Last night, Nate and I stayed up really late. He skimmed through the 5th and 6th Harry Potter books,
and I finished off the beautiful roving.
It’s gorgeous, almost velveteen in feel and look, and I’m really sad. I only have 314 yards, out of 8 ounces. I was going for a worsted weight yarn, because I thought the colors would get muddy in a thinner one, and it came out as I had hoped. I sectioned it off and spun the colors deliberately, going for a combination of stripes and splotches. I have a scarf pattern picked, (Fiona Ellis’s school scarf from Scarf Style) which I’m still planning to knit it into, but I don’t have enough yarn. I really thought 8 ounces of roving would give me more than this.
Sigh.
So, I’ve spun everything I bought at Black Sheep.
(Hee hee. I think it’ll be years before Marie can say that)!
I’m dying to start knitting with my new yarn but I think, for now at least, I’m going to make myself plow through the Sea Silk Stole first.
July 13th, 2007 at 4:05 pm
Wow. Maybe you bought less that most people? I think the roving is gorgeous and it is not at all uncommon to get roughly 630 yards to a pound for the weight you’ve spun. Gorgeous stuff! It seems to me that this would be enough for a scarf–have you considered other patterns, perhaps?
July 13th, 2007 at 4:15 pm
I definitely bought less than most people. About 14 ounces of roving and 8 ounces of batts.
July 13th, 2007 at 10:46 pm
Ooooooooooh. And the beautiful roving became beautiful yarn! 🙂
July 14th, 2007 at 9:09 am
You’ve spun a gobsmacking beautiful yarn! It will be beautiful knit up. I’m sorry you’re not going to get to knit the design you wanted with it, but no matter what you make, it will be lovely.
July 14th, 2007 at 2:48 pm
Beautiful yarn!
We’ll see who’s laughing when the great wool blight strikes and you run out of wool *evil laugh*
July 20th, 2007 at 10:39 pm
Wow, you’ve spun everything from BSG? You’ll have to buy more at OFFF 😉