Cajun Crafting

I am currently fighting with my camera, trying to figure out settings.  So please forgive the poor format of the pictures.

This is on the wheel right now, it’s Shetland wool dyed by Bohemia Yarn Co. I have just about half of 8 oz spun up.  It will be a 2 ply yarn.  Shetland is so fun to spin!  It goes so easily and quickly.  Lots of squoosh factor

Next up is one I’m not so impressed with, I guess it is my first art yarn.  This is a batt from Butterfly Girl Designs.  It consists of bamboo, superwash merino, and firestar, in her Tuscanny colorway.  I intended it to be a singles yarn, but halfway into it realized the staple was not long enough.  So I continued on, and then ran it through again, adding more twist (apparantly not enough though), then plyed it with a gold metallic thread.

This next one is a singles BFL that I dyed with dye leftovers.  I intended to sell it, but it became quickly apparant that while getting to know my new roaster oven (which I use to heat set) I felted the fiber.  I got so frustrated I chucked away half of the roving and just wound off what I had.

I am so in love with this next yarn.  It is a 2 ply, 1 ply is white mulberry silk, and the other is pure bamboo in crushed cranberries by Exclusively Linda Lee.  This was my first time spinning pure bamboo and I do believe it is my new favorite fiber to spin!  It practically spins itself.  I think this will become a calorimetry.

And finally, my Celeste colorway on a merino/tencel blend roving.  I can’t seem to capture the colors in my lightbox – but they are pale blues, white, black, & pink.