January 30, 2011
2011: noro hat and hand warmers
we had a fun and productive studio day at alison's yesterday. i worked on finishing up the remaining hand warmer yesterday and managed to complete it this morning. will be mailing them out to debbie in the next couple of days.
2010: citron shawl
i fell in love with this pattern for citron shawl at knitty.com when i first saw it.
Dye Dreams Classy Sox
Colorway - Red Rock 1218-643
80% Superwash Merino / 10% Cashmere / 10% Nylon
machine-wash, lay flat to dry
gifted to maria, christmas 2010
debbie has learned to knit
debbie has taken up knitting with fiendish enthusiasm. i gifted some handspun yarn (jabberwocky) to her at christmas and she immediately began to knit this scarf:
scarf:
jabberwocky (gifted to debbie christmas 2010):
January 27, 2011
January 23, 2011
January 18, 2011
busy handwork
i have begun to steadily work through a year-long membership of monthly 8 oz. raw fiber shipments (one of natchwoolie's fiber of the month clubs) which i had received as a birthday gift from mom and dad. i received the last shipment in july 2010 and had been storing most of those shipments unprocessed.
for some insane reason, at the height of my normal gift making season, i decided that i just had to finish washing up all of the unprocessed fiber in the house. at the time, i had about ten 8 oz packages of various fiber, in addition to two complete icelandic lamb fleeces which i bought from misty meadow icelandics back in november 2009.
well, i managed to finish washing most of that fiber before christmas. i have about three-quarters of one of the lamb fleeces still remaining.
i chose the multi-color border leicester wool to hand-card and spin on my newest bosworth spindle. this is probably the slowest way to process and spin this fiber and i may actually end up carding the rest of the fiber with the drum carder, diz it off into roving and then spin it on the spinning wheel -- but for now, i am enjoying the slowness of the process.