Hey look! I made yarn! This is is 8 ounces of Mountain Colors Targhee roving in the Wilderness colorway, spun up to somewhere around 450 yards of worsted weight 2-ply.
This yarn is very soft, and I wasn’t going to get any more of this roving after the first batch that I spun up, because it was really sticky to draft – I think maybe it was a little felted, and this batch was the same way. But I gave the first hank to my neighbor and saw how great it was knitting up into a scarf, and immediately wanted to do the project myself. Oh, and I haven’t been buying yarn really since I started spinning, yet the gift certificate I had at Needlework Unlimited was burning a hole in my pocket, so there you go.
I made more yarn after that. I started with this 8 ounces of superwash merino from Crown Mountain Farms in the Wild Horses colorway. Man, I love this roving. It is so soft, it drafts a dream. And it’s fairly narrow roving, making pre-drafting unnecessary. Crown Mountain Farms is great! Fast, friendly service, and their prices totally rock. They have great colorways, too. Go there, buy fiber!
I weighed the roving before I started, and split it up into three chunks in an attempt to get equal amounts of singles on each of three bobbins. The colors in the yarn look totally different to me than the roving, in a good way. I actually bought this colorway because I’d seen a picture of it spun up on Ravelry.
Eventually, I had three full bobbins of singles, and then I had a little fun plying it up. I keep reading about people who put off plying, who don’t enjoy it. I love plying. It is so fun to watch my finished project coming together after all the work that went into it.
Pretty, pretty sock yarn – right about sport weight.
Daisy likes it too.
I can’t wait to knit this stuff up.
I love Crown Mountain Farms. Their prices are a steal and they vend at the fiber festivals here in Oregon so I always make a stop with them a priority. I have several of the old colorways [dyed by Teyani] in my stash, but some of the newest batch of Klaus’ colorways are really calling to me. Do not need more fiber!
Very pretty yarn! I’m envious.
I totally love their Sock Hop yarn, but I want to become a better spinner before I use their roving – what I would do to it now would be bad advertising! LOL Yours is gorgeous!!!
I really like that Wild Horses colorway. It looks great!
Oh, that is so pretty! Yummy, indeed. Go, you!
That sock yarn really rocks.