Someone on Etsy liked my “Ultra-Violet” roving so much, they asked me to spin them some yarn using those colors. So I recreated this roving and have a single on the bobbin right now. I will be getting a ball winder so that I can ply this back on itself. See, I have pictures!

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I spun this up from one of my farmers market rovings and then plied it back on some blue nylon thread. I’m excited about the results of it. Also, I’ve been getting some sage advice from Etsy seller KnittyDirtyGirl (see link on side bar.) I am going to do the other half and hope to get a much tighter ply.

I dyed some roving a couple of weekends ago and just really got a chance to spin it up. The yarn is spun thick and thin but I don’t know what else I should do with it. I was thinking of plying it, but I am not sure. I am open to suggestions though.

I think I just like goofy names. I made this yarn for the wonderful and super nice Ashabee05 at Etsy. I really hopes she likes it. This is approximately 74 yards of corriedale wool, spun thick and thin. Weighs in at approximately 3 ozs.

Here is the yarn before the twist was set:

After setting the twist:

Wow… what a seductress.

This one just leans on the window taunting you, telling you to “Come here and be my baby”

I have some red probably sock weight yarn drying on the racks as well. I am working on a recreation of the yarn that makes up my avatar on Etsy for someone who was interested in it. I have that wool dyed and with the fan on it has already dried. I may spin it tomorrow. I also plan to spin the remainder of a roving that I turned into a boucle yarn. The original is not for sell but this portion will spin thick and thin. Last but not least on my list for this weekend is creating a novelty yarn. Then I can use it in my plying kit pictures so that people can see what the end product could look like. (That idea is courtesy of cimorenegal from Etsy chat. Thanks!) I have May 1st off for my anniversary but I have no plans and a final on Tuesday and Wednesday. So my yarn-y plans for Monday is to make a sample handspun skein for NotablyGifted. She crochets but has never worked with handspun. Maybe I can get her addicted…. just kidding. I like to share my joys and I dont mind providing it for free. I have had others do it for me.

Anyways, this is the newest edition to my shop.

I will be adding this to my store soon. I want to have a contest with it but I think the yardage is too short. I am going to rethink this tommorrow and just wait for now.

Here is a sample pic. I think I will take more pictures for better lighting and perspective.

I hope I get something done before the weekend is out. I finished spinning some Alpaca from a batt and then wound it in what looks like a center pull ball and committed to plying it. Of course there is not a whole lot of it after I did that but I seriously thing the plying is doing better. I now have 2 learn to spin kits, 3- 4 oz balls of pastel-ish colored roving, a duo of thick and thin yarn in purple (one part plyed with thread on part thick and curly.) I also have a few mini-skeins that I will try to post for reasonable prices including, 43 yards of rose colored alpaca and 43 yards thick and thin royal’s forest. I also have tiny amounts of a baby blue alpaca, and ingeo. I need samples though so they may get volunteered. I will attempt to upload pictures tomorrow. It will be a good experiment.

I am going to be having a sale at my store for my Birthday tommorrow. All items will be 25% off plus one dollar IF they are over $10.00. Purchase amounts can be combined for a discount. I hope to add some stuff to the listings tonight.

Edit: Since I don’t have enough stock I am going to have the sale at the end of the week. This makes it better all around!