Saturday, February 16, 2013

WINTER SKY

 The 3 batts above remind me of a winter sky...blue and grey with clouds or snow...remind me because we have had an unseasonably warm winter with little snow.
 The yarn was spun and then plied with a metallic blue thread.
This yarn consists of cream and grey natural colored Shetland wool and blue dyed Shetland wool (by Katie), some blue/purple fine wool, nepps, soy silk, firestar, and recycled soda bottles. Yes, soda bottles...it is a shiny soft white fiber...amazing stuff.

Winter sky describes today...grey clouds this morning...snow flurries at noon...blue sky with white wispy clouds this afternoon!

4 comments:

Kelly said...

Beautiful stuff!! How many yards did you end up with when done?

Hidaway Farms Shetlands said...

Hello Kelly,

Thank you! The 3 skeins had a total of 193 yards. Our little drum carder doesn't make very large batts. They were pretty quick and easy to do though.

Thank you again for the compliment!
Christine

Laura C Frazier said...

I just love these!!
Hope y'all are well!

Laura

Candy Duell said...

I would love to read about recycled soda bottles. Would you post about that someday?
Thank you!