Tuesday, February 12, 2008

Spring is in the air

I know I've been away for a while, but I'm glad that Liz has been keeping you amuzed!
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:

Anonymous said...

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!

Stefaneener said...

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?

Lizzy said...

lovely mohair!! makes me want to squeeze!!!!!