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Today’s stash addition

Mistake!

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Head:wall proximity problem. I took this progress photo and only then noticed the mistake I made about 12″ ago.
This won’t be the item I enter in the Show this year then. On the bright side, it probably wouldn’t have been anyway. There’s that Leicester Blue Face Longwool to knit up yet.
Ugh.
Long view

I rather like the Steampunk Keyboard Mod
I am not so certain about the monitor conversion!
But I love the altoid tins and the trilobyte is awesome.
…and I think that I can wind up Mr L to let me have a go at this in his garage…

So, there I was - just browsing for a link to show the colours of my stash off, and I kind of accidentally bought two skeins of hand dyed sock wool… it was the lure of free postage. I couldn’t just stop at the special offer, could I? So it’s two skeins and a set of bamboo [...]

The Spinning Ladies of Sanday now number seven. Thankfully, only four of us in my little sitting room today - so there is cake left for Mr L (and he earned it today.)
I made progress! Things went so much better than last week, I am pleased to say.
After lunch I thought that I had [...]

My first three skeins of handspun are now washed and balled and ready to knit.

I am really pleased with these - what an achievement! and the yarn is so soft and fluffy now that it is washed. I love the variation in texture and colour and the way that the Jacob marls into wonderful tweedy [...]

East 05 June, 2007: Kauni, originally uploaded by Windows Three.

Something new for the stash. I am hoping to turn this into a shawl, by August. Hah!

This is a rainbow dyed Shetland wool from Denmark, by Kauni and it came from Astrid’s Dutch Obssessions with a free shawl pattern thrown in.

I frogged my Cats Paw scarf.

About 18″ long when I took the needles up again today.
I had got hold of Liz Lovick’s booklets on Shetland Lace knitting and discovered that when she says Yarn Over, she doesn’t mean what I knew as Yarn Over. She does what I know as a Yarn Forward. I [...]

I sent for some Surina wooden needles and the cats paw scarf is coming along much better now. I did several pattern repeats yesterday. It isn’t the best knitting I ever did, but I really am very rusty! At least I now consistently have 34 stitches remaining at the end of each row and I [...]