Mini skeins

It’s become very popular to knit or crochet blankets, amigurumi and other small or assembled items with small skeins of handspun or handpainted sock yarn as well as leftovers of commercial yarns. Especially the hexipuffs have been all the rage for quite a while! (I realize blankets as such have probably never been out of fashion, but so many cool patterns are emerging)

I normally don’t follow fashion much, but thought I’d join this madness and use it to my advantage: I’ll simply make my colour experiment swatches in the amount of mini skeins when I spin and dye, so that I actually have something useful and not just a piece of coloured string. And they make good travel knitting. I’m not making puffs, but rather like the hexagon shape, so that’s what I’m doing right now.

I’ve made a couple of niddy noddies from bits and pieces lying around the place, so that I don’t have to drag out my (also homemade) swift every time I want to wind a small skein.  Dowels, spheres from a hobby shop (leftover from spindle making), a broom handle and a thingy from an old wine rack. Voila presto! I never got round to glueing on the spheres because I wanted to make sure I had the correct circumference. And the rubber band colours help me keep track of counting anyway…

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Mini garn

Jeg er begyndt at lave mine farve/spindeprøver i mængder der passer sådan ca. med et par hexipuffer o.lign. sådan at jeg rent faktisk kan bruge dem til noget bagefter. Det er sikkert også udmærket til rejsestrikning forestiller jeg mig? Jeg synes det er en fin måde at få afprøvet alle mulige kombinationer, så det har jeg tænkt mig at gøre fremover i stedet for altid at spinde 50-100 g af hver slags garn og så ikke rigtig få det brugt. Jeg gider nok ikke rigtig lave puffer, men sekskanter synes jeg egentlig er flot, næsten cirkler. 😉

Mit haspetræ har jeg strikket sammen af dele fra en gammel vinreol og et par trækugler fra Panduro… De er ikke limet på endnu fordi jeg ville være sikker på omkredsen (garnet strækker sig jo når man vinder det på), deraf elastikkerne. Og så fandt jeg ud af, at farverne hjalp mig med at tælle omgange og ja, så kom jeg ikke længere!

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    1. I use about 10 meters for a flat. So I make them 22 meters (24 yds?) – I think that’s also enough to make an official puff, in case I decide on taking part in a swap at some point? The first ones I made were either very short, like 2 meters, or very large, ~100 meters, but I think I’ll settle for the 20-25 meter range, maybe 45. Haven’t really decided whether I want a blanket from all unique hexagons or if duplicates are allowed. 😉 For the handspun I do about 8-10 g

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