Saturday, March 24, 2007

dye-along yarns




here's the array of yarns i spun from our dye-along superwash corrie roving. gotta confess i spun more than 6 ounces as i dyed 3 different batches and probably kept more than 2 ounces
of each. anyway, here they are and i absolutely love every bit of 'em! am thinking maybe i'll knit something entrelac and see if i can remember the lessons from Lynne last June at our twisted friends reunion in Alabama. that was fun to do and i ended up with a cute little bag that Lynne bailed me out on at the finish, when i got bogged down and frustrated with just how to finish it! maybe i can remember to take a photo of it and put it up here! what i love about these yarns is that we all 3 started with the same 3 colors, each added a fourth.... and there is such variety! we did, of course, each add our touch in how we combined all these rovings, and separated some sections of color out to get various effects.




these are some of Pam's that i spun and plied by themselves. what is so frustrating to me is that the camera just doesn't show the subtleties of what i am seeing. these are deep and glowing colors with a lot of life in them!!














and these are 3 of Lynne's. top and bottom yarns were spun straight from the roving, and the middle one i separated out some of the colors and spun them by themselves. I love how that bright orange gives such attitude to the skeins.










I wanted some of the yarn to be soft and pastel and be a contrast to the others, and here's what i got from some of my rovings.

6 comments:

Angi said...

Beautiful!!!

Meg said...

I love all the variety you got out of those rovings. They're gorgeous, every one!

Meg in North AL

Blaine said...

Sandy this has been so inspiring! Thank each of you for sharing the process. Each skein is wonderful :)
Blaine

Carolyn said...

Wow!! Those turned out GREAT! They are ALL just so beautiful. Thanks for sharing them with all of us.

LORI LAWSON said...

Sandy, what a gorgeous array of yarns. I think they might look lovely in the Lady Eleanor entrelac stole from the book Scarf Style.

Unknown said...

I'm in absolute awe of the colors and subtle shades. If they look any better in real life then I'd likely be drooling.
Thanks so for taking the time and effort to share. So inspiring.