded here in this post.

In the first video, I introduced the spinning project and talked a bit about the tools that I use for spinning.  My spinning wheel is a Kromski Fantasia and I LOVE it.  I consider myself a novice spinner but I found it really easy to learn with "Sandry" as my instrument.


In the second episode, I let the viewers pick which roving I would start spinning.  The dip dyed braid was the overwhelming winner. I spun almost all of this fiber in this episode.  Unfortunately comments during the YouTube Livestream don't show up in the final video. I try to keep track of questions I get during the video and post relevant links as soon as the replay is done processing.


In the third episode, I finish spinning the first set of singles and start spinning the speckled roving. Both rovings have similar colors (although one is a base of Full Circle Roving in Pigeon and the other is Bare Wool of the Andes Roving) since they were both dyed with Wilton's Violet food coloring.  However, the singles are quite different because the dip dyed roving gave us longer color repeats than the speckle dyed roving.  


In the 4th part of this series I completed the 2-ply yarn.  Plying yarn is so much faster and requires so much less attention than drafting.  I find that it is a lot harder to make mistakes.  Of course, when I started doing some N-plying I discovered that I couldn't really talk, focus on keeping my hands in camera and ply at the same time.  I'll try to do another N-ply demonstration sometime in the future.  



Finally, in the conclusion of this series I share the finished yarn and talk about some of the stats from this project.  I spun two Z singles and combined them in an S 2-ply yarn.  I created a few yards of an N-plyed yarn with the leftover singles.



The finished yarn: 
Big Skein - 90 wraps = 360 feet = 120 yards
Small Skein - 20 wraps = 80 feet = 26.7 yards

With over 140 yards of yarn I have more than enough to make a hat!  The 2-ply yarn is ~10 wpi, or worsted weight

The small skein of N-ply yarn - 5.5 wraps (~2 ft/wrap) = 11 ft = 3.7 yards.  This means that I had 11 more yards of the dip dyed yarn than the speckled yarn.  This isn't so bad if you consider how many yards I spun to begin with.

Along with these series, I made a bonus Time Lapse video.  Thank you, Jake for making this request!




 What would you like to watch me do live?  I leave most of my videos pretty long and unedited so you guys can see more of the dyeing process, but there are certainly some moments that I leave out.  Make sure that you subscribe to the ChemKnits Tutorials YouTube Channel so you can get notifications for when I go live.


This post contains some Amazon Affiliate links. None of the product selections or opinions were solicited.  

Tuesday, December 13, 2016

Behind the Design of the Cloudy Rainbow Hat


My cloudy rainbow hat design is a really simple pattern.  You knit a tube and then graft the top together with the kitchener stitch. I even provided some tips on how to resize this hat to fit any sized head.  It took me some trial and error to get the right shape for Rowdy's head, and I sort of made up the design as I went along.  Today I'm going to share some of these notes as I was designing this hat PLUS take the opportunity to share more adorable pictures of Rowdy.


Why was there trial and error?  I knew that I only had 22 yards of my handspun chunky yarn and that that was probably not enough yardage to make a hat for a 9 month old baby.  I knew that I needed to push the design as far as I could to get something that would fit him.


I really like the "cloud" that ended up on top of the hat, even if that was not part of my original vision when I started spinning.


I started by casting on 33 stitches, but I quickly realized that this was going to be pretty big on Rowdy's 8.5 month old head.  Since I was only a few inches into the hat and already on the green yarn, there was NO way that I could create an entire baby hat.


I started over with 27 stitches.  This fit with negative ease (and likely wouldn't last very long), but I got almost to the top of his crown by the time I ran out of yarn in my chunky gradient.  


You may note that the pattern itself starts with 28 stitches.  I did this because I really wish I had used 28 stitches and it is easier to write insturctions for grafting an even number of stitches than an odd number of stitches.


So what was I going to do about my yarn shortage?  I had some thinner (worsted weight) yarn with the same colors that I had intended to use all along for the pompoms.  What would happen if I held this double with some white Tuff Puff to finish up the top of my hat?


And this is how I got the cloud on top of my rainbow.


Before I started knitting, I considered doing vertical stripes with a K1B technique but I REALLY REALLY wanted to show off this true gradient without breaking it up.


There was only 11.5 g left of the worsted weight before starting the pompoms.  I really wanted to make sure there is enough for 2, so I wound the yarn with care and kept my fingers crossed.


Each one a red-red colorway when winding.  Woot!


It would have been nice to have denser pompoms, but I knew that these were going to be super cute.  


I mean, look how cute they are before they even made it on to the hat!  


So there you have it!  With a little trial and error (well, a few errors), I ended up with a hat that I designed from dyeing the fiber, spinning the yarn and the knitting the hat.  


I know that I've done a good job when people I pass on the street start grinning at me.  


How can you not grin when you see this little hat?  I suppose the baby is pretty cute, too.  ðŸ˜‰

Wednesday, November 2, 2016

Cloudy Rainbow Hat Pattern


I wanted to make a chunky handspun hat for my baby for a long time.  I considered making one for when Rowdy was a newborn, but knew he would outgrow it fast so hoped to have one that would last more than a week or two.  I am thrilled to present you with the Chunky "Cloudy Rainbow" hat!  This is a simple design that would work well with many different chunky but lends itself especially well to hand dyed yarns.


Materials

  • 34 yards Super Bulky Yarn (The sample used 22 yards 4.5 WPI Super Bulky handspun, 12 yards of KnitPicks White Tuff Puff. One 100g ball of Tuff Puff would be enough to create this hat.)
  • 22 yards worsted weight yarn (The sample is handspun 11 WPI worsted weight yarn. This yardage includes yarn used in the pompoms.)
  • Size 15 (10 mm) double pointed knitting needles or circular needles with a cable long enough for the magic loop.  
  • Pompom maker (optional)
  • Gauge: 7 sts/4" stockinette
  • Finished Size: 9 month

My HANDSPUN YARNS - I dyed one fiber, sprinkled with dry KoolAid, and then spun it in two different ways.  

Abbreviations used in this pattern

  • K - Knit
  • P - Purl
  • St/Sts - Stitch/Stitches

The Cloudy Rainbow Hat Pattern - Simplified version for a single super bulky yarn (Size 9 months)

  • Cast on 28 stitches with the backwards loop cast on.  
  • Knit 24 rows or until the hat measures 7.5" from the cast on edge.
  • Divide stitches onto two needles (The first 14 stitches on one needle and the second 14 stitches on a second) and graft closed with the Kitchener stitch.  
  • Weave in any loose ends
  • Create two pompoms out of the remaining worsted weight yarn (or whatever yarn desired) and sew them to the corners of the square shaped hat.  

The Cloudy Rainbow Hat Pattern - As shown in the sample (Size 9 months)

  • Cast on 28 stitches with the backwards loop cast on.  
  • Knit 17 rounds in handspun chunky rainbow yarn (Or really until you run out of your handspun yarn.)
  • Next round: Holding the worsted handpun yarn together with the white Chunky Yarn, knit 7 rounds.
    The hat before grafting
  • Divide stitches onto two needles (The first 14 stitches on one needle and the second 14 stitches on a second) and graft closed with the Kitchener stitch.
    The stitches are divided in half before I grafted the top edge together.
  • Weave in any loose ends

  • Create two pompoms out of the remaining worsted weight yarn and sew them to the corners of the square shaped hat.  



Modify this pattern for other head sizes - Cloudy rainbow is a really simple design.  You knit a tube and then graft the top together with the kitchener stitch. Here are some tips on how you can resize the pattern to make one for any age.  

  1. Measure your head (ex - 20") or determine the desired circumfrence measurement of your hat (Find a knit hat size chart here.)  
  2. Check your gauge.  (ex - 7 sts/4") 
  3. Multiply your head size by your gauge (ex - 20" * 7 sts/4" = 35 sts).  This is the number of stitches you should cast on.  For easy grafting at the end, add a stitch to cast on an even number.  
  4. Knit until the hat is long enough and graft closed as written in the directions.  How do you know the hat is long enough?  You should be able to divide the stitches onto two needles and hold them closed while the hat is on your head.  This length ends up being at least the length from the crown  of a head to the base of the ear as measured on many size charts.  


I really like designs that make people smile, and I cannot help but grin whenever I see Rowdy rocking this hat.  I hope that you enjoy it, too!


These knitting pattern was created by ChemKnits for your personal or charity use. You are not to sell, distribute or reprint this pattern without the permission of ChemKnits. © 2016 ChemKnits

Sunday, October 30, 2016

One Fiber, Two yarns - Spinning the Rainbow

You guys really liked my first spinning video, so I thought that I would give it another shot!


I started with the rainbow speckled roving I dyed with dry KoolAid.  I want to spin this yarn for a particular design, something I haven't really done before.  I've designed with yarn I've spun and I've spun yarn for a particular pattern, but I've never developed the yarn AND the pattern together.


I want to do a big N-ply gradient for most of the yarn... but I also want to have some shorter striped section for a separate piece of my design.  I started out dividing a bit of the fiber into three thin sections to spin.


For the stripy section, I spun the singles pretty thin.  This is going to be a single ply yarn and I like to have an S twist at the end to be consistent with the rest of the yarn.  Therefore, I spun the wheel counter clockwise for an S twist.


Of course after I started doing this I began to regret my decision and wonder if I should make this N-ply too.  Nonono, let's not change midstream...  Although it could be fun to compare Z and S n-ply out of the same fiber but I did the singles completely differently.


I had enough yardage when I finished these singles that I did end up N-plying them.  I wanted the color repeats to be even shorter so plying the yarn helped with that.


When I was filming this video, I realized (once again) how hard it is to spin and talk.  Since it is a vlog I didn't want there to be too much time where I wasn't sharing my thought process but this resulted in me making mistakes sometimes.

Bulky Rainbow Gradient

I took a break in the middle of the spinning project.  The summer was hot and dry and snuggling up with fiber wasn't that appealing.  Once the weather started to cool I picked the project back up and quickly finished the rainbow gradient bulky Z singles (spinning the wheel clockwise).


I think these bulkier singles are about as thick as the thinner, N-ply yarn.  Time to start plying!


After N-plying the thicker yarn (with difficulty as I didn't switch to my bulky yarn orifice and the yarn keep getting stuck during uptake on the wheel), I wound both yarns at the same time around my niddy noddy.  I didn't do the propper niddy noddy twist but instead made the center shaft 2 feet long so I could still have two 4 foot skeins.


I can't get over how stunning the rainbow gradient came out!  


Here is a rundown of the final yarns:
Chunky Rainbow Gradient - Z singles, S N-ply yarn. 17 wraps ~ 22 yards.  9 wraps/2" - Super bulky weight
Thinner Small repeats of color - S singles, Z N-ply yarn.  16 wraps ~22 yards.  22 wraps/2" = worsted weight.

I can't believe that the two yarns have approximately the same yardage!  There is always a +/- when I count wraps because there can be partial wraps in there, which is why I approximated both yarns to be ~22 yards.


It is easy to say that you can get many completely different yarns out of the same fiber, but it was really fun to show you how you can get drastic differences.  I can't wait to show you what I knit with these yarns.  (Stay tuned for a brand new free knitting pattern by ChemKnits!) 

I had so much content that I split this story into two videos.  In Part 1, I spin the singles and N-ply the thinner yarn with shorter color repeats.  In Part 2, I spin the chunky singles for the long rainbow gradient and N-ply this yarn.  Finally, while I was backing up some of the videos, I quickly created an "Auto Awesome" from the files to give my followers a little sneak peek.  It has been a while since I've been able to finish a new video so hopefully this will make people happy.  Enjoy!







Spinning started 6.6.2016.  Finished 9.20.2016

Monday, August 1, 2016

Spinning Broken Violet


4 years ago today* I started spinning on a drop spindle.  This was really my second attempt at spinning but the first attempt didn't work out so well.  I've come a long way since then and since I had just recently published a few dyeing roving videos I thought it was time to try to create a spinning video.

*March 28, 2016


This is not a how to spin video, but a look at how I spun this particular yarn.  My followers frequently ask to see what I made with a particular yarn or fiber, and to be honest I haven't had a chance to knit or spin many of the fibers I've dyed.  They are in my queue of projects but end up being pushed backwards each time a new baby is born or another winter comes around.  Today, in honor of my 4 year spinnaversary I decided that I would take the most recent fiber I dyed and spin it up.  I broke Wilton's violet food coloring on braided roving which gave some really awesome speckles of color.


This spinning video is not a tutorial.  I am not trying to teach you HOW to spin on a Kromski Fantasia like my trusty Sandry, but really more showing the decisions that I made when spinning.  If you gave the same fiber to 20 different spinners you would get 20 different yarns.

Here are some of the questions that I think about before I start spinning:
  • How many ply's do you want?  (1, 2, 3, N-ply etc)
  • What direction will you spin the wool (S or Z)?
  • How thin will you spin the yarn?
  • When drafting the fiber, how will you divide it up?  You could pull the fiber apart to do a gradient, or create long or short stripes depending on how you start.  
  • Do you want to create a specialty yarn by introducing beads, different thicknesses, thread or anything else you could imagine?

To be honest, I don't always think VERY hard about these questions.  I try to let the fiber speak to me and as I start spinning I decide how thick or thin to spin it.  I usually make a decision about the number of plys and the direction before I start, but sometimes even that can change as I go along.  


Today I'm going to make a 2 ply yarn.  I will spin it traditionally with Z-twist singles (spinning the wheel clockwise) and plied with an S-twist (counterclockwise).  Sometimes I weigh the fiber after separating it to adjust, but my singles aren't perfectly regular so I frequently with have a few extra yards on one bobbin even if I start out dividing the fiber evenly.  



I'm not that good at planning out the thickness of my yarn  yet.  I sort of let the fiber speak to me and try to stay consistent with how I'm drafting it.


I wish that I measured the WPI of these singles.  Maybe they are fingering weight?   


Spinning is a lot harder to finish up these days between Lucky, Rowdy and Indy.  Sometimes I'll sit down to start spinning and someone will wake up, start barking or need a snack.  I can't spin while Lucky is awake because he will want to play on the wheel, too.  


Time to ply!  I never know how even the bobbins will be.  In the past I've weighted them but really it doesn't matter too much.  I just try to start with as even an amount of yarn as I can and then try to spin consistently.  


After I finished plying the yarn there wasn't very much left on the second bobbin.  Wow!  I didn't even weigh the fiber this time.  Normally I'd use my ball winder to create a center pull ball and then ply from both ends, but the remaining yarn is short enough that I just wound it around my hand.  I plied the yarn from this little ball.


I wound the 2 ply yarn onto my PVC pipe niddy noddy.


81 wraps =324  feet = 108 yards

If I measured the WPI I didn't write it down.  I think the yarn is probably a heavy worsted but I will need to update this once I can confirm it.


The little skein was not set on the niddy noddy. I wrapped it around my yarn and hung it up to dry.  The skein looks a little fuller and bouncier to me, but it is also possible that the original singles were thicker.


Broken violet food coloring is one of my favorite things to dye and then to spin.  I love the way the colors break into multiple tones.  The depth of color is amazing!  


Make sure you check out the video of my spinning this yarn!  Let me know if you think I should make other spinning videos.



Spinning started and completed 3/28/16.  Plying completed 3/29/16.