November 28, 2005

Startin' at the Top

I started working on the tweed sweater. I ended up going straight stockinette. There's a lot of texture in this yarn and I wanted a mindless project to have around. I am going to put a couple of short rows in the back now and then again a few inches before I begin the ribbing. The fabric is much more muted than the picture shows. I think the natural grey fibers catch the flash and sparkle. I tried no flash, bu that's not working until I can get home before dark. Maybe next weekend.

I finally made it to my spinning guild on Sunday after finishing up the fourth chapter Saturday. Now that the corrie tweed project is finished I needed something new to work on. So I thought back to Claudia's great Spinning Your Stash class and pulled out some leftovers and headed to the Duncan. I had some brown Romney Merino Cross, some pumpkin colored merino top, and some champagne mohair top. I eyeballed it and blended three batts.

Then laid them on top of each other and tore them down the middle and blended each half.

This is going to be a three ply sock yarn. I got about about a half of a bobbin spun yesterday and I'm really surprised at how the bright rust/orange was softened. It will be interesting to see how it turns out.

Posted by Charleen at November 28, 2005 08:16 PM
Comments

I never would have thought to blend top and raw wool together, but it looks yummy!!! Can't wait to see how it spins up!

Posted by: Kim at November 29, 2005 07:33 AM

Fabulous sweater and, yes, you need no stitch to make it better.

What a surprising color you choose to blend! )

Posted by: countrywool at November 29, 2005 08:06 AM

oooh, fabulous color. Actually both are fabulous, the sweater too, in a Fall sort of way. Nice and *warm* looking.

Posted by: Sara at November 29, 2005 09:12 AM

I love when anyone does the stash dive thing on their blog. It's amazing how much my stash looks like other people's stash!! I have some of that rusty orange top!! Perhaps I too should be thinking of blending...there's some nice brown romney locks in my stash....hmmmm.
Thanks for the inspiration! Good luck w/ the next chapter!

Posted by: Valerie at November 29, 2005 02:38 PM

Mmm... the rusty orange and brown together look incredible.

Posted by: Cassie at November 29, 2005 04:36 PM

My dad teaches design (landscape architecture) and I cannot tell you how many times over the years he has commented that I have "too much going on" or some such. Invariably, I'll take a second look at the project and realize the yarn is interesting enough on its own and adding a stitch pattern just makes visual clutter. I think the tweed looks lovely as is!

Posted by: Sylvia at November 30, 2005 01:55 AM

That batt is really pretty. Where can I find a pattern for a top down sweater?

Posted by: Angi at December 1, 2005 11:17 PM

oooooooh, love the colours blended that way. Can't wait to see the yarn.

Posted by: Vee at December 7, 2005 08:20 PM

Happy snow day, chica. Do some spinning today!

Posted by: Karen at December 9, 2005 08:20 AM