Better, Faster, Stronger

Or...just different? I think the re-branding is just about complete. I went through a number of different design ideas before I settled onto this one. It had to be colorful and reminiscent of fireworks, so that's what it is!


I've been a bad, bad blogger, letting so much time go without writing anything. Honestly, though, life has been a little hectic. I have been knitting and spinning, but I've been really, really bad about taking pictures. Here's what I've got:

Here's some SW merino that's sitting on the bobbin in an N-ply. I'm fairly happy with how it came out, but my consistency could have been better...and the posture for N-plying really hurts my back. I'm hoping I can find a way to sit to chain ply that doesn't involve having my back twisted. It doesn't like that, however much I do like to ply otherwise.

Skeined up:

Here we've got some Swirl BFL that I spun up and plied onto itself...It's so bouncy and soft!

And now some sproiiiiiiiingy yarn! For Christmas I got 4 bumps of Frog Tree Yarns Meriboo--2 in pink and 2 in purple. I decided that they would all be Experimental fiber, and for the first experiment, I did a true 3-ply, ending up with a magnificently full bobbin!

 

Which then turned into a boingy-sproingy skein of squoosh-deliciousness!

I don't know that I'm ever going to actually knit with it. I love squooshing it too much!

After I pulled the Meriboo off the bobbins, I started up with some lovely Frabjuous Fibers Polworth that I picked up from The Studio. The colorway is called Moulin Rouge, and it's red and lovely, but that means it's hard to photograph. Darn.

I'm trying to spin it as fine as I can. As you can see, I've made some fauxlags (faux rolags, heh) from the top, and I'm doing a long draw, mostly because I find long draw to be more relaxing than a worsted-style draw. I feel like I'm getting it pretty fine. ^_^

So, aside from the spinning, I've been working on a Lavanda sweater for my little girl. She picked the pattern, and we'll be dying it pink once it's all done, which part of me mourns. I'm loving this Fisherman's Wool. It's springy and has really good elasticity, which made the cables much less harrowing than I remember cables being (let's not talk about cables in acrylic!). I am much pleased, but I'm glad that I'm almost done, because I'm getting a liiiiiiiittle tired of the reverse stockinette field of the sleeves. 

  The red bits of yarn at the band are markers for where the buttons will go. I thought that'd be easier than just trying to guess and maybe not get them lining up correctly with the buttonholes.

My other project OTN is a pair of Harvest Dew socks, from my self-made sock club for the year. Really, it's January's sock, but I'll catch up, I swear!

Oh, and I almost forgot! I whipped up a Percy for the Bits' school fundraiser's silent auction, and I think it was the highest-grossing of the items at the auction!

I replaced the nupps with gold beads, half to go with the "Jazz it up" theme with a sort of Mardi Gras-esque color theme (minus the green, but who's counting?) and half because I wasn't sure I'd have enough yarn if I did them. I don't think I should have worried.

I promise to be more diligent about taking pictures and posting things from here on out!