Happy Valentine's Day! Spring is definitely near with acacia and cherry blossoming here and there. It means lots of sneezing for Mitch and Charlie. Poor boys.
Mitch has a wide range of hobbies.
While he was having fun with my Joy, I was spinning more corriedale because I was running out of the handspun to knit EZ's Ribwarmer.
This was knit with my earlier handspinning product. I love the way it's coming out -- I wasn't happy with the singles when I was plying them, but when it's knit up it's very soft and lofty.
But the batch I just spun came out terrible! It's too tight in both spinning and plying, and the gauge is all wrong now -- and it's tight and not pretty. I thought my spinning skill was getting better, but I guess I was imagining. Sigh.
Luckily I have just some more corriedale left, so I am going to spin it again -- back to basics. I hope I can repeat the soft hand again.
Here's the January delivery of "Fiber of the Month Club" Charlie gave me for Christmas.
MMMMMMMohair!!
I wonder what this is going to turn into?Did you get the Spring issue of IK? Did you like it? I didn't. Why do they have to put six cardigans in very similar designs knitted in similar yarn in the colors alike? I didn't much care for the Winter issue, and I'm disappointed that I didn't find anything I wanted to knit two issues in a row. Bummer.
3 comments:
I agree. I didn't like IK either. Too many sweaters. I've been told that the socks were a repeat pattern. I just would like to have a few more smaller projects amongst all the sweaters!
Did you spin them using the same technique? Over the fold, off the tip? I hope you can catch it again -- that first batch looks lovely.
The latest IK left me a little blah. What's with the "Hey, look at my belly!" sweater designs?
lovely mohair!! makes me want to squeeze!!!!!
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