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Filed under: Spinning, Eye Candy Friday — Kristi at 9:52 am on Friday, June 27, 2008

Terrabellaspun Special Order Batts

This is what I hope to play with over the weekend. If I’m lucky it’ll all be yarn by Sunday evening. Wish me luck as it is going to be hotter than you know what and we didn’t cool off last night. DH stayed up until around 3am when we could *finally* open windows. That isn’t good sign for comfortable spinning. *sigh*

These batts total a tad over 6 ounces from Terrabellaspun. Glitz/angelina/firestar free! Renae gave me stellar service, I can’t recommend her enough! I messaged her about a custom order and asked how quick I could have it. It was on my doorstep in something like three days. With a custom order!

I should have had it spun up already. Shoot, it should have been knit already. However a design emergency landed in my Inbox about the same time as the fiber that has pushed my schedule off by at least ten days if not more like two weeks.

Fortunately for me, this is a commission project and the yarn I need to knit with is bulky, not at all the number of hours that went into the Journeymen yarn. I did do a little practicing of my bulky spinning as I haven’t done any since my Earthy which I used to knit my Urchin. Ultimately I’d like this new yarn to be a bit bulkier than that was. But, if it matches the Earthy yarn it’ll do. I’ll have to check what I plied a couple days ago and see how it looks.

Have a good weekend everyone!

9 Comments »

Comment by Deborah Robson

June 27, 2008 @ 10:27 am

I noticed it was 82 degrees F at 10:30 last night. Yow.

Spinning in the basement? At the library, or a coffeeshop? Library would be better for concentration. There are some corners that might work. Probably more options at the south library than the main.

Comment by tantej

June 27, 2008 @ 10:52 am

Just gorgeous!! Can’t wait to see the yarn. And the FO, whatever it will be!

Comment by Chris

June 27, 2008 @ 11:26 am

Good luck spinning! Bummer about the temp… It was toasty here for a few days, but cooled off ok overnight.

Comment by mrspao

June 27, 2008 @ 11:39 am

How lovely! I don’t usually feel like spinnning when the weather is horrible.

Comment by Val S.

June 28, 2008 @ 1:32 am

That is Gorgeous! I would give up brownies to spin that up! Please make sure and post pics of your yarn, I am so curious as to how that will spin up.

Comment by cyndy

June 29, 2008 @ 6:02 am

The batts are lovely- and the way you photographed them is too!

We don’t have quite as much heat, but the humidity is terrible..even makes the wool sticky!

Comment by Lani

June 29, 2008 @ 6:56 pm

Lovely lovely!! I can’t wait to see them spun and knit up! Hopefully the heat and humidity will behave for you.

Comment by Hillary

June 30, 2008 @ 12:35 pm

Gorgeous batts. Hope they were fun to spin.

Comment by Carrie K

June 30, 2008 @ 5:39 pm

Purty!

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