I'm A Sucker For A Sale.
So this local farm is having a sale. I posted on my local Stitch n Bitch board that I wanted company and one person was brave enough to offer to accompany me and the boy.
Off we went today, 2 moms in the front, 2 babies in the back of her car. Good company, great conversation, good spirited kids. It was a fun day.
The best part was the yarn sale. Ohhhh. You pull up and there's bin after bin of yarn. Ever color imaginable. No seriously, every color. All for $9.00 a skein. Too bad I already bought my yarn for the holidays. I did buy some. (Does anyone ever leave a sale without yarn?? No.)
What's here? 2 sage colored cotton and acrylic mix, 2 natural colored silk, cotton, lamb's wool mix and one cranberry color.
Funny story about the cranberry colored skein- when I first started knitting I bought a skein of yarn and when I learned how to do socks I knit up a tube sock with the one skein. I didn't have enough for 2 socks so I've had just one random sock floating around. It's this same yarn. Now I can make a match! I'm going to frog the old sock, seeing as I now know how to make a heel and all.
And what's this???
Yep. Roving. For free. It's acrylic, but when I start to spin I want to try as much as I can. This is just the beginning of a love affair, I can tell. I also sniffed out a possible used wheel. This is really getting exciting.
Off we went today, 2 moms in the front, 2 babies in the back of her car. Good company, great conversation, good spirited kids. It was a fun day.
The best part was the yarn sale. Ohhhh. You pull up and there's bin after bin of yarn. Ever color imaginable. No seriously, every color. All for $9.00 a skein. Too bad I already bought my yarn for the holidays. I did buy some. (Does anyone ever leave a sale without yarn?? No.)
What's here? 2 sage colored cotton and acrylic mix, 2 natural colored silk, cotton, lamb's wool mix and one cranberry color.
Funny story about the cranberry colored skein- when I first started knitting I bought a skein of yarn and when I learned how to do socks I knit up a tube sock with the one skein. I didn't have enough for 2 socks so I've had just one random sock floating around. It's this same yarn. Now I can make a match! I'm going to frog the old sock, seeing as I now know how to make a heel and all.
And what's this???
Yep. Roving. For free. It's acrylic, but when I start to spin I want to try as much as I can. This is just the beginning of a love affair, I can tell. I also sniffed out a possible used wheel. This is really getting exciting.
posted by Sunflowerfairy at 3:39 PM
5 Comments:
I had nothing to do with this! My fingerprints are NOWHERE near that roving.
I'm totally curious about how long the fibers are. Can you do me a favor and grab one "hair", pull it out and tell me how long it is?
Oh, trust me, you had your sticky little fingers all over this.
The fibers are about 4.5 inches. Is that good? Bad?? Long?? I dunno. I thought of you the whole time I was there because she had lovely roving- blues and greens. So pretty.
You CAN'T blame me! Not little, ol' me!
4.5" is pretty long. You might get frustrated with a light drop-spindle. If you figure out how to "park and draft", you'll do fine. Although I know people who are just beginning and are doing fine with a drop spindle with this length.
Here's another little test for you. Grab a small pinch from the end and give it 1/2 twist then pull. See if it just pulls apart or if it seems to grab and pull more in. What I'm looking for here is how sticky it is. I imagine it might be pretty smooth (which is a source of frustration for me since I'm new). But then again, free is free, for god's sake. If you totally botch the whole batch, I have a feeling it's not going to bother you one bit.
Yeah, it's smooth, but not too bad. And free is free.
I want to avoid a spindle if I can. I'm tempted to borrow one from someone just to see if I like it, but I get the feeling it won't have the same meditative quality that spinning on a wheel has.
Great yarn - such pretty colors!!
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