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Monday, March 9, 2015

Spinning to Match Reclaimed Yarn

One of the swatches mentioned in the February 23 post has emerged as a sweater design. Unfortunately, there isn't enough of the light green yarn (reclaimed by unraveling a Goodwill sweater) to complete the project. Some dyed batts, a drum carder (for blending two shades of yellow-green), a spinning wheel, and voila, I have yarn to match the unraveled lot.

Left to right are:  unraveled yarn, matching handspun (made today), sweater sleeve, and sweater back

Two shades of dyed fleece were blended to make yarn on lower right. In upper right:  reclaimed yarn to match