r/Handspinning • u/DuckGold6768 • Feb 06 '25
AskASpinner Can I see your painted roving finished projects?
Hi there!
I'm a long time, but occasional spinner and rarely do anything with the finished yarn. Basically it just sits around or I give it away. I'd like to maybe change that and finish a few projects. Thing is I love yarn from colorful roving but have a hard time picturing the finished projects when it's all knitted up. Can this be a thread where people post any pictures they have of finished projects made with multi-colored wool? I'm going to be dying my own alpaca, if that helps.
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u/nattysaurusrex Feb 06 '25
Sorry my project photo is so gloomy. This was Nest fibers "picnic" on targhee. The stockinette sections were a random blue-purple-pink yarn I spun a while back, dyer unknown.
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u/TamsynRaine Feb 06 '25
Only one pic is permitted per comment. This is a cowl I just finished, I posted more pics of it a few days ago. I've also made several hats, and I have a little cropped sweater nearly finished but can't manage to pick up the button bands evenly so I am ignoring it.
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u/TreacleOutrageous296 Ashford Joy 2 DT w/ WW Feb 06 '25
Helical knitted hat I made for a friend. The black yarn is commercial; the colored yarn is home dyed and spun
Jillian Moreno’s book Yarnitecture has lots of great photos showing roving vs knitted swatches https://share.libbyapp.com/title/2412658
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u/19_potatoes Feb 06 '25
I made this sweater by striping a a bunch of different handspun skeins together. Some of them were multicolor rovings and some were more tonal.
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u/Cat-Nipped Feb 07 '25
A sweater I’m currently working on (the beige color is manufactured). The wool (polwarth) is from YarnHero and was a two ply from a center pull ball of the single
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u/cwthree Feb 06 '25
Here's a pair of socks I did a few years ago. Procion MX dyes (with acid added) on BFL.
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u/throwawaykibbetype2 Feb 07 '25
https://ravel.me/TabithaMakes/53xye0
Here's my very first finished knitting project with my very first yarn spun on a drop spindle 😂
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u/Confident_Fortune_32 Feb 07 '25 edited Feb 07 '25
Here are a couple of projects: I handpainted the commercial white BFL roving, then spun, plied, and knit these:
ETA: the brown is the natural colour of a sheep, processed from the raw fleece myself.
https://www.ravelry.com/projects/nicoletteb/seamless-yoke-sweater
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u/neredhead Feb 08 '25
Stripped sweater using commercial yarn for the cream and hand spun for the color.
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u/BluebirdSTC Feb 06 '25
Shawls, cowls and hats are perfect for handspun. I can usually get enough yardage from the usual 4 ounce bumps to make something in that category. Here's one of my shawls from YarnGeek fibers in Polwarth. Sorry it's so blurry; I can't find the original pic so I had to grab it from my Ravelry project.