warning: ancient crone blood

Note: copying some of this from what I posted on wordpress as a follow up to a recent post about knitting with 18 yards of handspun yarn. Today, apparently, my hands wanted to be used, but gently. Thus I now have a handmade business card holder embellished with handspun yarn.

How far does 18 yards of handspun yarn go if you mix it with other yarns? Well I’m here to tell you that I got not one, not two, but three projects out of 18 yards of my handspun, and I still have a yard or so left over. Huzzah!

( 2 photos below the cut )


A business card holder made out of two-toned merino Shepherd’s wool (red and pink) closed with a purple button. I used the white handspun to embellish the bag with a smiley face and some edging. The bag is resting on a pile of buttons I had poured out to choose from; the remaining handspun is above it. This one is definitely for me to keep, as I’d been planning on making something homemade to house my business cards for awhile. Huzzah for finally finishing it!

The following is a small amount of market research. Feel free to ignore, sorry to stick it in an otherwise purely knitting/spinning related post but it seemed relevant and I didn't want to just post two things right on top of one another.

Today I finished a shawl for my sister. I have been trying to knit something for her for ages, and have indeed finished several somethings and then deemed them "not good enough" and found them other homes. (I know, I know.)

Today's knitting is definitely "good enough" to take on any weasel. (That's not a dare, by the way. Shoo! weasels, shoo!)


Close up of a striped shawl done in the style of my earlier color affection, so stripey concentric circles intersecting at different angles is the best way to describe it? In shades of purple and white. One of the yarns, the one that is most variegated and has bits of pink and brown, is one I spun myself. (And I still have 50-60 yards to play with, woo!) For the curious, the cream/white yarn is a local yarn that is Border Leicester, and the other purple is a chunky Peruvia Quick (so Peruvian Highland Woo)
( 2 photos and knitting/spinning talk behind the cut )\o/

Now to hope that my sister likes it...but if she doesn't, that's not something I can control.

I guess that was what was so great about this project...I didn't really know where it was going from start to finish. When I was spinning I kept wondering how many yards I would get, what I could knit with it, etc., and it was mainly just fun to have an excuse to look at patterns on Ravelry. I didn't really know it was going to turn into a modified color affection until I started knitting. If I got stuck on one part of the process, I slept on it, and that usually made it better. I am so, so proud of the result and my "process knitting."

I finally am almost out of the fiber I initially got when I started spinning - about 11.5 oz of fiber total, and I have about 1 oz left. Well, except there is more in my future. *cackles maniacally* Srsly though, it is cheap when you consider how well it is treating me mentally.

So here's some eye candy, as folks have been asking:


Multi-colored looped cowl and headband with green button made from handspun yarn on the back of a sofa

( Don't say I didn't warn you it's PHOTO HEAVY )