Yay!! I finished something!
Yarn! That I made!
Here are the before pictures of the skeins before they went into their bath:
and after a nice long hot soak and a good thwacking:
The blue yarn above is Merino fiber from Freckle Face Fibers in the colorway ‘Isle Caribe’. It is 302 yards, Navajo plied and DK weight.
The red is superwash merino from The Wool Peddler in the colorway ‘Enchanted’. It is 420 yards, two-ply and fingering weight.
See? I said I’d have pretty handspun for you today!
In other AWESOME news, one of my clients has some BIG NEWS that I’m allowed to share with you all! This client – actually they are more like friends for whom I do the books and buy props for the show – produces television shows and…and..ohthisissoexciting…WE’RE GOING TO BE ON THE TEEVEE!! Tonight, June 24th at 8pm on WIVM TV 52 and/or Time Warner Channel 365 and 367 and/or WIVN TV 29 Time Warner Channel 99 (these are Ohio/New Philly channels) Spad Johnson, Private Eye will be airing for the first time, ever! This is a long time in the making and if you are in the Ohio/New Philly area please, PLEASE watch and if you like it, let the station know, let everyone know! Spad is a private eye in 1950, the show is very much like the movie The Maltese Falcon or the original Dragnet series, and if you do get a chance to watch it, Spad’s desk is from my family’s farm and I helped pick out most of the props (other than bookkeeper, my official title is ‘propmaster’, how cool is that? hehe)
That’s all for now!
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26 Responses to “Yay!! I finished something!”
gorgeous handspun! isn’t it amazing what a good wash will do to yarn?
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Gorgeous skeins! Feel free to send me the red one-hehe. :-)
FINALLY! Yeah, I can see why you’re excited. :)
Both yarns were beautiful in person, but of course my heart goes pitter pat for the red one. Beautiful work!
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That yarn is fantastic! Such exciting news about the tv show – wish I could watch it here.
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Your yarn is stunning!! The tv show is so exciting. I wish I was in the viewing area. I hope it does well.
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Gorgeous yarn! And very cool about the tv show. :)
LOVE IT! Such pretty, pretty yarn! And I love how different it is after you wash it! I must learn to spin.
Tell us how the show goes! I wish I could watch:) What fun!
Robin Marie’s last blog post..And if fate should break my stride, then I’ll give you my Vincent to ride…
That sounds so cool, is it on only locally (I live in NY)? I would love to check it out. I’m not sure if you remember but I met you at Clermont (you were signing a bag at the Into the Whirled stand) and I made sure to get your card, love the bags! And your handspun is gorgeous. Don’t you just love what a good wash or reskeining does to the yarn?
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Do people have to bow before a “prop master”? Exciting news. Maybe you can youtube it for the rest of us? Gorgeous yarn – just gorgeous! What are your plans for it?
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Loverly! Yeah… what Deb said! What’s it going to be?
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Fabulous yarn! You are a master at the wheel. Congrats on the t.v. show.
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Looove the yarns!
How fun! A TV show that you had a hand in – guaranteed to be good. :)
LOVE the new handspun. I almost bought that FreckleFaced roving colorway myself!
Anne’s last blog post..WIP Wednesday
Love the spinning!
I think a good thwacking can cure a lot of things and not just with spinning.
You’ll be guest starring on the show at some future point, right?
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purrdy, purrdy spinning, funny how it behaves once it has gotten its bath & whacks.
Excellent news on the show – that is great!
heather’s last blog post..The Family Man
Oooo. Pretty.
I had no idea that when spinners showed their lovely new yarn it had been through a wash and thwacking. What a difference a good thwacking makes! They are both pretty, but the colors in the red are amazing.
Congrats on the TV show airing!
Brenda’s last blog post..Time on the Patio
Hey, that is fun awesome news about SJ, PI. Happy for you all. Now if I could just watch it…
That’s fun awesome yarn, too.
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That’s all very exciting. Sadly I won’t be able to watch but I wish I could.
Your yarn looks amazing.
Hillary’s last blog post..Un-Stinky Socks
Wow I feel like I know a celebrity (see comments on last post to get the irony there)! Seriously, that’s so cool that you have a hand in TV-land. Let us know how it goes.
And the red yarn is my favorite.
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Wow! I had no idea washing and thwacking made such a transformation…like blocking for lace.
Gorgeous yarn!
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Your spinning is fabulous. I must make more time for my wheel. That TV show is just our thing. I hope they show it here soon.
margene’s last blog post..Love That Lace
Congratulations!! Oh and that yarn…sigh.
I put your bag on my knitting& blog today. :)
http://www.knitting-and.blogspot.com
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Oh, yum, that yarn looks fantastic — LOVE the colours in the Isle Caribe!! Soak/thwack: it’s a good thing. :-)
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Pretty yarnz!
Aw, I wish I was in the Ohio area for that show, it sounds great. Good luck to them!
So. Did you get your phone?
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Beautiful handspun! And that is the coolest news ever!
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