Every year at work there is an e-bay style auction on the intranet to raise money for the United Way. People are encouraged to get creative and donate unique goods and services, so I spun some yarn.
This is 75% superwash merino/ 25% nylon bare stroll roving from knitpicks. In the end there are 260 yards with a wpi of 10 (yes, I checked!!). I was going for a tiger theme (one of our company's mascots), which is also fitting for fall crafting. The original pre spinning dye-job looked like cat vomit and I was so tragically disheartened I almost chucked it. Luckily, it is nicer spun up and I dyed it again post ply so there will be stripes of black superimposed over the barberpole striping in the orange sections. It was kind of a stripes within stripes Inception-y thing.
I hope people appreciate my offering. In the past I have ended up buying back my donated items.
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Sunday, September 18, 2011
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