Last night I assisted with a spinning class at Deep Color last night. The topic was color work primarily using hand cards. The class went really smoothly and everyone had a good time. We were looking at the effects of blending two colors in different amounts with the idea that you could create gradations in your knitting or weaving. We also looked at blending very small amounts of color into white and black. We did all this and more. I didn't get a chance to navajo ply my sample up yet. I will show you when I do and what it looks like knitted up too.
Claudia, the owner of Deep Color, has been periodically getting in bags of beautifully dyed polworth roving. It sells out within a week or two of it arriving it is so popular. Last night she had a little bit left of two colorways. So I purchased some more to add to my growing collection of this polworth. The three balls that I purchased last night is the big green ball that is to the left of center and the two balls of bright purple that are at top right. I am not sure who she gets if from but it is beautiful stuff. I haven't quite decided what to do with it yet.
Claudia also had some naturally dyed polworth locks from an earlier class. I couldn't resist so I bought all of it. It is about a half pound. I think I may make a baby sweater using these locks and some natural white polworth locks that I already have. I am really excited to start spinning this.
Have a good weekend!
Did something change? I'd love to read your articles (especially of the ones with pics), but your posts are showing up in your sidebar. (Not in the main body of your site.)
Posted by: KnitterX | July 26, 2005 at 07:23 AM
Thanks for fixing this. You rock.
As a non-spinner I'm curious, what makes the polworth so desired? What type of fiber is it? Is the texture any different between the natural dyed and the (um.. man-made? alternative? commercial?) dyed roving?
Posted by: KnitterX | July 27, 2005 at 07:42 AM