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A rush of beanies

Three beanies and a cowl are some of my recent finished objects. All handspun using various textual techniques.

The cowl is a crepe yarn from hand dyed tops. The mauve and white started life as two normal singles then I added tufts of colour during plying and then I chain plied it all again.

The bluish beanie is a chained thick and thin.

The sunburned one is s cable yarn.

They're all lovely and soft as Australian superfine merino is and they've been wonderful to work with.

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