Category: yarn

  • a wee dent

    At Rhinebeck 2006, I picked up a Blue Moon Sheep 2 Shoe kit from the Fold’s booth – after the STR line had mostly dissipated! Why, of course it’s taken me this long to get to it. I’m trying to get more spinning time in, and not acquire any more fibre for awhile…at least until I’ve pared down what I have!

    I followed their instructions and split the top lengthwise into thirds, except for the fact that hey, wool doesn’t necessarily do what you want! So when I spun up the three singles, the colours really didn’t align at all.

    I did up some as the three-ply from three bobbins, but I wasn’t really into how the colours were falling.

    marled

    This smallish skein is 49 g and 215 yards – perfect fingering weight.

    So I decided to cut that smaller skein short and do a chain ply (navajo ply) of the rest of it. Technically, I still have quite a bit of singles yet. I’ll get to it sometime.

    navajo plied yarn

    So I got this big skein of 130 g and…at least 500 yards? I haven’t counted. But I do think this will stripe up really nicely when knit. It’s got some marled sections, of course, but mostly solid areas.

    I’m pretty happy with it – took long enough to spin up! I think I’m going to do some thicker stuff next.

    sheep 2 shoe closeup

  • boxing day sale madness

    I know you wanna see the goods! Sweater quantities of three yarns…

    colinette jitterbug

    Colinette Jitterbug, in a dusty pink colour.

    savannah DK

    Fiber Company Savannah DK, in a lovely green.

    malabrigo

    Malabrigo worsted in Paris Night, a lovely deep dark blue.

    And one skein each of STR lightweight and Handmaiden Casbah, both in springy greens.

    STR and casbah

    I think Casbah is my new favourite yarn, and I haven’t even knit with it yet! I bought a bunch before Christmas too, for a sweater, but I think this skein of green might become a scarfy thing.

    Also in yarn gluttony, I received as a gift three skeins of the Handmaiden Silk Cashmere I’ve had my eye on for awhile…

    3x cashmere and silk

    Funny thing is, the three skeins came from two different people, who don’t know each other – two from Alexis, and one from one of my cousins! Now I have enough to do something nice. I’m thinking maybe the Shetland Triangle, or something along those lines.

  • gifts given

    Did I say tomorrow? I meant in a few days. I did wear it for Christmas, sans buttons – I still need to sew those on!

    In the meanwhile, a few finished gifts that I made for others –

    The blanket out of Noro Iro turned out well. Sadly, I didn’t take a photo of the finished piece, but here’s one close to the end.

    iro blanket, more or less

    I crocheted between each strip, them crocheted the strips together and then around the edge of the blanket. It turned out really big – at least as wide as my double bed. It used 9 balls of Noro Iro (with 8 mm needles) and six balls of Blue Sky Alpacas Sportweight (reclaimed from a top-down sweater that I ripped out).

    I also made this cute bolero sweater for megan:

    megan's

    I used this pattern, which I found via Ravelry. I modified the sleeves so they wouldn’t be as wide, but they still turned out on the, let’s say, cozy size. I also had to completely change the sleeve cap as a result.

    The yarn is my handspun Romney (seen here), roving purchased at Rhinebeck 2006 – about 900 yards of 3-ply worsted weight. The purple at the collar is also handspun, from mixed batts – feels like it’s merino and silk, among other fibres.

    Boxing day sale tomorrow at lettuce knit – see you there!