I spent this week spinning and dying wool/mohair blends and I must admit that they came out stunning!
Bumble Bee Fields
Blood Orange
Gothic Beauty
Blood Orange (without the mohair)
Bumble Bee Fields
Poison
Blue Moon
I am deeply in love with these colorways, but not with these fibers! I spent a couple days this week covered from head to toe in mohair fluff. It was in my eyes, it was on the baby, it was blowing across the floor in little mohair tumble weeds. I had known that I have a reaction to mohair when I wore it as a garment, but I had been OK dying it so I thought I would give it a spin.
I was itchy from fingertips to elbows, my eyes were watery and I queasy by noon. But I LOVE these colorways! So now my goal is going to be to reproduce these colors on some different fiber bases, because I LOVE THESE COLORS!
I have been knitting on my Spiderweb shawl. I am SO close to being finished! I only have a half inch or so left in the wall of my yarn cake. It is almost see through. If I am lucky I will have it done this weekend! My deadline to have the whole thing finished and blocked is Wednesday and for the first time that goal seems atainable.
I also got a couple books yesterday that I have been lusting over for MONTHS! I got these
OMG!! I am so deeply in love! They have great close up pictures, wonderful clear line by line instructions and charts (in the cable book). I absolutely want to knit each and every of the over 500 patterns that are in these books. I don’t have nearly enough yarn!
October 26, 2007 at 10:15 am
oOo…I love them all, but the Gothic Beauty is my absolute favorite! I’m in a pink kick of late.
As for the books, I so want the newest Stitchionary that’s geared towards crochet.
October 26, 2007 at 10:43 am
That first bumble bee thing is singles, right? Nice! I have the cable book but not the knit and purl one (which I want). Lovely colorways!
October 26, 2007 at 12:49 pm
oh no~!
i hope you feel better soon.
did you card/prepare that roving yourself??
i’ve never seen rovings with mohair in it.
beautiful work!
October 26, 2007 at 2:58 pm
I love those colors too! I was eyeing them in your etsy but I’m allergic to mohair. Icky! That blood orange though…OMG. If I wasn’t on a yarn diet, I woulda bought that so fast it wouldn’t have known what happened!
October 26, 2007 at 3:01 pm
I love, love, love Poison. 🙂 And have fun with the Stichionaries – I love knitting stitch compendiums, and the Vogue ones are awesome – very inspiring. Another book you might be interested in (if you don’t have it already) is Cables Untangled – half of the book is knitted projects, but the other half is a bunch of cabled stitch patterns, and it includes some great ones as well.
October 26, 2007 at 4:40 pm
You are absolutely right, your colors are stunning, in fiber and spun, just wonderful! I’ve got the Knit & Purl book too, and I like it. Will consider buying the others. I’m not a fan of mohair blends either, but have a few, I must spin. ;o)
October 28, 2007 at 4:57 pm
three words…
beautiful
and
inspirational
!!!!!
November 7, 2007 at 11:25 am
Truly beautiful colors and the mohair has such a nice look to it. But I’m madly allergic as well, so I sympathize!