thing-a-day 2010 - The yearly creative sprint, 4th edition
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Day Twenty-One - Spinning

Today I spun for a couple hours. I've been working on this super thin yarn that will be plyed with another to make a crazy sock yarn. There are a total of 17 different colors and they are all a really nice merino wool.

I posted a animated gif file I made while spinning earlier this month, but you really can't see much of a dent on the two hours more I've added. It's so thin that it just doesn't add up quickly.

The colors may not look that great right now, but once plyed, the finished product will look closer to this other yarn (below) that I spun, only all of that was dyed with kool-aid and it's a much chunkier yarn.

-Robyn

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Day Three - Animated gif

I've been working on this way longer than I should have, and the result is not quite the image I had envisioned, but I am still pretty proud of myself.

I have been spinning some very fine/thin wool to make a sock yarn which I will knit up to make a pair of socks. I thought it would be pretty cool to make an animated gif of myself spinning yarn. I borrowed Matt's camera which has a program on it that allows you to set increments of pictures taken for a given duration. I started with a picture every second but that was way too much, so I set it for every 5 seconds. I spun for over 300 pictures and then using photoshop and imageready I put the images together for the result below. I ended up only using the first 75 pictures because it was taking so long and our "TAD"s shouldn't become a chore. I also made it only 100 pixels wide, but I wish it had been a bit larger.

I have only made a couple basic animated banner ad gifs in the past. I don't know a ton and have taught myself how to do this, so, no help from the computer geek boyfriend :)

-Robyn

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