Spinning Samples

When I first started spinning, I would feel the need to spin a pound or two of one fiber and then make another sweater. As I would get closer to the end of my declared project, the spinning would be close to torture. I don’t wear sweaters and because I knit fast, they would just keep piling up my closet. So in between, I gave myself permission to make one-balls. They could be whatever I felt like. I could prepare the fiber by blending things together or just by dying white, or over-dying brown or gray. Pretty soon, the one-balls started to pile up, so I started making everyone hats for Christmas. And then I started making second hats for everyone for Christmas. My family was rescued when I my hats were accepted for sale at the Brewery Arts Center in Carson City.

My goal is to knit a couple dozen new hats by September. Here are a few that I’ve finished from a dying we did a couple of dye weeks ago. The blue one is for one of my grandsons and I’m knitting a duplicate for his brother, per my DIL’s request. The yellow dots are the rabbitbrush dyed yarn. Think how long I’ll be able to put rabbitbrush yellow spots in hats, since I dyed a pound of wool.

Okay, I said I’d forgo cat pictures, but this is Sir Charles, who should not be appearing in this picture, ala Monty Python. He came to us a little kitten with attitude, so we figured he must be cat royalty.