Foraging Contest Winner Announcement!

And the winner is...

My friend James pulled from the hat at 10am this morning KnitSonya!

Congratulations!
Please email your mailing address to me so I can send "The Urban Homestead" your way!
adrienne (at) dyegarden (dot) com
I will ship by United States Postal Service.

Thank you to all of you that participated! It was great fun reading all of your responses! Please come back for more contests and more about dye gardening!

In other news...Lots of spinning raining down!


I went Tuesday night to my second A Verb for Keeping Warm class entitled "Phase 3 Spinning: February & Blending Silk with Handcards"

Let me tell you I've never had so much fun! Kristine handed us three different combinations of wool and silk to hand card, blend, spin, ply, and knit. For each combo we first blended on hand cards, made little rolags, then we spun it up. Some folks were on wheels some on spindles. I used a very light Bosworth spindle to spin all of my silk and wool.

I then Andean plied all of my yarn, I learned this technique the night before and was so excited to use it again. For a great illustration on how to Andean ply check out this site! So then I plied it right back onto my spindle and then made a center pull ball of each combo.

I'm telling you I had so much fun blending the different types of silk including noils and tussah. It was really cool to see the colors combine and complement each other. The textures were all so interesting.


Silk noils really do go a long way to create beautiful tweed-like bumps of color here and there. You can see in the above picture the bumps of orange accenting the green silk.

The other class I attended las month was the Angora class " Phase 3 Spinning: January & Angora" , where Marcel was our special guest, inspiring us all to spin his fiber.


Last but not least, with all this rainy weather indoor sports have become highlighted. So I've been spinning and now Andean plying!!!
Here is one of my shipments of A Verb for Keeping Warm's Fiber Club called "Witchy Woman". If you want to get in on the monthly fiber shipment of AVFKW Fiber Club sign ups are this FRIDAY, Feb. 20th! They go fast so you need to be on your toes, go to the site for sign ups!




I cannot wait to knit Woohoo! Thanks for reading!