Art Yarns and Other Things

I realized that I haven't posted on here in quite some time. This spring has been very busy with shows and custom orders plus a baby blanket I made as a shower gift for Kiwi.

I have been spinning a lot of yarn, and I'm really happy with some art yarns I've spun. I'm getting so much better at it. I have lots of projects for this summer, so it is good that I don't have another show until August. My summer projects include finally getting some practice spinning on the wheel. (I had some issues with the drive band that I fixed, but then I was too busy to practice.) I have LOTS of art yarns planned to spin, mostly for my big spin-a-CD project. I'll be spinning a skein of yarn inspired by and named after each of the songs on Eddie From Ohio's Looking Out the Fishbowl CD. I'm also planning to make some Pride and sports team color beer cozies, some barrettes, some more coffee cozies, and some herbal moth/insect repellant sachets with my own custom blend of herbs. AND I want to work out a nice, quick bookmark pattern. Whew!

Since I've been super happy with some of my (relatively) recent art yarns, I thought I'd post some pictures.

Here is my first Spontaneous Spinning Batt from Loop:



It came with worry dolls, which I attached to embroidery thread and spun into the yarn.


I also got my first batt from Terra Bella Spun and spun that into a single that I plied with crochet thread strung with satin bows. I have two more batts from Terra Bella Spun waiting to be spun; one will be used for one of the Fishbowl yarns.


Finally, I just finished spinning Uniquely Yours' Spring Flower Ravelry Spin Along batts. I loved spinning this one! I spun one skein of boucle style art yarn plied with lavender sewing thread that had flowers threaded on it. Some of the flowers came with the batts. The purple and yellow velvet flowers I got from the Upcycle Exchange. I had a little bit of the single left over when the flowers ran out, so I have a small single also. Both are self striping, with a color sequence of green, purple, yellow, purple, green, purple, etc. to sort of emulate the colors of the crocus, the flower that was the inspiration for the batts.

Here is a picture of some of the roving balls I made from the batts all lined up in the color sequence.


And here are pictures of the finished yarn.



I really love this yarn, and I want to see how the stripes turn out, so I decided to keep the yarn and knit it myself. I have a cool idea of what I'm going to make and will probably keep the FO (finished object) for myself. Stay tuned for FO pictures!