spinning yarn, and editing words
Each Wednesday, I post a snapshot of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
It’s been one of those weeks where I had no interest in working on fixing a fair isle project. I didn’t have time to sit down and focus on it, plus my brain was just not going to click into a project that complicated.
So I pulled out a couple ounces of merino spinning fiber, and my trusty spindle. I have about 50 grams each of the bright-aqua, and the royal blue. I split both colors in half, then spun half of one and half of the other into one single. And plan to do the same with the second half. Then I’ll ply them together into a heavy laceweight 2-ply yarn.
For me spinning projects are always a nice light project that I never have to think too much about, or plan too carefully.
Shawl Geometry Book Three edits continue. Though at this point many pages are being straight up rewritten, and I’m starting to wonder what I’m going to do for a photography background once I’m finished.
getting a fair isle pattern to line up across a three needle bind off
Each Wednesday, I post a snapshot of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
My original plan with this piece of fabric was to turn it into a steeked cardigan with a fair amount of shaping, so I’ve had to do a bit of fudging to get the pattern to line up (semi)seamlessly across the three-needle bind off.
After a bit of ripping out and reknitting it looks pretty good, so I’m going to leave it, weave in a ton of ends, and find some stuffing.
(Shawl Geometry Book 3 edits continue, and I have nothing interesting to say about them.)
turning a sweater into a pillow
Each Wednesday, I post a snapshot of the projects I’m working on, and where my brain is at.
Last week I touched no knitting, instead focusing on edits for the Shawl Geometry books, and a new project. But this week, I also dove back into my bag of unfinished projects and pulled out what is probably the oldest unfinished project I have laying around.
I started this sweater back in 2012 and never even finished the bodice.
Since, I have no intention of finishing this as a sweater, and I’m absolutely not ripping the whole thing out. I figure I’ll close up both ends and turn it into a pillow. Fingers crossed that works.
