Now after some plying this weekend I have four and a half skeins of my lovely self-striping kool-aid dyed yarn. Not sure what I can make out of it. I really have no ideas when it comes to things like this. Right now, I think it’ll take me all four and a half skeins to get a scarf. But in total, this was 8 oz of fiber (before dying), and I feel like I should have more than enough to make a scarf.
My spinning wheel is calling. I did some spinning earlier this morning before I sat down to work on my candle flame shawl. I did a little, but I just need to spin. That’s my problem. I spin because I want to spin. I like spinning. I like fiber. I never have a specific project in mind when I start spinning. Because of this I don’t make much with my handspun. I’m always afraid I’m going to run short. I guess I just don’t know how much yarn it takes to make everyday kinda items.
I’ve played with the idea of selling my handspun, but I just don’t know if it would sell or not. I don’t know if people would want it. AHHH! It drives me crazy… What do you think? Is it worth selling it just to see if there’s much of a market for it? I guess if it doesn’t sell I could always keep it, or even gift it. Does anyone out there actually sold some of their handspun?
I made this.
Actually I made this on Tuesday, and it was drying when I was posting about Adamas. I would have updated yesterday about it but I spent all day in Delaware, OH, because we went down to visit my sister for parents night at band camp.
In other not so great news… My cousins apartment burned to the ground. They barely got out in time. The more we find out the worse the story gets. The smoke alarms had been beeping so apparently they took out the batteries. So then of course, when the apartment caught fire there was no warning. Two of my cousins, and the oldests baby live in this apartment. The baby is not two weeks old. So the boyfriend/father of the baby was staying the night. He heard an explosion and woke up, to flames. No one else was even awake, so he woke his girlfriend up, grabbed the baby and then got the younger sister up. They made it out by pure luck. The pets survivd too even though they were forgotten about in all the chaos. So three families are without homes, it was arson, and everything is gone including the car that was in the garage.
Finally I can post a picture of Adamas. It isn’t the world best picture. I’ve found that this shade is very hard to photograph, or at least it is for me. I tried going outside, where the sun, and furniture just washed it out. Then I tried the living room. It was okay. The pure glory of the color doesn’t show through, but you can see the general shape.
Pattern: Adamas from Knitpicks
Yarn: Shadow in color Oregon Coast, also from Knitpicks
Okay.. I know, not that exciting.
Also, I finished square number 7 for charity. Square 6 was finished either earlier this week or late last week, and because I didn’t include a picture before, there’s one now. I’ve worked on Pomatomus, it’s coming along.
I would love to post about the shawl and show you the finished pictures, but my mom took it to work with her to show everyone, and it probably won’t be back till tomorrow night.
Until then I will entertain you with what came in the mail today. A cute little package from my SP!
All sorts of goodies.
There’s a crochet hook/dpn/other random thing holder, cute little notecards with a knitter on them, some magnet like things, dark chocolate (which looks amazing), and of course there was yarn. Hand-dyed sock yarn to be specific. The yarn has all sorts of colors in it. There’s lots of blue and some browns. One skein seems quite a bit darker than the other, so I’m not sure if I’m going to do the whole every other row with a different skein kinda thing, or just knit one sock with each color and ignore the fact that there’s a slight difference in color. I guess I could just make each skein into two smaller balls, then just do the whole alternating thing.
It’s been blocked. Looks great.
Only took about 10 hours maybe to dry.
I was eager to get it off the blocking board, especially since my cats took a liking to pull the pins out and chew on them.
I tried to take a picture but it just wasn’t happening. I hope to get one outside tomorrow, and maybe eventually I’ll get a picture of it on me. Who knows. I’m not very photogenic.
Finally got some buttons today when I bought a blocking board for my shawl.
Shawl is still blocking. It feels dry to me but I’m scared to take the pins out. I have this horrible feeling it’ll just bounce back to the way it was before.
In the meantime I sewed the buttons I bought on the sweater. They were perfect for the top and bottom button holes that were done in the size 6 needles. They were too small though for the other three holes. I was upset, and I mean upset. (I might have been a little tired) So I went back to the store and bought some bigger buttons for the middle 3 holes. Doesn’t look too bad.
I really want to do some spinning.
Adamas is blocking. The cats are quite interested in it. Kitty number 1 was caught sitting on it, he wandered off, and no sooner than he did kitty number 2 showed up and took his turn.
This could be potentially problematic.
I might just spend the rest of the day spinning while babysitting Adamas.
Cross my fingers, maybe it’ll be dry by tonight? Not likely, but possible.
I came close to finishing Adamas before I left. Not close enough to get it off the needles though. I have maybe 1/4 of it casted off, so it should be off today. I’m really thinking I might go get a blocking board. I was going to just use a cardboard box but I have a bad feeling it won’t be big enough. I’m waiting for the 40% off coupon that we will hopefully get in the paper today.
Still need buttons for my baby sweater. I need to start another one too for a baby that’s been here for several months. Last September my other cousin had a baby, and I had been working away on a baby blanket but it had 222 little pieces and after sewing them all together and weaving in 21392083928 ends, I wasn’t giving it up. But I saw the baby again yesterday, I really think he needs a sweater… he’s just so cute!
Started the second Pomatomus, I have a cuff so far. There really hasn’t been much knitting happening. Hopefully I’ll have more to show in the upcoming days.
