jen knits: It's official...I'm a blogger slug

Has it really been that long? Summer is half over and I've not posted in so long I don't know where to start. There's been spinning and knitting and dyeing and S.E.X.! Oh, and I'm on Ravelry. I'm jenknits over there in case you want to go check out my stash and projects. I'm hoping to get the rest of my growing stash there soon so that I can keep track of on going projects and future projects.

I did spin up some 100% tussah silk that I dyed in brown, navy and gold. This was a combo I really wanted to try in a fiber I really wanted to try. I'm not terribly pleased with either the colorway or the spinning but I think it will be nice once it's knitted up. There's only 180 yards so I don't know what it will become yet...maybe a long thin lacy scarf.

Here it is on the bobbins. I think I just need more practice on silk to "get it". I'm not sure how much twist to put in and I think my plying could've been a little tighter as well.

Here's another spinning project. This is some 100% Merino roving that my friend picked up for me at Black Sheep Gathering. Of course I handpainted it. This is the Seafoam colorway spun in fractal stripes. That is, I split the roving in half and spun as is in rally long color repeats. The other half (on the second bobbin) I further split the roving in thirds to make shorter color repeats. This has been plied (no pic yet) and I can't wait to see what the striping does once it's knitted. I'm thinking raglan top-down baby jacket.