Remember the Unicorn Spit? I wound up one skein of it for swatching, because the Pirate Socks are still in time-out and I didn’t want to disturb them. Here’s where things get weird: I’m getting 10-11 wraps per inch on this yarn, so it should be a heavy DK or light worsted weight yarn. But it was a little tight to knit on size...
I have just one last skein of the Unicorn Spit fibre to spin! 840 yards of finished (though unwashed) three-ply yarn and just over a hundred grams left to go. It’s really neat to see how the big stripes of colour in the fibre get so blended into the yarn, which is exactly the heathery desaturated colour that I was hoping for when I...
An Etsy gift card, combined with a sale on some of the (discontinued) Ashland Bay multi-coloured top, combined with a little egging on from a friend, combined with the need to have a little bit of retail therapy, all came together and thwacked me over the head, resulting in a delivery of spinning fibre arriving at my house. I bought these two braids of...
“World of Wool Custom Blend” was too boring for a project name, so I was going to pick something more descriptive and fun. Every time I look at these colours combed together, all I can think is “Unicorn Spit”… so I guess that’s what it is. Not too dignified, but certainly descriptive! Since I haven’t done a project this ambitious before, I thought it...
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