Spinning group is at M’s today. I can’t decide whether to take the car and my wheel or go on the bike as the day is fine – I’m inclined to knit anyway, as I am just two repeats from the end of chart 2 on the Swallowtail. Yes, 25% done already – 12 repeats …
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Slowly…
My long 2mm DPNs arrived today and I transferred the doyley onto them and then managed a couple of rounds of knitting. 44 rows completed and 13.22% done. Can you tell what it is yet? The long needles are very unwieldy. They will take some getting used to. Also in today’s post: a large ball …
Currently…
Spinning: A merino roving from The Yarn Yard – my last in my stash, not counting a pencil roving from the same source. I’m considering knitting the pencil roving into a tea cosy if I can track the pattern down. I’ve not had much success thus far. Also spinning: carded Shetland natural fleece, in a …
Schizophrenia
Two things: 1) my roving seems to be suffering from schizophrenia. I have a yarn of two parts. Not at all sure what to do to rescue it – but parts of the singles are clear-cut shades-of-blue and the other parts are a subtly-hued blue-through-purple. Plans to chain ply are receding. Barber poles may be …
Limping
That wonderful man that I was wise enough to marry myself to… he’s got my PC up and running for me. I have only limited memory for the time being – it was a memory failure that took my machine down yesterday – but am back in the world again. I’m having to turn off …
Hobbled
My PC died today, while I was sitting in front of it, knitting. Just upped and died! Mingus is making some progress and I now have half of one leg done, a whole pattern repeat. I’m not sure that my handiwork is very good, though I can’t actually see any stitch errors – but as …