Category: sweaters

  • debit card accident

    Whoops.

    Fleece Artist wool/silk roving and silk brick (the blue). YUM. There *cough* may also have been an incident involving eBay and three pounds of other fibre. Ahem.

    Since I’ve been spinning more lately, I don’t really have much to say about the knitting – I still haven’t finished the first Jaywalker (damn size 0’s), and I’ve been working on a boy sock as well. I managed to break a lantern moon on that one, dammit! I’ve also started another plain-ish sweater, which I’ll show as soon as there’s some progress! I think the next thing I’ll cast on is a shawl – Charlotte’s Web, probably.

    But look! What’s this?

    A finished Nordic Memories? Soon to be revealed!

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  • fibre-filled weekend

    This weekend I spent knitting, spinning, and dyeing (with a bit of school reading for good measure). When I wasn’t actively doing one of them, I was thinking about it! So results –

    In spinning, I did up some 2-ply merino in a pretty damn bright orange:

    Wound off, with a skein of a purpley-greeny merino in the middle. The big skein of orange is 280 yards, the small one 140 yards, and the purple one is 150 yards. I *think* I’m going to open up an etsy shop for my handspuns soon (that is, if I can stand to part with them) so most of my spinning in the next while will be for that, I think.

    I also carded for the first time, some silk noil that I got at lettuce knit. It’s got all kinds of funky crap in it. I tried blending it with some blue merino.

    It was…interesting. I made some funky-looking rolags to try spinning.

    In knitting, I finished the front of Nordic Memories! Everything’s in for a soak now. Then comes the sewing up and the neckband…I’m hoping to get this one done soon, soon.

    Now I’m sort of in knitting limbo – what do I knit next? I think I’ll start another shawl, and some kind of fairly plain pullover, maybe a raglan with cables on the sleeves. Or maybe this is my chance to try out the EZ seamless saddle shoulder! I also need to figure out what the hell to do for the Knitting Olympics!

    And finally in dyeing, with no photos – I’ve been dyeing up some more silk hankies for lettuce knit, and having a lot of fun. Going much quicker this time around, I think.

  • breather

    Whew. I just wrote a test that’s been hanging over my head since before Christmas! Now I feel like I have time to knit and spin and all those good things…before I need to seriously get back into new term work. D’oh.

    On the weekend though, while I was studying, I also managed to dye up a bunch of roving:

    The colours are a bit washed out here, but you get the idea – I did two pounds and a quarter in 4 oz lots. I’m trying to make a dent in my massive merino stash so I can order more wool sometime ;) I want to do some bigger dyelots as well, but not until I actually have a project (and therefore amount of wool needed) in mind. These are just for something different from all the skinny white stuff I’ve been spinning! No picture at the moment, but I’m spinning up skinny (laceweight to fingering) merino to do a three-ply for a sweater-type project. 1.5 bobbins into the first batch, and it’s taken me awhile because I don’t have much time fore spinning! I should make a point of doing it more.

    Anyway, knitting – I’ve been working on Nordic Memories. I’m done both sleeves, am up to the armhole shaping of the back, and am done the ribbing of the front (not pictured, as I just knit that today).

    Thank you all for your lovely comments on my shawl!