Blue Knit Treasury

I haven't had much time for stalking treasuries lately but I looked at a few yesterday and saw that they were opening up in just a few minutes!

Candyland Inspired Yarn

I thought I'd tell you a bit about how I made my Candyland Inspired Yarn for the EtsyFAST challenge for June.

First I chose the colors to match the squares on the path of the gameboard: read, purple, yellow, blue, orange, green. I selected equal amounts of each roving and then pulled each one apart in equal pieces.
I spun the single with the colors in the same order and then repeated the colors, after that my bobbin was quite full!

The first picture shows the single on my lazy kate. In the second picture, I've started plying the yarn. I navajo plied the yarn so that my colors would stay together. I wanted solid color stripes for this yarn instead of the plys being different colors for most of the yarn. In navajo plying the spinner makes big crochet chains with the single ply and twists the three strands together into a three ply yarn.

Here's the very bright and colorful finished yarn!

Ever Wondered How to Make Really Long Section Names?

http://raisinlike.blogspot.com/2009/07/how-to-create-long-section-name-in-your.html

Puppeteer On The Roof explains it!

5 Favorite Things About Summer Blog Carnival

1 Watersports- Water skiing, boating, kayaking
2 Beach
3 More light/ longer days
4 Swimming
5 Camping

I think that a pretty good list. Notice how most of them involve water to keep cool! I'm not a fan of the summer heat, but if its going to be hot out might as well do something fun!


If you missed the last episode, here's the June 22 edition!

My Light Box!!!!!

I now have my very own collapses to flat light box!

I don't have space for a light box that just sits around being an empty box most of the time, so I made one that can be stored flat! I got some inspriation from http://clinecreations.blogspot.com/2009/02/space-saving-light-box-finally.html but our boxes are different sizes. My top is also different because I didn't like cutting out tiny slits in the cardboard. It's not the prettiest, but it seems to work. I just need more lights now!

Finished Item: Neckwarmer/ Scarflette in Green with Ceramic Buttons

I finished the neckwarmer I talked about in my other post. :)

Results Are In: June 19, 2009 Blog Carnival

Birthdays and summer!

http://panopticamx.blogspot.com/2009/06/etsybloggers-carnival-june-22-edition.html

Current Projects

I've been switching gears from dying to spinning and knitting this week. I spun a brand new skein of Blue Faced Leicester Yarn, as well as a mini skein of some wool yarn I had from a while ago (shown hanging to dry on my door to the right). I only had a little sample, so I'm thinking of putting this together with some other hand spun yarn.

The second picture shows some possible yarn combinations. I'm looking at combining it with other small bits of hand spun that I have.

I'm also working on what to knit with it. Since its a small amount of yarn, I'm thinking of making a neckwarmer and adding some lovely handmade buttons that I just bought from ginpins. She makes such great buttons that its sometimes a race to buy them first!

I'm currently knitting up a neckwarmer in a new pattern that I think will work for the hand spun one as well. This neckwarmer is knit with yarn from Yarn2Spin; it is Shepherd's Wool from Stonehedge Fiber Mill in Michigan in 2 shades of green.