Well, I've been a busy spinner, knitter and now dyer recently. In my last fiber post, I showed the Pagewood farms Mississippi Mud BFL that I'm working on for expressions in spinning, and I've been dedicatedly spinning that up. I have to say that I wouldn't have picked up that fiber if not for the group, but now I'm really loving it.
Also for the expressions in spinning group, I had a little dye day for myself today. Laurie's gone out of town to visit her family (I was supposed to go with, but, alas Laurie had somethings to take care of this week that she wasn't anticipating and our plan of driving out there became Laurie flying out there for 3 days. I'm bummed, I would have really liked to see her family, as it's been since January. If all goes as planned, we will be seeing them in June, which is not that far off.), and we were able to get a microwave so I could dye things in the garage without making a mess in the house, so I pulled out the Kool-aid and had a lot of fun. I was actually dyeing for two projects, the first one in the pictures is for expressions in spinning, wildflowers. I was picked for the topic of "plants" and had a beautiful picture of wildflowers that Laurie and I took on our second wildflower hunting trip (I don't think I've posted any of the pictures from that particular trip). I kind of turned that topic around and dyed the fiber colors that reminded me of Laurie and our roadtrips. Let me warn you, it did not turn out as planned, but I still like it and it's all good. Also, I took these dyed fiber pics with my cell phone, which is not the best quality. I'll be retaking and posting them when I get the good camera back from Laurie when she gets home. The colors I used were a blue/green (turned out) for the color of our car, brownish (turned out) for the dirt that gets on our car on our trips, dark purpley/black (didn't turn out) for the road and our favorite color, dark pink (turned out) for the color of our roadtrip journal, with some white in there for snow. Here's the picture:
This second fiber is silk, mohair and merino wool that I'm going to card together. I dyed each fiber type in four different colors and when the fiber types are all carded together, I'm going to card together the colors for a lovely shawl. I'm hoping that it turns out beautiful...
On the knitting front, I've started a new pair of socks. These will be a gift for Laurie for her Master's degree. The fiber is superwash merino and bamboo and was handdyed by the owner of our little yarn store, Tempe Yarn and Fiber. The yarn is so colorful that I chose a relatively simple pattern so the two didn't get muddled up. You can enjoy the pattern that the yarn makes, with the simple embellishment that the pattern adds. They are coming along nicely...
I'm expecting two new spindles in the mail in the next few days. They are birthday gifts from my mom. I was expecting to have to special order them, but when I went on the maker's website, low and behold, there were the two spindles I wanted in the woods that I wanted. So, I ordered them and I'm really anxious to have them here already. In anticipation of getting them, I got a little bag from Tempe Yarn and Fiber to put them in. It's also working well as a sock project bag until I get the spindles. Both pictures are of the same bag, just inside out!
In other fiber news, Laurie and I had been planning a road trip out to Nebraska for her family reunion in June. I found out that the Estes Park Wool Market is happening the week before the reunion, in Estes Park, CO. We would be driving through CO anyways and I'm really excited to go to this fiber festival. Jumping up and down excited!!!! My younger brother, Nathan, is also going to join us on the first part of the road trip (he is going to fly home when we get to NE). Needless to say, I'm really looking forward to this trip!
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