There are monthly challenges on Craftster.org, and this month the challenge was 'Just Thread It!' You could use any kind of thread and any methods you wanted. I've been wanting to try out Jacey Boggs Tornado yarn method in Spin Art for a while, and this was the perfect excuse to do it! I took a white pencil roving and 3 different crochet threads (one green, one variegated white/green/red, and one white with silver sparkle, but that sparkle doesn't show up in the picture) and went at it. It wasn't as 'plodding' as she said it would be. However I did find that if I worked with shorter chunks of the roving and joined them more often I could let out some of the extra twist that was accumulated before joining. And it's not quite as densely tornado as the one in her book, but I think it's a great try! I'll be doing this again in many colors, and hope to not run out of crochet cotton! Here it is on the bobbin. I forgot to take a skein picture, and can't find the left overs to take a picture of what it looks laid out.
I took the yarn and wrapped and wrapped a 14'' foam wreath form, and when that was done I added the bobbles with some straight pins and hot glue for security. I did the same with the foam tree forms as well.
I do believe they are going to look lovely together some where. I was at a Christmas Bazaar on Saturday and got a lot of positive feed back on these, and someone who wanted to think about taking it home, and she knows where to find me if she decides she definitely does want them.
Making these makes me excited for Christmas, I'm almost swelling with excitement this year and I'm not sure why!
~Kara
