Jacey Boggs Workshop

Donna and I went to the Jacey Boggs spinning weekend.  She is an amazing teacher.We just wished I had more than 2 months experience of spinning before doing this workshop…there is so much to learn!

I had heaps of fun, met some new fibre friends and have lots to practice!!

Below are the samples I managed to produce...you can see I still need a lot of practice with my wheel!

Brass and Steam shawl

This is the second project from my Spinners Course at the Spinners and Handweavers Guild.

This wool is spun from fleece straight from the sheep, and then dyed.

The pattern is inspired after Alexander's investigation of what steampunk is.  Then we did a Ravelry search for steampunk, and came up with this shawl. It's called "The Age of Brass and Steel, by Orange Flower.

The green and yellows in this shawl are pretty bright, but I like it like that! :)

Amsterdam Annis

I bought this yarn in Amsterdam. I tried to find wool made in the Netherlands, but there wasn’t any. So I ended up with this yellow from Peru.

The lace work will remind me of the lacework in Rembrandt’s paintings.

The yellow reminds me of the Vermeer and Van Gogh’s paintings I got to see in real life, not just out of art text books.

The yellow is not as vibrant as I would have liked, but the yarn store didn’t have much of a selection in yellow..this muted yellow will probably suit me better anyway!

Pattern: Annis by Susanna IC    Yarn: Misti Alpaca Lace Solids