{"id":699,"date":"2010-02-23T09:30:53","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T16:30:53","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=699"},"modified":"2010-02-22T17:33:20","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T00:33:20","slug":"ravelympics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=699","title":{"rendered":"Ravelympics"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>How are your Ravelympics projects going?<\/p>\n

I can tell you that they are probably going far better than mine.\u00a0 I have yet to pull out the fiber I decided upon for my spinning project (the superwash Corriedale that was to become socks).\u00a0 Instead, I have been spinning some green batts that were the first to ever come off my drum carder.<\/p>\n

I had received some very, very dark green with touches of red and yellow fiber from Deep Color in a swap several years ago (see the yarn to the right).\u00a0 It was one of those cases where I highly doubt my swap partner had read my questionnaire because I had listed green as a color I don’t like.\u00a0 (It wasn’t even until everyone was supposed to be finding out who their secret swap partners had been that I realized that my partner had fallen off the planet.\u00a0 Oh well.)\u00a0 So, I had this nice merino that just happened to be dyed a rather unfortunately color.\u00a0 I tried spinning some of it, but hated the color so much that it languished on a bobbin for almost a year and a half.\u00a0 I ended up using it as my first attempt to Navajo ply because I didn’t care if I completely screwed it up.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>I had spun less\u00a0 than half of it, so I still had over 2 oz. of this fiber laying around.\u00a0 Then, I finally decided to get brave and try to use my drum carder.\u00a0 I bought an ounce of bright yellow silk from Spunky Eclectic<\/a>; it was a color called Walking on the Sun.\u00a0 I blended the 2 together and got a much lighter grass green.\u00a0 The silk also add a great feel.<\/p>\n

I have been wanting to practice spinning from the fold and these batts seemed like good practice fodder.\u00a0 Next thing you know, that’s what’s on my wheel.\u00a0 The problem?\u00a0 I started spinning it back in September, so I definitely don’t believe it’s eligible for the Ravelympics.\u00a0 My wheel got put away after I had spun only 1 of the 4 batts I had made because the new puppy showed too much interest in wanting to chew on the treadles, which I just couldn’t let happen to my beautiful Catherine.\u00a0 When I got the wheel out to begin working on the superwash Corriedale, I saw the silky green bobbin and couldn’t help myself.\u00a0 The Corriedale was forgotten.<\/p>\n

At least my knitting is going okay… I think. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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