Category: yarn

Ahhh. I love spring.

Since my camera’s charging at the moment, no photos today – I guess you’ll just have to use your imagination! Actually, wait, maybe I *do* have a photo….oh, here it is.

New project #1 – a bottom-up raglan, striped, in Lavold Silky Wool and Tweed. I love the fabric, but meh. Not very exciting. Maybe…three quarter sleeves, v-neck. Something like that.

Dreamcatcher is blocking! It was a bit of a mess before blocking (all curly and small) but now it looks awesome. A button search is lined up for tomorrow. Plus, after the sleeve cap Disaster that was Cable/Rib, it’s reassuring to know that I can actually set in a sleeve and have it work. Which is good, since a couple of the projects I’m planning have set in sleeves.

What else…I’ve been slacking off school (exams in two weeks? pshaw, that’s ages from now), and dyeing up a storm for myself and for the spindle class I’m teaching this Friday and next at lettuce knit – in town and wanna try your hand at making yarn? There are a couple spaces left, just give us a ring!

Denny gave me a handfull of sparkly stuff to spin, and although you probably have noticed I’m not really the bling type, I can’t wait to ply it into some pink merino I’m working on right now.

Let’s hope tomorrow’s button jaunt is successful, so I can show you all a new and very cool sweater!

Hi. Okay, so the Big Paper is in, and I’ll be back to more regular posting, at least until my finals are closer! First up, some results from my survey – those of you not really interested, feel free to scroll down to some close-to-completed projects!

Of 187 responses that I received, 116 were from Canadians, 67 were Americans, and 4 were other – this is the country of raising from 8-18. Remember the photo of the people waiting? Among the Canadians, 33% responded with some form of ‘line’, 47% with some form of “lineup”, 5% said queue, and the rest were others. Among the Americans, 70% said “line”, 20% said “waiting” or “standing” in line, and the rest were other.

In the self-rating of use of terms, over 94% of the Americans chose “line” always or often, while 62% of the Canadians said they used “line” always or often, and 63% said they use “lineup” always or often as well. So – it’s pretty obvious that in Canada, one can say they were in a couple of “lineups” today and not mean they were at the police station a lot, while Americans don’t. This is also reflected in some dictionaries (I looked at quite a few, but definitely not an exhaustive amount) – a few American dictionaries had only definitions relating to police investigations or sports (baseball lineup) while Canadian dictionaries also defined “lineup” as being just a row of people, or a queue. So there you have it!

The knitting! Cable/rib, with new sleeve caps in, collar on, toggles laid out (but the attachments aren’t done), blocking. Only the top part, which is why it’s a different colour than the bottom half of the sweater!

And I finished the body of Dreamcatcher earlier this week, then did the medallion part at SnB on Wednesday night. After one incident of screwup-age, it went super quickly. Tends to do that when you’re decreasing by half every other round or so!

I think it looks awesome! It’s all unblocked and raggedy looking here of course, but with some lovin’ I’m sure it’s look faboo.

So just a little sewing up and finishing to do (Dreamcatcher seems to have a lot of ends) and I’ll have not one but TWO new sweaters! And I actually need them – I keep thinking I want to wear a cardigan, then realize I don’t really have any appropriate spring-ish ones.

What’s next? More sweaters, obviously. Some stockinette…to go with the studying. Hmm.

Yup.

I’ve completed the medallion shaping on the back of Dreamcatcher, and just have some neck decreases and work evens to finish! Then it’s onto the fun part – the innards of the dreamcatcher.

Meanwhile, I’m trying to work on my paper and keep getting distracted. Evidence:

Top: Knitpicks Sock Garden in “Zinnia”, bottom: handspun.

Still just working away, really, haven’t had time to start any new projects (although I want to!) – I did reknit the sleeve cap on cable/rib, and it looks much better. Still need to do the second one….Actually, now that I think about it, I should go rip that one. Ah, procrastination.

megan gave me an awesome present – a skein of Socks that Rock, in the “Prove it all night” colourway. Brighter than it looks here; recently seen over at grumperina’s. Yay!