For my next pair of special socks for a special person! (The first photo shows the color best!)

TGIF!!

I don’t have a lot to say today… so here are some pictures of my finished heart scarf. It still need blocking, but I managed to make it look ok for pictures. I love blue and I love hearts.:)

edited to add some details:
Yarn: Handspun, 6-7 WPI (I’m not sure of yardage)
Pattern: Heart Scarf from Fall 2004 Knitty Surprise
Needles: Size 15
Other: It took about a week for me to finish this project.

and this is what’s left … more than I expected … hmmm what to do, what to do?

So long, farewell!

Ok, I’m at work … I’ve been bringing my knitting with me to work on at lunch and I didn’t do that today. A most unsettling feeling … not knowing what to do with my hands!

The heart scarf is finished! Pictures coming soon!

Smile! You’re one day closer to Friday!

as previously mentioned, I have a new project, using handspun yarn bought from an etsy seller. I’m makin’ progress!
From this:

To this:

and then…

now this is where I am tonight:

(pattern is from the Fall 2004 Knitty surprise)

I can’t say that I love the size 15 needles, but I love how fast this project is progressing.

ttfn!

[note: this post is image intensive]

I have no idea how it all started. . . well, that’s not really true … it started with 4 oz of hand painted Merino roving.

There are two blogs that I read where the bloggers spin amongst their other creative endeavors, (here and here) but I never really connected with the content or even really understood it.

But after this roving was sitting with my yarn stash for a couple of months, I started to wonder what I was going to do with it. Thus began my research into spinning – and it was purely information gathering.

I bought books:

These books were ok but I wasn’t all that impressed by them, however the book I found most thorough and helpful was:

I found a few sites ( like The Joy of Handspinning and ICanSpin.com) and even saw a couple of spindles that caught my eye… but how did I know if I would like this? So spending $20-40 bucks on a spindle was not what I wanted so I bought a beginner top whorl spindle on etsy.

And to make a long story short …

I also bought:

1. a 1 yard niddy noddy on etsy
2. a 3 oz wool sampler from an etsy seller and
3. 8 oz of dyed Corriedale wool from hello yarn.

My spindle arrived on Saturday, March 10. I pre-drafted as best I knew how and spun a couple of .5 oz singles from the wool sampler (using the park and draft method). I went to bed thinking … ‘what’s the big deal’ … the next day, I plied. I must admit that was cool. And here are the other two mini skeins from the wools sampler:

Next I spun and plied the corridale:

So, despite some allergy issues, I ended up with about 35 yards of very bulky corridale yarn. Any ideas on what I can make with it?

Here’s a little slideshow of pictures, graciously taken by my friend. She got the color of them pretty much on target.

Click on the thumbnail to see them! (The link will open a new window)

Yarn from Cabin Cove Mercantile, Colorway: Nana’s Geraniums.

ttfn!