I tried another photo session today. I wanted to get decent snaps of my felt, and also a FO shot of the Noro Hat – plus a quick snap of a newly cast on project. I was surprised (why? I shouldn’t have been) when I picked up the Noro Hat (should I call it a …
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Groovy, baby
Knitting this hat for Mr L is proving to be deeply satisfactory. I love the fact that I can now call a yarn into being from almost nowhere at all in just a day or two. That’s great. Even better is the fact that it now looks like proper yarn – it’s properly plyed now, …
Oh, bum
I finished the Torch Island spinning and got a total of 186 yards of 3 ply, approx aran weight. Mr L liked it, so it is to be a hat for him. I began a Noro Hat this afternoon. Halfway up the body, I realise that I am going to be short of yarn. Choices: …
Photo call
My new drop spindle, with quartz whorl, and the soy silk I received as a gift last year. It is going to take me months, I think! But what a joyous colour that fibre is. And the Torch Island spinning. One skein and remaining fibre – except that I have spun half a bobbin this …
So-so-sew
A lengthy puzzle session in bed last night resulted in no progress on either remaining puzzle but gave plenty of mindless knitting opportunity – and Kenaz is off the needles. Is Kenaz completed? I think maybe not. Despite careful weighing and calculating, I have a quantity of yarn remaining. I can now knit a gusset …
Torchy
Torchy, Torchy, the battery boy…. Remember him? 🙂 This afternoon I made inroads on the Torch Island roving. I began to worry about it as I spun it (span it?). The colours are quite high contrast really (chocolate brown, magenta, tangerine) and the single was well marled. Plying it might make it very muddy and …