In my previous post I discussed the idea of spinning for my first handspun sweater project. In this post I’m going to talk about the details a bit further. I’ll be discussing the specific steps I took, and relating them back to my Juniper sweater spin in 2018, but the general concepts can be applied not only to any sweater,…
In 2018 I decided to knit myself my first handspun sweater. The idea came about part way through the year, when I began to think of what I wanted my Tour de Fleece project to be. 2017 I had completed my first raw to finished project for Tour de Fleece (first time participating in the event too!), and I wanted…
I have been working on this pattern for several months, and while I’ve made one other pattern using hand spun yarn to date, Brazeau are my very first pattern top to bottom that was made with hand spun. I chose a wool I wanted to use specifically for this project, I dyed the yarn, and I made the pattern as…
So let me start out by saying: I am not an expert. I’m so far from an expert that I can’t even see “expert” far off in the distance, frantically waving its arms yelling “come over here!” Experts in natural dyeing take many years to hone their craft. But on the flip side, you don’t have to be an absolute…