Bright sunlight, Bright colors.

Finished the small scarf last night, as it turns out I did the same ratio as the last one but because of the colorway it blended better. My friend suggested that I use more contrasting colors as in "you know who" yarn, that will be next time.

It is so gorgeous that I took it outside for a sunbathe...

Not having to go to work today, I stayed up and cast on another "Aran Flapper Hat' with a yummy "Peter Rabbit" I had stashed away.

Finished it this afternoon, and it deserved a sunbathe too...
The color is so intense to start with, with the sunlight it just burst in the ivy.

I am very happy with it.

It is a size small.

4mm needles

Peter Rabbit from Fleece artist.

Sample

Here it is, a better mix, still not what am aiming for, but still lovey.

Nice colorway, all my favorite colors, this afternoon I will experiment more and prep fibers for Thursday spinning...

More color spinning

Last night went through a marathon of Forsyte saga on DVD and finished the homemade "Noro" scarf.

Came out very colorful, but the blend is not enough for my taste. I do like it though.

In the afternoon as I was knitting I got the urge to try more spinning, changing the ratio of the blend/main colors.

Choose a new colorway...
Which gave me this ...

Home from work today I wound it into a ball...

And here we go, ready to cast on a smaller scarf I think, not quite enough yardage, and energy only to knit after a day at the office.

Spinning results

Last night finished the scarf and immediately took the spun yarn down from drying. Didn't take a break, didn't breathe, wanted to get to it right away!!!

Lying down on my desk I do love the colors and the way they melt into each other.

Even wound into a ball it looked great.

So cast on another scarf...

And this is what I think. The main colors are too long versus the blended parts. Also knitted it makes too large a block of solid colors. As Cedar posted in the comments, I will lay out the strands in a different order, lengthen the blended parts, am thinking 2 lengh blended for 1 lengh solid.
Something to look forward to next spinning session.
Meanwhile today is knitting club day and I am going, missed my buddies.

Spinning Sunday

Woke up this morning with the idea of creating my own "Noro"...

After some thoughts shared with my spinning buddy, I decided to pick a color scheme, using the same lengh of each color, and splitting the roving into very fine strands. What seem to work was to spin until 20 cm before the end of the strand, preparing that strand to be narrower and narrower, taking the next color strand and stretching it from narrow to regular width. Combining the two, blending as I went, I got an idea of the ratio of each strands to use to achieve the blend.

Here is the color way.

Spinning went quite well, a bit more time consuming as I have to stop and start all the time, thinking of some way to lay the roving out to speed that up a bit.
Some idea of the colorway, I would call it "earthy rainbow"

While this sets and dry, I am going to finished yesterday's scarf. 2/3 done, I do like the color mix, and the change in texture every other row.

Can hardly wait to make another one with my own "Noro"...

Scarf binge

OK am on a binge of scarves. Cant stop making them, having tremendous fun doing it and going back and forth between 2 patterns.

This morning cast on another bi color multi directional, this time noro silk garden socks S245, and Fibertrends angora I got before I went on holidays. Yum Yum, no other words describes it...

I think the colors are going to blend in a very interesting way.

Last night finished another potato chips in silk/mohair with the phildar blob blobs. Still 1 hour to cast off 800 stitches but with the help of Lucy Neatby`s condensed bind off, it reduced the time considerably and it so cool to do.
Slid this one in on Tuesday...

and this one...

and cast on this one last night and finished this morning while watching `Bonnie and Clyde`

All in all pretty productive week even though I went back to work in between...Wonder how long I can stretch the `jet lag` thing as a mean to do nothing else in the house.....Oh well made a tajine for dinner so I think I can spend more time staring at movies and knitting my fingers away!!!

Scarf finished

Another good day of knitting, I do love winter I don't feel obliged to go outside and get to sit and knit all day...

Finished the second scarf, running out of Noro, as my friend says, "step away from Noro" could be a thought right now. Not.

I like the colorway of this one, very West Coast, though outside was grey as I was staring at 2 movies...Love the new toy.