It’s kind of a crapola photo (taken with my Blackberry), but I think you can still get the idea. There’s beads in dat dere yarn!
What the heck, you ask? Well, I’ve been decluttering the house, and have found a TON of spinning fiber just waiting to be…well…spun. Now just plain spinning gets a little dull after awhile, so I thought I’d mix it up a bit, and toss some beads into it. I’ve tried threading beads onto a string & plying said string with a wool single, but didn’t really get the results I wanted. Then I saw this YouTube video:
What a brilliant idea - threading a bead onto a bit of fiber, and incorporating the fiber & bead into the single as you are spinning. It’s fabulous, if not a bit tricky, and takes some practice. Just what I needed to spice up the spinning!
Am I going to spin enough beaded yarn for a stole, or a scarf, you ask? I’m really not sure if I’m that ambitious. That’s a helluva lot of work. Not that I’m against hard work, mind you—-it’s just that right now I’m all about the fun, and learning new stuff. These days, as soon as the “new” wears off, my mind wanders to something else. Can you be diagnosed with ADD for the first time when you’re middle-aged?
Oh look! A butterfly….!
5 responses so far ↓
1 Cheryl S. // Jun 11, 2009 at 6:08 pm
Good to hear from you! Hope you’ve been having fun. Oh look - a squirrel!….
2 Jocele // Jun 11, 2009 at 10:59 pm
Hi! The yarn looks great. Nice to see you post…now you’ve gone and made me feel all guilty about not posting on my own blog. I’ll check my schedule for next week tomorrow and email you.
3 Anne // Jun 12, 2009 at 5:39 am
It’s a ton of work. I spun several 400-yard-ish skeins eons ago, and had a bunch of requests, but it takes SO long to do and I hate having to futz with the beads. Sure is pretty however!
4 Kim // Jun 12, 2009 at 8:10 am
Cheryl - Thanks! It’s been a whirlwind year, that’s for sure.
Jocele - Just let me know when & where, and I’ll be there, sweetpea.
Anne - FOUR-HUNDRED YARD SKEINS? Holy crap. Did you fit all of that on one bobbin? Was it a single, or plied? I can never seem to get more than 180 or so yards of 2-ply to a skein.
5 jill // Jun 12, 2009 at 12:27 pm
What a lovely result. I’m thinking a shawl. Something that would look almost like liquid over your shoulders with those lovely beads glistening in the sun. I sound like a writer for the J. Peterman catalog!
Oh, ADD. I self medicate with coffee. Works like a charm.
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