single minded knitting focus
Each Wednesday, I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
Single minded knitting focus, gets pretty boring after awhile.
My winter coat is all I’m working on.
Some other ideas are brewing in the background, but as far as crafting goes, this is it. No spinning. No sewing. No other knitting.
I put the body together, have picked up for the sleeves, and am halfway through sleeve number 1. This means it’s absolutely no-longer a portable knitting project, and while I knit, it’s doing double duty as a blanket.
My plan is to close up part of the side-seams & underarm seams, once I get both sleeves halfway knit. I’m doing this so I can get a better understanding of the proportions of the sweater/coat.
I’ll get some better photos and write a more in-depth post, once I close up the side seams and it stops looking like a grey alpaca blob.
all alpaca, all the time
I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on, each Wednesday.
I’ve been working on two projects, knitting my alpaca coat, and spinning some alpaca yarn.
On my alpaca coat, I’m about 3/4 of the way done with the second front, and kind-of-sort-of hoping against hope that I’ll be able to start the first sleeve this weekend.
Awhile back a friend gave me, what I thought was 8 ounces of alpaca fiber, but that turned out to be 12. I started spinning it back in July, and that ball there is the first three ounces of fiber – spun on my drop spindle.
After getting through 3 ounces I realized that spinning the rest of this on a drop spindle with actually take forever, so a friend (the same one who gave me the fiber) is letting me spin the rest on her miniSpinner. It’s like magic, and I kind of might want one. I’ll try to remember pictures next time I go over to use it.
That’s all I’m working on. Spinning and knitting, all alpaca, all the time.
sweater alterations, zipper installations, and a last minute Rhinebeck trip
Each Wednesday I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
You can see all of the Wednesday posts here.
I didn’t do a ton of knitting this week, but three important things did happen.
Firstly, I added length to the sleeves of my boring black sweater.
I did this by cutting off the cuffs, picking up the live stitches of the sleeve, and then grafting the cuff back onto the sleeve. I added 2.5 inches and just need to weave in the ends and re-block the sweater.
Secondly, I added the zipper to the sweater I started three years ago.
Quite successfully I think. I wore it yesterday, it fits great (yay!), and it really is kind of the perfect transitional weather sweater.
Thirdly, I went to Rhinebeck and all I took home were some sheepy photos.
A friend and I decided at the very last minute to go, so we went up for the day on Saturday. It was beautiful – I hadn’t been in a couple years, and sort of forgot just how much fun it is.
Nothing came home with me, I didn’t see anything I had to have, I think I’m just in a finishing things up phase (which is actually a pretty good phase to be in.)
