Author: denisemor

The second Canyonlands shawl is done and blocking!

And I am anxious to start another sweater.
I’ve even got one picked out-

Tuin, by Tori Seiuerstad

I love the patterning on the yoke- but I really want to do the separate parts of the design in different colors.

The tentative plan is to use a blend of Felix/Frank and Griff for the main yoke color, and the fun colors I dyed a while back for the patterning.

I’ve been thinking about it a lot, and I’m considering just knitting the yoke plain, and then going back and doing duplicate stitch.

The only way I could do it fair-isle style would be to work back and forth and have different colors going for each of the sections.
Possible, but pretty complicated.
I don’t have much experience with duplicate stitch, but I figure that way I’d actually be using less yarn overall, and I could work with only one color at a time.

Thoughts? Suggestions?

While I’m figuring it out, I’ve got some Zauberball socks going just to keep the hands busy.

I almost feel bad for them.
It was such a lopsided game.

Which takes something away from my ability to revel in the Seahawks win.

The game was so securely in hand at halftime that doing a little celebratory Hawks-themed spinning.

Mmmmmm. Mohair.

Mmmmmm. Victory.

Way to go Hawks!

It was both invigorating and exhausting!

Both classes (Wool Processing and Spinning Wheels 101) were well attended and folks had all kinds of good questions- some of which I had answers for, and some I didn’t.

It’s always the “didn’ts” that challenge me to create more and better class resources for next year-

Like “How long does it take to process a fleece from freshly shorn to ready to spin?”

Of course, that’s going to depend on a lot of factors, from size of the fleece to how it needs to be prepped (carded?, combed?)
But it go me thinking about the kinds of information people want/need to feel confident diving into something like this.

I’ve never been especially good at documenting my wool workflow- but I’m thinking I might try to track the time involved with processing one fleece, as an experiment. And get some video, too. I think that might be a neat thing to be able to present. Film the whole thing, and then speed it up 10X or something?

Talking with folks who are interested in doing the things I enjoy so much always gets my creative juices flowing.

And, as an extra little treat, I got myself a mohair fix.

Many beautiful colors of mohair from Wandering Creek Farm in Arlington, WA.

Chone is all smiles-

And I’m excited but tired just from watching what was a really hard-fought game.

I didn’t even knit while watching because I didn’t want to miss anything-

so edging on the shawl remains about 1/3 done.

And I think I need to spin something as a cool down.