Sun 28 Sep 2014
This has been a quiet week, knit-wise. Not a whole lot that’s new and exciting going on.
I snipped a couple of stitches and knit an extra inch or so onto the arms of my Seafoam sweater.
They sat just a little higher than I’d like all last season, so I figured I might as well fix that before the wool-wearing begins again.
I started working on a new scarf in another mindless lace (two row pattern, and they only differ by a stitch).
I’m not sure that I love how the color change is playing with the lace pattern; it actually shows up a lot more in the photo than it does in real life. I’m hoping that blocking will help with that, though. I do love the color, which is slightly more red and less purple than is shown in the photo.
And I’m doing some spinning.
This spinning is a bit unusual in that I have a lot of wool to get through and no specific project in mind. It’s the same shetland lambswool that I used for the Embroidered sweater. I bought several pounds of it at Green Castle in 2012, with the intention of knitting one plain oatmeal-colored sweater (check) and one colorwork sweater. I think I have 4 or 5 different colors in the closet, and it’s some of the only wool in the house not in a plastic bin (the way the balls of roving are wound makes it hard to fit). Since I liked the yarn weight that I used for the embroidered sweater, I decided to just spin the rest of it up at the same weight; a slightly heavy fingering weight 2-ply. It will be easier to store, and then when I’m ready to knit it will be all ready to go. In the meantime, it’s a nice mindless evening project, and there’s plenty of wool left to go!
Anything exciting on your needles?
Every time you wear that sweater, you are going to be happy for those longer sleeves. Well done!
The scarf looks rich. Very lovely.
And the spinning, ah, I appreciate the rationale and the beauty of a simple creamy Shetland singles.