Christmas is here!

Not the actual day (and a good thing too because I have too much knitting to do between now and then), but the yarn – it’s here!

As you may recall this yarn was hand-dyed and hand-spun by Naturally Spun. And when I say hand-spun, I mean hand-spun on a drop spindle, all 730 yards of it. I’ve only ever managed to get about 10 yards off of a drop spindle. Now you know why I leave the spinning of fiber to other people.

First things first, I wound all 10 skeins into yarn cakes.

Then, I whipped up a swatch of just plain, old stocking stitch.

After lining up all my skeins of wool next to the swatch, I decided that I had to go buy more yarn. I wanted the Christmas yarn to be in the spotlight and not have to fight with other colors for attention. I suppose the natural-white wool would work well enough, but it contrasts with the stark-white roving used to ply the red and greens together. Plus, buying yarn is fun.

I plan to iron out the cable design today. If all goes well, the cable panel will look like a pine tree.

4 thoughts on “Christmas is here!”

I love the colors! I can’t wait to see what you do with it. :)

Very Christmasy indeed. It’s a nice color combo. Drop spinning? I would never have the patience but you can go a lot faster with a wheel and some wheels are really fast. It’s a nice color combo.