Handspun Romney & Blue Leicester Knitted Hats - All Fiber Arts
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| Handspun Romney & Blue Leicester Knitted Hats **Show and Tell Gallery - Work done by our Forum Members |
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Handspun Romney & Blue Leicester Knitted Hats |
| "The skeins of yarn are Romney wool from "The Royale Hare" here in Northern California. the blue hat and tiny sock are my handspun also." |
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| The Romney was dyed when I got it. www.royalehare.com is the site of the shop, but I got the wool at Stitches West. It was an off-dye lot with different colors than she intended. The wool had a long staple, and was very smooth and shiny. Having never worked with Romney before, I made some mistakes, but I finally ended up flicking each lock, then drawing them into pencil rovings before I spun. the color variations in the skein make them really nice. I think another hat is called for, since that's all there is of the yarn. oh, and I immediately noticed that the skein ties looked awful! they showed up a LOT more in the photo. by StellaFay |
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| The blue hat is from a pattern in Spin-Off magazine that i modified. it was the issue about Blue Leicester.I think I used a different pattern for the band, but not sure about that either. That yarn was a blend of natural charcoal grey fleece carded with black llama and rainbow-dyed fleece in the blue-purple-magenta range. It's darker in real life, and has kind of a shimmery quality from the changes in color. I spun the yarn after a long break from spinning, so it's pretty inconsistent.
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