Archive for August, 2007
Posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 9:54 pm
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Well, the official WIP plan worked! I finished the Cabled Pocket Shawl tonight. This was an easy knit with bulky yarn which went fairly fast once I worked on it for more than an hour at a time. I’m planning on using this for cool weather trips […]
Posted on Thursday, August 30th, 2007 at 8:24 am
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Posted on Wednesday, August 29th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
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This is 4.6oz of hand dyed Cotswold locks. I’ll be carding this on Spike. Haven’t decided yet if I’ll blend something else in with it or not. I’m kinda thinking not, spin as singles and then ply with thread. We’ll see how it speaks to me during the […]
Posted on Tuesday, August 28th, 2007 at 10:41 am
Well, as you can see from the sidebar, my list of WIP’s is getting a bit out of control. I have a terminal case of startitis and just am not getting things finished. I’m going to try a test to see if I can finish up some of these languishing projects. I […]
Posted on Sunday, August 26th, 2007 at 5:25 am
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I’ve been working on a Christmas Stocking for my grandson. It’s been a fun pattern and I’m learning a lot as this is my first stranded knitting project. The strange figure at the bottom is actually a snowman, I’m sure it’ll look a lot friendlier when I get his […]
Posted on Tuesday, August 21st, 2007 at 6:03 pm
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Artic Ice - 50% alpaca, 50% corriedale
Alpaca natural gray, corriedale dyed with acid dyes
Blended on drum carder - batts pulled into roving before spinning
17WPI, 2 ply, 376 yards