Scarf for Carol

I wanted to knit one of my long time friends, Carol a scarf, as she lives in Melbourne, Vic. Aust. and it has long cold winters.
I asked her what she would like and she said something "bright"
I hope she likes it and as she wears a black coat should brighten up her day and keep her warm during those cold mornings and night coming and going to work.

For this scarf I used hand dyed merino fleece and randomly spun up different colours so that I would get the stripe effect without having to joint in so many different ends, it is reasonably long so she can wear it different styles.

My Drum Carder With Spun Yarn

Large drum carder






Mixture of pre dyed fleece
carded and then spun at random
Hanging out to dry.
"click on to see larger scale"

I have only just purchased this Larger size Drum Carded after selling my smaller drum carder.

Now I can fit more on it width wide. It was fun mixing the coloured fleece, that have been left over from my felting garments and accessories. It was a surprise to see how they finally ended up when spun up. This is the best time to add your metalic threads and colour plying yarns from your stash. If you microwave metalic thead when using the dyeing process, it is likely to loose its gold or silver to end up just looking clear. After being spun I wash and then rinse thoroughly, spin dry then dry in the shade. I find these yarns make lovely individual scarves on chunky needles with tassles. Look for these shortly at the Belligen Market.