Work in Progres...

So I haven't posted to this in a while. I spun a couple of new autumnal yarns a while back: Halloween and Pumpkin-y like:


















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I love the Pumpkin Patch one. =)

Anyway, I'm not spinning for a while now because I'm knitting my Clapotis! Yay Clapotis! I've caught the Clap! (Oh....wait.......) It's turning out really pretty so far though. Knitting it with Cascade yarn. I'm happy. I'll definately post pictures once I'm finished.

Cotton Candy Bubblegum!

I pimp out yarns like a pimp pimps out his ladies.
Bad analogy?

Anyway, I just finished my latest yarn. Started on it Friday, maybe yesterday, I can't even remember now...and finished it today.
Started with dyeing some new blue roving on Friday night with some blue Kool-Aid (hey, I'm not going to drink it, might as well dye with it, right?) and ended up with a pretty pastel -- cotton candy blue color. Decided that I needed to mix it with my psychedellic pink roving that I had leftover from my strawberries and cream.

Aaawww, so pretty! =)
So I spent a lot of Saturday spinning (I felt really sick in the chest -- lots of coughing. Not fun) and I spent a LOT of today doing so as well.
After Family Guy this evening I wrapped it into it's respected skein and went to soak it for a while, beat it against the walls and bathtub -- I give it no mercy. And I now have this lovely skein of yarn!

I named it Cotton Candy Bubblegum because it looks exactly like that Bubblicious cotton candy bubblegum. And it kind of smells like it too. I'm rather proud of it too because I think it's the thinnest yarn that I've spun yet. I'm not sure what I'm going to do with it, but I might add it onto whatever I end up making for my boyfriend's niece. =)

Strawberries & Cream

So with just a couple of days gone since I finished my Kool-Aid dyed yarn (which I may or may not do again...leaning towards not...) I've finished the yarn that I inteded to make with said roving!



The first picture is truest to the color. The second is kind of crappy, but gives you an idea of the weight the yarn is (i.e. the coin is a 10 cent Euro piece -- closest coin that I could see out in the open -- it's about the size of a penny). I'm really, really pleased with how it turned out. I was a bit worried due to the shocking color of the roving and while I was spinning the individual strands it was REALLY tight, I wasn't sure if there was going to be enough of each...THEN while plying the yarn started kinking up on itself. ::shakes head:: Tricky, tricky yarn. But after beating it, soaking it, squeezing it, etc...I think that it's just about perfect. =) Now is the curious question about what I'm going to do with it. Maybe it will just sit out as decoration.

Cotton Candy!

So this is my latest bit of dyed roving. I decided this time that I would try my hand at Kool-Aid dyeing. Really, really simple. A packet of Kool-Aid and some water. (I read somewhere 1 part Kool-Aid, 2 parts water) I used Black Cherry and Cherry, hoping for some variation in colors, but I pretty much ended up with bright pink...pink...and hot pink. I'm a bit gun-shy about trying Kool-Aid dyeing again since I was really hoping for a deep red and I obviously didn't get that at all. =(
...It is simple though...

My First QUILT! (And A Skein of Yarn)

I am SOOOO excited! I just finished piecing together my FIRST QUILT EVER!!!!! =D =D =D I've been kind of working on it on and off again since May or June, but my sewing machine was broken, and I'm pretty awful and hand sewing. I cut a bunch of the small pieces when I first got my fabric and was able to sew together maybe one and a half strips and then my sewing machine completely crapped out on me. That was all I did until the end of July, broke down and decided that I needed to get it fixed -- no matter the cost.
The sewing machine fixings cost me about $25 I think, and I haven't had any problems since. Well...then I had another problem!! The green sashing in the middle and edges that I had originally bought was too little (misprint maybe???) and so last night, I went and bought some green fabric that was similar to the original that I bought back in May and I worked on it all last evening and this morning and I'm done piecing it together!!!


Here it is, laid out on my floor in all of it's glory. =D I would venture a guess that it's about 3'x3', maybe a little more. I haven't measured it yet. I have yet to actually quilt it and I need to put the backing fabric on and stuff, but other than that...gah! I love it! =D

And just so I keep in the spirit of knitting (haha, not that it's always necessary or anything...). I have to whore out my favorite yarn ever (that I've made, that is).

It's name is "Yin Yang Panda" and it's ~87 yards (as the card on it says). It's so nicely spun and even. It makes me so happy because it's the first wheel-quality yarn that I've spun on my hand spindle. I have no idea what I'm going to make of it. I might just keep it for decoration. Who knows!

YARN PR0N!!!!

Hello. My name is Auna, and I am a yarnaholic.
Now, my yarn stash isn't nearly as bad as some peoples that I've seen. Except that whereas a lot of people have so much yarn they don't know what to do with it, I have so much useless yarn that I don't know what to do with it! =O
Now, I'm one of these people who, when they make something, they want to make something useful. Not little toys that will just sit in the closet collecting dust, or gifts that will be underappreciated, etc.
What do I do with my yarn? Take pictures of it and post it to my blog. What else?


Here it is. All laid out in all of it's porny goodness.

Now, from left to right in more detail (oh I'm so dirty...)

These are the cottons. There are 5 (yes 5) skeins of Sugar 'n Cream. Some KnitPicks sport weight cotton (really lovely stuff!), and some Esprit sock yarn that I used for my Lolita Toes.


The two skeins in the middle here are my "fancy" yarns. One skein of beautiful and soft Noro (wool, angora and whatever else is in it...) that I bought from a LYS over half off for some reason. The second skein is leftovers of a lace weight alpaca. I need to find the pathetic excuse of a scarf that I made with it and frog it and make it into something much more lovely.


Here, next to the Noro and alpaca I have my novelty yarns. A really cool black w/ rainbow bits, some terry-cloth-esque yarn, some eyelash yarn. Nothing really spectacular. Something that I'll use for embellishments if anything.


My favorites! Some of my handspun yarn. =) Nothing really over the top spectacular, mind you. I think everything pictured there is under 100 yards and I have no idea what to do with any of it. =( Boooo


And finally, my wools and wool-like yarns that I'm not really sure if they're wool or not. There's a bit of KnitPicks in there, some dye-your-own stuff and some stuff from Hobby Lobby and Michael's. =)

And that's all...do not think though that this is all that I have! Because it's not! I have a couple more skeins of my own handspun stuff, and a couple other purchased skeins that I know what I'm going to use them for. Oh yarny yarn yarn.

Long Time No Post!!!!

So I'm finally all moved into my apartment and I finally have some nice time to actually post what I've been doing the past couple of weeks!


These are pictures of my favorite part of my apartment. The bedroom! =D The windows are the windows that look out on my street, right next to my desk...heehee. And the tapestry above the bed is my boyfriend's. I think he either bought it in Tibet or China. One of the two.

Now onto the crafty things!!!

Here are 4 nice dishcloths that I knit before I moved in. This is my sink! =D


These are my cloth pads that I sewed (sidenote: HOORAY! MY SEWING MACHINE LIVES!!!!!!!!!!!!). Yes, they are pads. Like maxi pads. My boyfriend couldn't believe it when I made them. Haha. They're kind of crappy, but they are my first attempt at them, so I'm proud. =)



Here is a pretty necklace that I made just the other day. The large beads are Asian-ish, I wanted a cool pendant for the middle, but couldn't find one that I liked at the bead store, so I decided against it. I still really like it. =)


Gloves...pretty self-explanatory. =) The colors in each are a little different and weird, but I suppose that's what I get for using hand-spun yarn.

And here is a picture of the first skein of yarn spun in my new apartment! Hooray! Believe it or not, I spun all ~178 yards of it in one day! Crazy!!!!