Stash Flash

A selected part of the stash.


This is three boxes (not all full) of my handspun yarn. This does not actually include all the handspun yarn in the house, as the undyed stuff is elsewhere. You can see my problem? There are acid-dyed variegated yarns in here, just one skein usually of each, which do not match anything else. Then there are the plant dyed yarns, of a host of different thicknesses. Because bright yellow is the easiest and most obtainable plant dye on my holiday I have more than I would wish for – yellow is not my colour. But I realise it does lift all the others and is usually the one which non-fibre friendly folk notice because it is so bright. And lastly there are some pretty chunky skeins from my spinning thick days, which will not felt as I have tried. I need another box for dyed stuff which is not handspun, and there is already an overflowing box of white yarn to dye by whatever method.

Saturday socks

And here we have three pairs of socks (I may only be showing one, but believe me there are two of each). The blue ones were finished a while back but it was time to picture them before they get wrapped up to give to my mum for Christmas. They’re made from my handspun blue faced Leicester wool which was dyed in the skein. Mum’s got larger feet than me (most people have) which is why they don’t fit me.



The pink and green ones are left over commercial yarn that I dyed for our Guild exhibition. These could have done with a much tighter knit. I’m really not sure why I knitted them on 13s, but now they are done I will not make that mistake again. It may be because I have a huge number of number 13s as I have randomly bought all the DPNs I could at charity shops over the years. The colouring meant I went for my first short row heel. I found the instructions in Woolcraft which my grandma probably bought in the 1950s

The cream ones also were finished an age ago. The pattern is from the Spin Off Socks special. These are obviously for someone with much bigger feet than me. I have a pair I made for me and I wear them as slippers. Handspun unknown fleece with a lovely lustre.

It’s a gorgeously sunny day here, there’s bread baking the oven, yarn dyeing in pots and Christmas cards to post.