Category: spinning

  • found!

    The cormo made it home safe and sound, after a slight detour to lettuce knit.

    I ran out of yarn while working on my wrappy sweater today at the store (although it can’t really be called a wrappy sweater anymore, because I changed my mind), so I started something new, with the Koigu that I bought yesterday…this skirt from the fall issue of Vogue Knitting!

    Of course, I’m toning it down a bit – I’m only doing three tiers of hexagons; all my hexagons shall be the same colourway, although I’m sure they’ll pattern differently; my in-between-tier colour will be dark brown Louet merino, to match the brown in the koigu. That hasn’t been ordered or anything yet, but it will be…sometime.

    But the ends, dear god the ENDS!

    Every hexagon has about 15 ends! I’m going to try something with knitting them in, but it’s difficult because they’re all pick up tails/cast off tails. There are 27 hexgons total, with the second and third tier ones being progressively bigger. The hexagon is pretty quick to knit, so this might actually be a fairly fast project.

    I also put in some time on Cloud, and I’m into the body increases:

    You know, on my way home I was thinking about how I should do my modelled shots of Cozy, but then…I just didn’t do them. I think I need some during-the-day time when I’m at home to do it, and I’m not sure when that’ll be. This week though, I promise!

  • my little cabbage

    I finished up the Mon Petit Chou hipsters, and they are so cute!

    You can probably see some clear elastic sticking out near the top, I haven’t quite figured out how to secure that in yet. I laced up the sides with the same yarn. Here’s a modelled (and cropped) shot:

    Mon Petit Chou
    Pattern: from knitty
    Yarn: Elann Esprit in “Ruby”, 2 balls
    Needles: Denise US 6
    Started: September 2, 2005
    Finished: September 4, 2005

    I also managed to finally finish a go with the flow sock. I think the next one will be faster (I hope).

    The colour’s very accurate in that picture – and as you can see, my light tent technique really does consist of me just sticking my project under my topsheet.

    I’ve been spending some quality time with my wonderful swift and winder, preparing for some new projects.

    Check out that stack of handspun goodness on the right! That’s for a shawl – there’s going to be another colour as well, but that one’s still drying. In the middle are some lorna’s laces sock, for the second go with the flow sock and some sort of knee sock, probably. On the left is a stack of Elann Highland Chunky that’s been knit twice and is still holding up – I’m planning on doing the “Urban Aran” from Patons. I’ve already started once, but then I realized that I was way off on the sizing and ripped it out. I hope it’ll work out this time.

    One last thing – my cheap retractable tape measure finally died, and I killed it. I pulled it out too far/too fast when trying to measure Cozy, and something broke inside. I need a new one.

  • some dem spinning

    I finished the Snap Cardi, although it needs a blocking and some snap tape:

    Snap Cardigan
    knit for lettuce knit, with pattern and yarn available there.
    Pattern: by Blue Sky Alpacas
    Yarn: Blue Sky Cotton, dark blue, 7 skeins
    Needles: Denise US7
    Started: August 18, 2005
    Finished: September 1, 2005

    A cinch to knit, and just gorgeous yarn – but maybe now I can finally get to some fall knits for me! Like this:

    …which will be knit in Knitpicks Shine.

    In the meanwhile, I’ve done a little bit of spinning! Now, I don’t know where I got the link to this article – I know it was a knit blog, and it was a photo of handspun, and the yarn was burgundy. Any ideas? Anyway, the article is about light tents, in case you don’t want to click, and WOW. It makes such a difference. I’m just sticking my head under my bedsheet (just with ambient sunlight for these, not more light under the tent), but it works really well.

    This is 208 yards of 2-ply merino – I bought the roving dyed, off ebay. I don’t know what to call it though – any ideas?

    Fabulous suggestion, Liz – “Carnival” it is!

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