I feel as if I have been very productive lately. Certainly I've got the free time to be doing loads and I'm pretty sure I've been spending most of it doing *something* crafty.
But other than my socks (finally) I haven't really finished anything in awhile (at least I think I haven't - possibly I am also suffering from some kind of time dilation effect brought on by watching 5 years worth of Supernatural in under a month).
Just to make myself feel better I took pictures of all the stuff that's been eating my time the last couple of weeks.
Yesterday I finished spinning and plying the second hank for my Haruni Shawl:
The yarn is about 2 oz of Baby Camel & Silk plied with a bit less than 2 oz of Honey Tussah. I would say its pretty and I love it but that's something of an understatement. I want to marry this yarn. Its lush and soft and warm and cuddly. Total yardage is something around 500yds across 2 skeins (I don't have the exact number because wherever I wrote down the amount from the first skein its wandered off but I know it was over 240 and I have over 260 on the second one). The knitting is going well and I'm a repeat and a half from being done with the first chart.
I have no idea where or how I will actually wear this thing when its done but it love it and its gorgeous.
I recently found another 4oz of the baby camel & silk blend and I'm really seriously considering spinning it up with the rest of the tussah for one of the multiple laceweight cardigans in my queue.
Yum.
Also in spinning I'm still slogging my way through all the ashland bay merino. Its dead boring to spin but the bobbins go fast (when I work on them) and eventually it will be sweater yarn. I am still debating if I want to leave it solid or if I want to do one ply of something either hand-dyed or slightly variegated. I have another 6oz of the solid stuff left to spin before I have to decide.(Also in spinning I have about 1/4 of a skein of Superwash BFL sock yarn singles spun and a bobbin of Ramie and half a cop of SW merino on one of my turkish spindles, none of which I remembered to photograph.)
The bulk of my knitting time has been taken up with working on the Geodesic Cardigan from the latest Knitscene.
My only concern is that I just started in on the tucks and I have this feeling that they're not going to lay correctly in the heavier yarn. The pattern is designed with Malabrigo lace and I'm using Wollmeise 100% which is rounder, thicker and firmer all at once (does that sound as wrong in your head as it does in mine?).
And oh yeah. I'm trying to quilt again.I'm going to knit a few more rounds and do a steam blocking to decide how I want to handle them. I am not actually sure that from a distance a couple of rows of reverse stockinette wouldn't look basically the same and be a bit more wearable in terms of not having thick ridges sitting on top of my boobs.
(also in knitting I started a pair of orange SWBFL socks from some yarn that I dyed awhile back. I'm using the Hedera pattern and doing them 2 at once which I don't really enjoy as much as DPNs but my sock needles are on strike or something and also I am not sure I like this pattern enough to slog through 2 separate socks worth. I forgot to photograph those also.)
I did get my pattern for the Firefly yarn today (Thanks Mom!) and so I'll be casting on for that as soon as I get my needles in from KP (because weirdly enough both the Firefly and the WM got gauge on my 3s and I only have one set in that size in my entire needle hoard).
I pieced that whole 10" block by hand. I sewed that whole block by hand. I also washed and dried and ironed all the fabric for it (only the ironing part by hand) and I am not sure if that makes me awesome or crazy.
I think I will go with awesome for now.
