Stitching for Sanity

I’ve been in a bit of a funk this month.  I’m having a hard time coming up with things to blog about (besides cookies) and I haven’t really been making anything (except cookies and a lacey scarf that I can’t seem to photograph), so I haven’t bothered blogging.  I’d rather not write anything than write about how I don’t have anything to write about.

Today, though, I actually made something from start to finish.  I had this superwash wool and nylon yarn in my basket of handspun and I decided to try an experiment.  I cut ten strands of yarn about ten feet long and did a five strand braid (I held two strands together).  I was hoping it would be a cute little scarf but it came out narrow, about two inches.  It looks pretty cute wrapped around my neck two or three times as a little skinny scarf, though.

Here’s a detail shot.  The yarn had yellow slubs, white nylon knots and little sections of pink nylon.  When I came to a slub or knot I held them in place on one side of the scarf so it has little puffs sticking out.  Nothing too exciting, but it’s cute.

I’ve also been doing some spinning.  I spun up some scrappy coils last week but it’s been too dark to get a good picture of them and I’ve been spinning some white ingeo into pretty thin singles, trying for a fingering or sport weight with that.  The ingeo is some that I got off Ebay (and forgot to blog about).  The auction said it was two bags of ingeo (made out of corn) waste, so it was cheap.  The fiber has a super short staple length and it sheds everywhere and feels a little synthetic and squeaky, guess that’s why it was so cheap.  But I have around a pound of it, so I’ll spin it and see how it turns out.  I’m barely half way through the first bag and I’ve already filled one bobbin so I should get some good yardage with it, too.

I’ll try to get some pictures of my black scarf tomorrow, but for now I’m off to catch up on blog reading and email before Lost starts.