I’ve frogged the Fountain Hat. I spent an inordinate amount of time tinking this thing every couple of rows or so. The tension is all wrong. The needle size is wrong. And it is impossible to read the knitting and find the errors easily. So, a two-stick attempt next. Friday Spin Three of us met …
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Antidote FO
I made a complete hash of the photography and need to re-do it, but will wait for a better lit day to do so. Antidote FOs. I would knit this scarf again, but certainly not in this yarn. Something silky, perhaps.
Fire Stash
The Fire stash is something of an embarrassment (Fire runs February/March – so I am on a losing streak here). Worse still, this isn’t all of it – I forgot to include some WIP yarns Fire: Red, Orange, Pink In addition to this little lot, I have the Violet Green Stroud Supersock in Red Hot …
Air Stash
Hardly worth calling a stash! Air: White, Grey, Yellow 300 grammes of BFL commercially spun 4ply yarn, some alpaca fibre to spin (can’t wait!), and a somewhat desperate inclusion of two yarns from a Colinette grab bag (neither of which is honestly grey) – and no yellow in the house at all. I daresay the …
Earth Stash
The group that I would have expected to be the largest is actually rather moderate. Earth: Green, Brown, Metallics No metallics at all (not my thing, when it comes to knitting). The silk from Water could just as easily go here, of course (and may yet), as could the Orkney Angora lambswool mix and my …
Water Stash
I reorganised my spinning fibre and my yarns into colour groups according to the PS3 Elements colour groups. It wasn’t easy, there are some overlaps as I like certain colour mixes, such as blue and green together and purple with almost anything… This is Water: Blue, Purple, Black I had two stabs at it. Seems …