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!

Sunday Sunday Treasury

Knitting Mette made a treasury of EtsyFast and EtsyKnitters and kindly included my crochet and felt mug.

Moonlit Garden Handspun Yarn

For my Moonlit Garden Yarn I started with these:

top left is my handdyed River Garden Roving, top right is some cotton yarn, bottom left is sparkly gold tinsel, and bottom right is shetland roving.


and spun them into this:

My Moonlit Garden Handspun Yarn! Starting with my River Garden handdyed wool roving I spun a thick and thin single. I spun another single with a cotton yarn, white shetland roving and gold sparkle tinsel and I plied those together.

This is an entry in the EtsyFast AugustChallenge.

ETSY FAST'S AUGUST CHALLENGE - CELESTIAL THEME:Fast stands for Fiber Arts Street Team. We work together to promote our fiber art and the Etsy site. Just for fun, we pick a challenge each month for all of us to be involved in. The August Challenge is anything celestial, suggested because we will have both a meteor shower and a total lunar eclipse this month. If you would like to enjoy our submissions Search either "etsyfast" or "augustchallenge".

River Garden- Handdyed Merino Yarn

Things seem to have calmed down just a little and I found time to dye some yarn.
Here it is rinsing in the sink.



And after it dried. :)



Here's the etsy link http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=6478095
I posted this in the EtsyFast JulyChallenge. To see all the entries, just search for "etsyfast" and "julychallenge" on etsy.com .

This was very fun to dye. I started with the blue and added the other colors thinking of flowers.

Scored a Treasury

I decided to feature the fiber folks of etsyfast for this one. Some lovely things in some lovely colors. :)

Etsyfast Sample Bags and ACEOs

The Etsyfast Sample Bags are now for sale in the group shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5068591

The pictures look great! I really wish I could have contributed more to them. They just have my business cards.

There is also the June ACEO Challenge (ACEO = Art Cards Editions and Originals). They are small collectible pieces of art.
To find ACEO's by FAST's fiber artists, search tags and titles for "ACEO" and "EtsyFAST" or look at the shop's favorites.

Mine are here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5944531
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5749690

I'd like to make another, but June looks like it will be a really busy month offline.

Etsy Fast

I'm a member of the newly formed Etsy Fiber Arts Street Team. It's a great group. We talk about all sorts of fiber fun stuff. The group website is here http://www.etsyfast.com/ . We also have a street team page http://team.etsy.com/profilest/fast.shtml and a yahoo group http://groups.yahoo.com/group/EtsyFAST/ . We have the coolest banner. It has so many pictures in it representing lots of fiber art. There are lots of pictures on our yahoo group site too. You can search for things made by group members by searching for "etsyfast" on etsy.com