Spinning Against The Tide

While I was drum carding the seaweed shades of fibre, I also got some sheep fleece dyed, I dyed it in the microwave with Easy Peasy Dyes from Hilltop. As you can see I mixed red and blue up a bit to give varying shades of purple. Before you can start to drum card the sheep fleece from its raw state it needs to be teased out first. But once I sat down Tuesday evening (watching Judge John Deed)and got it all teased and ready to go, the drum carder really is a breeze when it comes to speeding through fleece.

Once I'd finished carding the purple I decided to be bold with brights, this pink, turquoise and green are as bright as they look, it was just pure instinct that told me to put them together, I had them split into strips hanging over the back of a chair before I started and I kept worrying whether it was going to be too much.

Of course we're not going to know how it really works until I start to spin it, but I tried not to dull the colours too much by over carding them.

I've finally finished my Jaywalkers, I finished the knitting Wednesday, but didn't graft the toe until last night, not the weather for photos yet, but they've been keeping my feet warm all day!

I'm still making good but slow progress with Durrow, and I've re-started the gloves I had to frog before Christmas.