Over the last five years I’ve spun a lot of yarn. After I mastered spinning, I started dyeing and found that I enjoyed that even more than spinning. Here are a bunch of my handspun yarns. The first few were commercially dyed (or at least, not dyed by me). Please note that there are no blues in these skeins–the blues were set aside for a project and were not in the fiber room to take pictures of. I’ll get them later.

Make sure you scroll down to the last pic. It’s my finest yarn creation.

This is a three-ply (Navajo-plied) fingering yarn. I can’t remember what kind of fiber it is; some sort of wool I’m sure.

This is a silk/Merino blend. It’s two ply and extremely soft. I’m not thrilled about how the color turned out though.

This was both a spinning and dyeing experiment. For the Union Fair I needed a blend with a “not natural” fiber. This is wool with soy silk, spun in a single. I kettle dyed it after it was spun.

This is a two-ply Blue Faced Leicester yarn, fingering weight, hand dyed in the roving.

This is a bulky-spun, hot, hot, hot orange and yellow wool yarn.

This a special blend of BFL and nylon for socks. The nylon is for strength and was not dyed before being carded into the BFL. It’s a bit more than fingering; maybe sport weight.

I bought a whole bunch of spinning equipment online a few years ago. To pad it, the seller sent along a whole Border Leicester fleece and four pounds of roving. I tied up the roving and kettle dyed it and spun a bunch of extra bulky yarn. I’ve made a vest of out it and this is the last, unloved skein.

Here are four skeins of orange/cranberry BFL. You can see there were two dye batches. Some day I’ll take these four skeins, with a bunch of black or chocolate yarn and make something spectacular, but right now they are just too bright to be knit by themselves.

Novelty yarn is difficult to spin. All those nubs were a bear to spin in and it uses up singles extremely quickly. I should make a hat with this, but I’ve never got around to it.

This is a Merino/silk blend that I recarded, dyed and then spun a handful at a time. I Navajo-plied it in fingering weight. Hands down this is the most spectacular skein I’ve created. The two solid skeins were the leftovers, which I someday intend to use to set off the lovely variegated skein.