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Crafts update
It's less than two weeks until I graduate and move back to my homecountry, which means that I'm very busily not packing and not taking care of admin type things to do with not living here anymore. Much of what I do instead is fibre things.
I'm halfway through the second chart now, and it's unbearably pretty, rather tricky, and loads of fun.
I finally finished spinning the single last week. The little plying I did on my very first wool taught me that the spurtzleur isn't able to handle particularly much yarn, so I tried using a bamboo crochet hook for plying instead.
It's better but not great. Or maybe I just don't love plying. Here about one third of the single has been plied (on the hook). This is where I start suspecting that my yardage is far beyond what I was expecting.
Finished plying! (I'm going to guess 10-15 hours went into that, if not more. It was preeetty tedious towards the end, probably more because I wanted to see what it would be like when it was done than because I didn't like the process.
I made the mistake of winding the wool onto a bendy folder, with the result that the hank was very uneven, so soaking it didn't make much of a difference to the twistiness (or rather the longest loops turned out beautiful and the shortest stayed kind of crumply). I rewound it on my arm, which is slightly less bendy but not perfect.
Now this is drying in our hallway!
Estimated yardage is somewhat more than 160m, and I forgot to weigh it before soaking but I think I had around 30g of fibre. I'm very surprised by the sheer amount of wool that came out of that little fluffy piece I started with!
I'm excited to see what it's like when it's dry, too: right now it's completely unsquishy and very scratchy, but it looks like the soak has really relaxed the twist. I'm thinking of knitting a couple of basketweave potholders, though they may need to be doubled up since the wool is so thin... Hmm!
In exciting and related news, in about a month I'm going to take a course in bobbin lace making! Yaaaay! I have attended this course before, but it was two years ago and I've been too busy to keep working on those skills since then, so it'll be very awesome to meet a bunch of old ladies and get some hands-on teaching. Last time I tried on my own, I messed up the width to length ratio in such a way that what were supposed to be symmetrical rhombuses looked more like...carrots, really.
I'm halfway through the second chart now, and it's unbearably pretty, rather tricky, and loads of fun.
I finally finished spinning the single last week. The little plying I did on my very first wool taught me that the spurtzleur isn't able to handle particularly much yarn, so I tried using a bamboo crochet hook for plying instead.
It's better but not great. Or maybe I just don't love plying. Here about one third of the single has been plied (on the hook). This is where I start suspecting that my yardage is far beyond what I was expecting.
Finished plying! (I'm going to guess 10-15 hours went into that, if not more. It was preeetty tedious towards the end, probably more because I wanted to see what it would be like when it was done than because I didn't like the process.
I made the mistake of winding the wool onto a bendy folder, with the result that the hank was very uneven, so soaking it didn't make much of a difference to the twistiness (or rather the longest loops turned out beautiful and the shortest stayed kind of crumply). I rewound it on my arm, which is slightly less bendy but not perfect.
Now this is drying in our hallway!
Estimated yardage is somewhat more than 160m, and I forgot to weigh it before soaking but I think I had around 30g of fibre. I'm very surprised by the sheer amount of wool that came out of that little fluffy piece I started with!
I'm excited to see what it's like when it's dry, too: right now it's completely unsquishy and very scratchy, but it looks like the soak has really relaxed the twist. I'm thinking of knitting a couple of basketweave potholders, though they may need to be doubled up since the wool is so thin... Hmm!
In exciting and related news, in about a month I'm going to take a course in bobbin lace making! Yaaaay! I have attended this course before, but it was two years ago and I've been too busy to keep working on those skills since then, so it'll be very awesome to meet a bunch of old ladies and get some hands-on teaching. Last time I tried on my own, I messed up the width to length ratio in such a way that what were supposed to be symmetrical rhombuses looked more like...carrots, really.