Upcoming Studio Tour Weekend

On November 8th and 9th, NaturallySpun will be participating in Tacoma's Studio Tour Weekend. You can visit and view my latest creations at Tacoma Art Place located at 1116 S 11th St., Tacoma, WA. The event will last from 10:00-4:00 both days. There will be spinning demonstrations, fiber information, and a great give-away. Also, there will be a special item for purchase with 1/2 of the proceeds to benefit Tacoma Art Place. Please stop by and browse for Holiday gifts with NaturallySpun.

Two Pairs of Gloves!

Denver Friend's Gloves

Ooops Gloves


Well...

After starting the first glove for my friend in Denver, I realized that I had made the first glove a little snug and about 10 rows too short. So below is actually the first glove for my friend, but the second glove that I made. This brought me to another dilemma, I needed to spin more yarn in order to have enough to complete at least one more glove. I decided to attempt to spin the same amount from the same roving and then I would have identical yarn and the gloves would all match. Good theory, but it did not work out quite right. Oddly enough, I did end up with only ten yards more of the second batch of yarn, and the patterning did match up perfectly for the mate to the first(oops) glove, however as I started the mate to my friends glove, I soon noticed that well-they would match but not match up. It is okay! So goes life with wonderful handspun yarns. Now I have pics of both sets of gloves and they turned out wonderfully although not perfectly matched.

First glove is finished!

Well today, I have the first glove finished and I am spinning the solid purple so I can ply another skein of yarn for the second glove. I should be able to finish the little bit of spinning and plying today, but we will see how that goes.

Etsyversary!

This week NaturallySpun is celebrating its two year Etsyversary. There is a sale going on, with your choice of the better deal for you. Please see my shop for details :

http://www.naturallyspun.etsy.com

In other news, on my needles are fingerless gloves bound for Denver made from my hand-dyed handspun yarn. Later today when I have more of the glove done, I will post a pic of that too.