I'm really proud of this stuff. It's the craziest yarn I've ever spun ever. Clearly I've been taking a stab at the freestyle spinning in the style of Pluckyfluff, Material Whirled, Insubordiknit to name just a few.
It's called Drag Queen Grover. I was talking about it the other day and the photos really don't do it justice. I spun some Merino that was dyed varying shades of blue thick and thin style, spun randomly (using my hell's angel hair method) with some locks of fluffy mohair that was also in varying shades of blue. Then I strung a bunch of iridescent acrylic beads onto clear nylon thread and plied the thick and thin yarn with the thread. It created a sort of boucle looking effect. With occasional beads. And sometimes I twisted several beads together creating a little necklace hanging off. Crazy stuff. Looks like a muppet in drag. And it's blue like Grover so...Grover in drag.
I hope I don't get sued by the Sesame Street people. There's an extrordinary amount of this yarn considering it's a novelty freestyle type yarn: 160 yards. More than twice what you usually see for sale. Beverly thinks it would make a HELL of a One Skein Wonder :)
This stuff is just nutty. The mohair is really soft and fluffy as is the merino. The beads make cool clicky sounds. It's not nearly as tangled as it seems in the photos. The sun was at a very odd angle when I took these.
Anyway, I'm planning on selling this for seventy bucks. But wait! If you buy in the next ten minutes (ok not really I'll be offering this the whole time) I'll throw in these two matching sample skeins!
The one on the left is a fifteen yard skein is a single ply spun from just the blue mohair locks. The one on the right fifteen yards and is the mohair spun with random locks THEN plied with the singly ply of the mohair locks. So that's 30 yards of matching yarn IN ADDITION to the 160 yards of the beaded stuff. Possible material for the cuffs of the OSW? You decide!
All that for the low low price of 70 US dollars plus four dollars shipping! I'll be posting it on the Etsy site on Monday so let me know in the comments if you want to buy it first!
I seem to have been in a blue mood lately because I also took four commercial yarns in varying shades of blue and plied them together to create a really cool super super bulky yarn.
This yarn has one strand each of: imported electric blue brushed mohair, slatey prussian blue brushed merino, teal brushed suri alpaca, and baby blue plied cotton (leftover from my ballet t). It will continue to fluff out over time creating a really interesting depth of colors as they all fluff and blend together. It's just under 50 (49.88 to be exact) yards. Using much larger needles, like 35s and 50s, this would create a great scarf.
I'm calling it Extreeeeeeme Blue. Yes, that's a Harold and Kumar reference. I'm a dork. I'll be putting that up in the Etsy shop as well selling it for 25 US dollars plus 4 dollars shipping. So let me know if you want to snag it first!
So, with my silly sales pitches overwith I'll show off the Marilyn sweater that Scout got from Anna for me. Thank you Anna!
It's really nice isn't it? And I got Cody to take a photo of both my hands at the same time wearing the armwarmer things!
Before
(That shirt says Leeroy Jenkins Whelp Training Academy - as in Leeeeroy Jeeeeenkins. I stole it from Cody. Well, he wears my free to stitch free to bitch and craft pirate shirts)
After
Think there are enough photos in this post? I'm not sure. Oh, and I finished the first sock of what I'm calling the "Ironic Cabled Socks" and I'm well into the second one. And I've finished spinning a good amount of some pink superwash and white tencel blend. Not quite as funky as Drag Queen Grover up there but pretty nice.
Ok I feel all caught up now I'm going to go do some sock knitting.
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I love it! And that sweater just looks so great on you.
Sorry I missed you last night but I was gone from 4-9:30! Did you get some good stuff?
Posted by: Scout at March 26, 2006 7:05 AM
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