Category: knitting

  • a spot o’ spinning ‘n’ knittin’

    I’ve only a bit of business to report today – seems the last couple days have gotten away from me! Above is my “in progress” spinning basket. On the left is some beauuuuutiful fleece artist wool/silk, one bobbin done (will be 2ply); on the right is some of my dyed bfl, one bobbin done (also 2ply). After I’m done these I think I’ll try to finish up the soy silk/wool that I was working on before, and then back to more bfl…and merino…and I need to find some time to dye some more merino. Hm. Big heap of spinning!

    In knitting, I’m still working on the back of the cable/rib. Bor-ing, but it’s going fairly fast. I should block the finished sleeves now so I don’t have to do it later! Oh, and I finally blocked the black vneck, so photos of that should be up soon. I feel like I’m stagnating on the knitting projects lately, it’s not that I’m not inspired, but there is the push of schoolwork to get in the way.

    Speaking of which, check back later today (or check your bloglines) and I’ll have something up that I need your collective help with!

  • sleeve island

    The Cable/Rib sleeves may be done, but my stay is just getting started – I’m planning to start the sleeves of one (or two) new sweaters really soon. Tomorrow, maybe.

    I should have made the sleeves a bit narrower, but oh well. I finished each sleeve with just a few yards (only 2 in the case of one of them sleeves!) left in the skein that was allotted to each sleeve. I’m almost done the second front, and it looks like I’ll have just enough yarn. We’ll have to see, though – this is kinda exciting, the prospect of running out of yarn. I’ve still got the back to do; I’m planning on taking out a few stitches and not blocking the fronts as severely, for a slightly smaller sweater.

    I’ve also been dyeing up a storm of blueface leicester – lots of fun colours to spin up soon.

  • hmmmmm.

    So for some plain stockinette, I started a sleeve of the Cable/Rib sweater.

    Those of you with sharp eyes may be able to see a problem (although it’s not really all that clear)…

    This photo was taken with the ribbing aligned with the edge of my desk and the bottom of the frame. See how the stockinette veers off to the left? The yarn is overspun enough that I’m getting biasing! Argh, argh. I started the other sleeve with another ball, to see if it was just this one, but it’s twisty too. And I tried knitting a few rows from the other end of the ball, as per megan h.’s suggestion, but that didn’t do anything either.

    And I don’t want to scrap the project or anything. I think I’ll press on with this sleeve and see what I can get out of the blocking.

    But still.

    P.S. Yarn is Shelridge Farms W4, which was looking to be a perfect yarn until this!