Fiber Follies

Of course I still cannot assign a proper category to my posts. I tried the “solutions” found in WordPress forums but they don’t work. sigh. So, we’ll just have to wing it.

I am still knitting! I know I rarely mention it. But so many keen things happen every day that I just forget. And I am horrendously slow anyway. I can start a project and finish it weeks later. Or months. Or years. Okay? That’s why so little knitting mentioned here. I am nearly finished with Oat Couture’s pattern for the Entrelac Purse. It’s a great pattern which perfectly shows off the Noro silk Garden I bought on sale two years ago. I started the purse last winter, made a mistake, and it sat in a closet until six or seven weeks ago when I decided to try and finish off a few WIPs. I unravelled it and began a-fresh. Pictures once finished. It’s very very pretty. I’m also working on a Marsan Watchcap to match a neck-warmer made from handspun that Bob gave me a few years ago. They’ll be nice toasty accessories next winter. I don’t limit my knitting to seasons, as slow as I am it’s just good to get in a row or even a few stitches on the fly and not worry about knitting only with cotton or linen in summer and wools in winter. That makes no sense anyway, I live in a part of the world where heating and air conditioning can keep a body at the same temperature year-round. In my case, shivering. Manalive people here like to keep things cold. Brrr. So, anyway, I am still a knitter.

I am spinning too, but again I am painfully slow. I love spinning. But there is little free time. On one wheel I am working up 50g of bottle-green merino to ply with salmon and light green merino. I may put up a 50 g bobbin of white merino too, since I like knitting a 4 ply wool and think it’d be pretty. On the other wheel I’m suffering through a cotton/lyocell/flax blend. It’s a royal pain but the yarn on the bobbin is so soft! It’s for a baby gift, my neice has produced a darling little man-child and I want to send something made just for him. I’ll make a 3-ply of the cotton/lyocell/flax and cotton and silk. Yes I said silk. Silk is lovely and will give a touch of strength to the yarn, sheen too. Cotton-I cheated-I bought cotton crochet thread to use for that ply. This boy is a Texas hothouse child so no wool heading his way. Precious Child plans to crochet booties for him from the yarn which I hope to finish before he weds and produces progeny of his own.

Then I’ll get back to the Eternal Cardigan Project and spin up whatever I want on the spare wheel. I’m half way through the wools for the ECP so the end does indeed approach.