I've also been spinning again! I used some fibre that I bought from the IKnit day in London a couple of years ago. It's 100% superwash BFL from the Skein Queen, in the colourway Pink Lady Apple. Now they happen to be one of my favourite varieties of apple, although I don't buy them very often. Sweet and juicy, and just like the colours in the fibre. It really is the perfect name! I split the fibre and spun each half, before plying them together. I'm working on getting enough twist into the fibre, and obviously need a little more, as I had a couple of breaks whilst plying. But I'm really pleased with the yarn, and love how the colours have worked out!
Talking of spinning, I've been playing around a little bit with some of my handspun from last week! I have this seed of an idea for a project, so I did some swatching and calculating, and have cast on! I hope that I have enough yarn! I won't give any more away at the moment, but hopefully next week, I'll be able to do a 'ta-dah!' post!!! Here's a sneak preview ....
I took part in a 'Favourite Things' swap on Ravelry recently. You had to send some of your favourite things (both knitting and non-knitting) to your partner. I was in a three-way swap with Shelby and Nancy. I received a fabulous parcel from Shelby last week.
In my parcel there was a skein of Malabrigo sock yarn, in wonderful shades of green, some handmade chocolates, a sheep soap, a fantastic box with little compartments for all your knitting notions, some stitch markers and some Chibi needles. Wow! How lucky am I?! Do you want a closer look at those chocolates?! I can't believe they've crossed the Atlantic, they still look perfect!
What would be your favourite things to go into a swap parcel? I'd love to know! See you soon! xx
11 comments:
You have been totally and enviably spoilt, knitting with mink and cashmere, receiving all those lovely gifts, excellent. My perfect swap parcel would always contain the kind of things yours did, plus maybe some nice cards and coloured pens or an engrossing paperback from an undiscovered author. I don't ask for much do I.
Well my favourite things would be a silver and pearl stone charm bracelet, cath kidson hand cream - smells simply divine and some debbie bliss cashmerino aran wool oh and to top off with a nice chocolate Wispa bar.
By the way love the colours in all the yarns featured - absolutely lovely.
Leah x
Love the colours in the spinning.
I'd like more time as well as all the lovely things you got.
Ohh, yarn with mink in it!! I may have just added that yarn site to my favourites. ;)
Your handspun is beautiful, the colours are gorgeous. And those choccies look delicious!
Wow! What a lovely swap goft! The Ane Hanson scarf yarn looks and sounds absolutely gorgeous. Have a good week. Ros x
Those chocolates are beautiful, almost too pretty to eat...almost.
Hmmm...my favourite things... yarn from Laughing Yaffle, definitely, old fashioned boiled sweets and something that smells lovely from Lush I think.
Your spinning looks great and that scarf pattern is very pretty.
Hope you have a great week.
That's a lovely swap gift ... my goodness. As always i love the colours in your post ... especially the idea of Pink Lady wool. They're my favourite apples too.
xxx
The yarn sounds gorgeous!
Re spinning - which ratio are you using to spin? The higher (smaller) ratios will put more spin into your singles whilst you still treadle and draft at the same speed. And they make plying much quicker!
The swap parcel looks lovely - the notions box is something I keep meaning to buy, and the locking stitch markers are really useful, I use mine lots. The chocolates look yummy too!
Brilliant swap Josiekitten! And the scarf is fabulous - I loe the colour and your description of the yarn makes it sound like something kinda desirable - yes? Looking forward to the "ta-dah"
do you all have monkey bread in the UK? It very vaguely looks like the balls that would make up monkey bread. that's the only thing i can think of. Using that yarn must be divine.
That is quite the favorites package! Wow! In my package would be yarn, some type of mint chocolate or blackcurrant sweet, perhaps some wine or liquer(not sure how you'd ship that), and a good mystery novel, preferably from a UK author (Susanna Gregory, MC Beaton, &c). Oh, and maybe some bath stuff... like a bubble bath.
I had a "dream night" last night - read a book whilst drinking wine in a bubble bath. Heaven! I've debated knitting a washcloth in the tub... I saw it in a book once and the image has always amused me.
oh wow - i've never even heard of mink yarn! i can't imagine how soft it must be. and what a lovely color!
speaking of lovely colors - ooooooh your handspun is knitting up like a dream!
you're making me want to learn to spin!!
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