Yarn!

Well, canning season has begun.  This weekend we made: applesauce, apple butter, apple cake, apple pie, apple cobbler, froze several jars of peaches, and (finally, because I was tired and just wanted the fruit done): apple-peach-pear jam.  The apple-peach-pear jam is very red and tastes rather sweet, even though I used less sugar and more fruit than was called for.  We're calling it "candy jam."  The final batch is cooking right now; I will put pictures up later.

So, as I am waiting for my jam to finish up, I decided to try to take some artsy pictures of the yarn I've been working on.  First is a yellow corriedale with some flowers spun in.  Straight yellow (not pictured) was a little too much for me; I think the flowers make a nice addition.

Next I mixed the yellow corriedale with some merino to break up the yellow a bit.  It makes a much softer yellow color:

 



 Below is a mix my daughter came up with.  We dyed some of our mohair into rainbow strips, and then I plyed the dyed rainbow with grey mohair and flowers. 

 

 

 

And here's the rainbow mohair again, this time plyed with black mohair.  Personally, I like this one better than the rainbow/grey combination.