Author: denisemor

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We’ve got chickens!

Baby chickens, anyway:

3 Rhode Island Reds, 1 Buff Orpington, and 1 Gold Sex Link

Here’s the little chickie setup in the shop:

They are definitely more alert and active than when they first got home.
Yesterday they were just “peeping”. Today they are really “cheeping”!

And while they are eating and drinking and cheeping and growing, The Man is working on their permanent accommodations:

When it’s done, it will look pretty much like this-

Neat, eh?

The Shepherd’s Vest is done! I handed it off to Tina on Saturday.

Sure do hope it fits. I’m so used to being able to do try-ons as I go when I knit for myself and The Man.

I think it turned out really well.

The yarn being two colors gives a nice marled effect and provides enough textural interest without any cabling or patterned stitches.

It hopefully will serve as a dependable go-with-everything extra layer.

Can never have too many sweaters like that.

And so now it’s on to the next project!

This is the rest of the half-fleece I bought back in November. Just freshly washed up.

It has a nice range of colors that I’ve sorted into light, medium and dark batches.

I’ve already used some of it to knit some socks (because it’s just so easy to cast on for more standard recipe socks).

But I’ve already got a couple more skeins in standby, and I’m thinking of a sweater.

A Shades of Gray sweater. Dark to light, or light to dark.

Light and soft and simple.

It’s been a tough week for knitting and spinning.

I’ve got keyboard fatigue, and the fingers have been rebelling.

And I’ve also had a little bit of a setback on the Shepherd’s Vest. Had to rip back to the armpits on the front.

The yarn has changed enough in grist to make the fabric considerably thinner,, so I’ve had to rethink my completion strategy.

I’m going to go down an needle size, choose the thickest of the remaining yarn, and take another shot at completing it this week.

I’ll just have to feel out the gauge as I go.

This weeks stashbusting:

It’s a double coated shetland, softly spun and then navajo plied. I just love the variety of colors and textures in it.

To me it looks kind of nutty, or spicy.  It has real character.