Category: yarn

  • a long Frolic

    Whew. The Knitter’s Frolic was great – besides all the yarn and fibre, it was just great to be in that environment, around all the gorgeous things and other obsessed people! Got a tea or coffee? This might be a bit long.

    The only yarn I bought – six skeins of Shelridge Farm W4, in Mulberry. Despite any weird bias problems, I still do love it. Hopefully this batch will have better sweater mojo than the last batch – which reminds me, I stil have two sleeves to reknit. Oy.

    The rest was alllll spinning fibre. Mostly from The Black Lamb. I’m SO going to have to get out there one of these days.

    The two bags on the left are pindrafted merino/silk, upper right is lambswool/angora, bottom right is superwash merino.

    Dyed South African top.

    450 g (a pound) of oatmeal merino. I’m thinking…sweater yarn!

    A couple of corriedale batts. I should’ve bought more.

    Oooooh.

    Alpaca – on the left, pindrafted baby alpaca in three colours; on the right, carded chocolate brown alpaca.

    That’s everything! I reorganized my fibre stash, and whoa, it’s getting a bit big. I can’t wait to spin all this stuff up! And like I said, I just loved wandering around, checking everything out. I was very tempted by bags of Jo Sharp at GoodBuyYarn, but it was packaged in bags costing $145 – just couldn’t justify spending that much on top of everything I bought! If this is the Frolic, Rhinebeck is going to be….interesting.

    I’d better start saving now.

  • tweedy

    Indecision about projects – what do I knit next? What do I do with the yarn I want to knit?

    Silky wool/tweed sweater in yet another incarnation – I didn’t rip out the hem (that was a lot of work!) but I took out the red stripe and am planning on just doing a grey body and red sleeves. Hopefully I’ll have enough of the grey! It’s going pretty quickly now though, and is a nice plain knit that I’m rather enjoying. Until I have to decide about the shaping, of course.

    I also swatched some of the Rowanspun 4ply I bought from elann awhile back. This is double stranded on 4.5 mm.

    I’m getting a touch less than 20 stitches per 10 cm, and I’ve decided to do a simple jacket, based on the Indian Summer Jacket from Interweave (scroll down a bit). No bells and whistles, just plain. With hook and eye tape for the closure, which I think will be pretty cool.

    I picked up the tape today at Fabricland, as well a new rotary cutting mat and a bunch of buttons, all at 40% off. Buttons for dreamcatcher? Check! Sewed them on? Not so much. But soon.

  • button, button

    So I hit up Courage My Love, THE wicked best place to get buttons, and I bought buttons. Alas, not checking button hole size before buying buttons results in too-big buttons. So I’ll have to get some new ones, but I don’t really forsee getting back down there for awhile (and Friday I’m working and probably won’t be able to get away during their working hours). I’ll check Fabricland tomorrow (which is near me) and maybe the store on the corner near lettuce on Friday.

    In the meanwhile, here’s a blocking shot. I’ve tried it on and the fit is perfect! And the sleeves caps fit too, hooray.

    New project: Vintage Pink Cardigan, from an old Interweave. Mine’s blue, although not quite as eye-searing as in the photo (sunlight, y’know). Rowan wool cotton, bought from Jannette on eBay. Lovely stuff. First sleeve is now done.

    New yarn: pink with sparklies!

    I’m trying to blog really fast. More tomorrow!