Outtakes

Wash with similar colors!

In a shop I found gorgeous green and golden sari fabric. I planned on spinning an Indian inspired yarn from expensive mulberry silk and handdyed tussah silk, with spun-in fabric stripes. I even finally got the tiny bells. Everthing went good first.

I spun the yarn and included some of the fabric. I inteded to knit a scarf from the yarn and add the other fabric stripes as fringes. The tiny bells would have been included later on.

But after washing the yarn I had a bad surprise: the sari fabric was bleeding out and dyed the white mulberry silk green. I still started the scarf but then I gave up. Maybe I still can use the parts for something else. But from now on I'll wash the fabric first.

Blue Sheep?

For the "Flock of Sheep" yarn I used black and white felted fiber balls which I made in the evening and already spun them in. The next morning I realized, that the black balls were in reality dark blue, which I hadn't realized in the weak lamp light.
Luckily I hadn't yet finished the yarn and could easily remove the already spun blue sheep and replace them by black ones...