Because you couldn't escape the photos
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untonugganYay! Internet back. Huzzah. I did lots of knitting and spinning and fulling the yarn and only once accidentally whacking my hand on the bathtub while fulling the yarn. I also knit with my handspun! \o/
I decided I couldn't wait for enough of one yarn for a full project to try it, so here's the plan: I'm spinning lots of the colorful fiber for a big project (well, big in terms of homespun. Maybe a cowl? Or a hat? I have 50 yards of single ply right now I think that's unfulled in about a worsted weight. Need MOAR.)
In the meantime, the neutral colored stuff is - HERESY OF HERESIES - being mixed with machine spun yarn to make a shawl. In my defense, the fiber is from a local alpaca farm (they outsource the spinning).
I think it looks swell (if a little bit scrunched in order to stay on the needles):
The texture ofthe my homespun is pretty funky:
I am glad it looks good in garter stitch, because I am herxing at the moment and so I can't manage anything complicated. My brain just won't compute. Thus, these two lovely projects are languishing in the wings even though they're close to done.
Here's the cardigan I'm making for myself; it just needs sleeves but I'm not up to knitting on DPNs, especially if they're attached to a great big swath of yarn like that. :D Plus, I want to add that lace pattern to the end, too. So yes. This will have to wait. I just hope it's done in time to wear it for spring!
I'm also knitting a shrug for my mom in this lovely lace pattern, which was really easy to do when I wasn't herxing. Ah, well. My brain will come back to me eventually and then I can finish it. *grumbles to self*
In the meantime, I seem to be able to spin okay, so I'll just be thankful for that. <3 <3 <3
ETA: I am also now of enough spinning proficiency that I can spin while talking on the phone if it's on speakerphone. \o/
I decided I couldn't wait for enough of one yarn for a full project to try it, so here's the plan: I'm spinning lots of the colorful fiber for a big project (well, big in terms of homespun. Maybe a cowl? Or a hat? I have 50 yards of single ply right now I think that's unfulled in about a worsted weight. Need MOAR.)
In the meantime, the neutral colored stuff is - HERESY OF HERESIES - being mixed with machine spun yarn to make a shawl. In my defense, the fiber is from a local alpaca farm (they outsource the spinning).
I think it looks swell (if a little bit scrunched in order to stay on the needles):
The texture of
I am glad it looks good in garter stitch, because I am herxing at the moment and so I can't manage anything complicated. My brain just won't compute. Thus, these two lovely projects are languishing in the wings even though they're close to done.
Here's the cardigan I'm making for myself; it just needs sleeves but I'm not up to knitting on DPNs, especially if they're attached to a great big swath of yarn like that. :D Plus, I want to add that lace pattern to the end, too. So yes. This will have to wait. I just hope it's done in time to wear it for spring!
I'm also knitting a shrug for my mom in this lovely lace pattern, which was really easy to do when I wasn't herxing. Ah, well. My brain will come back to me eventually and then I can finish it. *grumbles to self*
In the meantime, I seem to be able to spin okay, so I'll just be thankful for that. <3 <3 <3
ETA: I am also now of enough spinning proficiency that I can spin while talking on the phone if it's on speakerphone. \o/
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Date: 2013-02-14 10:42 am (UTC)*waves... her laptop charger at weasels because it's all she's got near at present* Go away, weasels! You lie!
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Date: 2013-02-14 01:19 pm (UTC)