Wool

After a very busy weekend in which I celebrated my 55th birthday I will share some things I made in the last months. I like to create all kind of things, and these are of the woolen kind. In the summer I dyed some merino wool, and in the last months I spinned it into yarn.

The middle one was a light grey merino before I dyed it, so the colours are rather dark. The 3 skeins exist of a 3 ply yarn, which in this case means I Navajo plied the yarn I spinned, to hold the colours together. The thickness will be for knitting on needles 3 1/2 or 4, (European size) I think . I don't know yet what I will make of it.
The skeins weight about 150 grams.

And than, underneath the skeins lies the blanket I crocheted in october. Boy, I did crochet a lot!!

I used a design  made by Drops, which I already used for making shawls with their sockwool Delight, which comes in nice colours. But this time I didn't want to think, just crochet, and I made this from a rather thin wool which I bought some years ago in England. It measures 1.80 x 1.30, a nice blanket to crawl in on the bench when it's cold outside. I used crochet needle 3.

And this is my spinning wheel, a majacraft with double threadle. A pleasure to spin on. On the moment I'm spinning with this colour...

 Very summery colours, and I think I will navajo ply it again, I like to ply this way and I like the result.
Have a nice week.