Maine Woods Arrives and Rogue Started - Dawn
I have been a knitting and spinning queen. This past week my Rovings from Persimmon Tree Farm arrived. The Maine Woods colorway which I salavated over at SAFF is still as beautiful as I remember it and I'm now spinning it up and day dreaming about what I will make out of the 2lbs that a bought. Yes I bought 2lbs! Yikes!
I'll probably get a sweater out of it and then some. As usual the picture doesn't do the color justice. It is a much darker and greener color than what it looks like here. Lindsey, how is your Permisson Tree Farm roving doing? I've already finished one hank, knitted up a sample and am combing through my pattern books for the perfect one. I'm spinning pretty thin now though I did have a bit of trouble when I started to ply. The strands were continually breaking and poor Bette was upset by my shouting and cursing. I finally got through the first hank. I think I know what I was doing wrong, but I will have to wait to find out when I ply the next one. Will there be more cursing or will it go smoothly?
The Maine Woods colorway screams Jeff and now is the time to finally knit him a sweater, out of handspun. What love! Picking the pattern will be a challenge.
I've shown him several that I think look good and he says, "it's okay," which means 'I won't wear it.' I will not be deterred from my task. This is the Maine Wood Hank. The card has the date spun, colorway, fiber content and yardage on it. This picture is a little better with the color.
Other developments are that I finished the scarf for my dad. I put it in the mail right away and forgot to take a picture of it. As a result my mother has an assignment to get a picture of Dad wearing it. This way I'll know that he wore it at least once. A little background on the scarf. It is from Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan. The pattern is called Phyllotaxis Scarf and it is knitted in the round. My sister Dana and other mathematical/science type folks will like this bit about the scarf. "The double spirals of twisted stitches occur in two sequential numbers from the Fibonacci sequence as they would in nature: There are five spirals slanting to the right and eight spirals slanting to the left so the pair from the Fibonacci sequence is 5-8."
I've also finally started Rogue. I bought the yarn from Kpixie.com a long time ago and bought the pattern even longer ago and now I'm knitting it. It's great! I've read all these other blogs about what a pleasure it is to knit and finally listened to the Cast-on episode where Brenda Dayne goes on about Rogue and decided to start. They are right. It goes by so quickly. The cables are magical and... and... I'm at the separation of the front and back now.
We'll see how the hood goes. Progress photo here. I'm a little further than this now . The color is called Willow. Jeff describes it as a wheat color. It is 100% wool 2-ply from Bartlett. The yarn is not as soft as I would have like, but the cables really pop with this yarn.
I'll probably get a sweater out of it and then some. As usual the picture doesn't do the color justice. It is a much darker and greener color than what it looks like here. Lindsey, how is your Permisson Tree Farm roving doing? I've already finished one hank, knitted up a sample and am combing through my pattern books for the perfect one. I'm spinning pretty thin now though I did have a bit of trouble when I started to ply. The strands were continually breaking and poor Bette was upset by my shouting and cursing. I finally got through the first hank. I think I know what I was doing wrong, but I will have to wait to find out when I ply the next one. Will there be more cursing or will it go smoothly?The Maine Woods colorway screams Jeff and now is the time to finally knit him a sweater, out of handspun. What love! Picking the pattern will be a challenge.
I've shown him several that I think look good and he says, "it's okay," which means 'I won't wear it.' I will not be deterred from my task. This is the Maine Wood Hank. The card has the date spun, colorway, fiber content and yardage on it. This picture is a little better with the color.Other developments are that I finished the scarf for my dad. I put it in the mail right away and forgot to take a picture of it. As a result my mother has an assignment to get a picture of Dad wearing it. This way I'll know that he wore it at least once. A little background on the scarf. It is from Knitting Nature by Norah Gaughan. The pattern is called Phyllotaxis Scarf and it is knitted in the round. My sister Dana and other mathematical/science type folks will like this bit about the scarf. "The double spirals of twisted stitches occur in two sequential numbers from the Fibonacci sequence as they would in nature: There are five spirals slanting to the right and eight spirals slanting to the left so the pair from the Fibonacci sequence is 5-8."
I've also finally started Rogue. I bought the yarn from Kpixie.com a long time ago and bought the pattern even longer ago and now I'm knitting it. It's great! I've read all these other blogs about what a pleasure it is to knit and finally listened to the Cast-on episode where Brenda Dayne goes on about Rogue and decided to start. They are right. It goes by so quickly. The cables are magical and... and... I'm at the separation of the front and back now.
We'll see how the hood goes. Progress photo here. I'm a little further than this now . The color is called Willow. Jeff describes it as a wheat color. It is 100% wool 2-ply from Bartlett. The yarn is not as soft as I would have like, but the cables really pop with this yarn.
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