Hand Spun Treasures

1. Decorated Garbage Can

Thanks for having this great challenge. I found myself going beyond my normal boundaries.

Pertinent Categories Notes:
The yarns in the Material1 photo from top to bottom are:
1) Hand dyed Handspun Blue-Green Variegate & Textured Novelty Shetland Wool Yarn
2) Hand dyed Red Chenille Yarn
3) Hand dyed Handspun yellow-green (chartreuse) thick n ’thin Shetland Wool Yarn
4) Hand dyed Handspun Red-Orange Variegated Yearling Mohair
5) Hand dyed yellow-green Shetland Wool locks
6) Hand dyed Hot Pink Silk Cocoons

Added 1 item - Garbage Can

Teri O’Neal - Olympia, WA

2. Handspun Hat

I would like to enter this into Handspun Treasures.

I began with locks and the silk hankies that I had ordered from your site. I spun the silk on a small spindle very fine and made a two-ply yarn. I took Chartreuse wool fiber and spun that into a thick and thin yarn. Then I used turquoise wool and spun that into an over spun single, which I then plied with thread, pushing up the fiber so it would make little tails that stick out of the yarn for my novelty yarn. I took a small amount of red/orange mohair and spun it. (I am allergic to mohair, so I only spun a small amount.) The only thing I did not spin was the red-orange ribbon.

I used the chartreuse thick and thin yarn and the turquoise novelty yarn to make the body of the hat. I then put the locks in the crown of the hat so they hang out. Then I crocheted the mohair and ribbon into a flower form and used a hat pin (my extra item) to connect it to the hat. I crocheted the pink silk into small flowers that I sewed onto the base of the hat.

It was really a fun and challenging project - to spin novelty yarn and to use so many opposing colors in one project. Thank you for the opportunity. Please let me know if you received this email and that the pictures are OK.

Anne O'Connor - University Park, MD

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