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I think that I might love locker hooking.

I’ve had the hook for a couple of years, but only just today did I give it a try.

It’s a long hook, with an eye at the end, so that you can attach a yarn and run it through the loops you’ve hooked to “lock” them.
I have been wanting to do this sort of thing for a while, and had also tried out the Oxford rug punch tool, but the locker hook is more my speed.
It’s more versatile, as you can use it with materials of different weights.

Hopefully once I get proficient at this it will be a great way to use up odd bits of yarn. No end to the odd bits of yarn around here!

And since I’m still spinning and figuring out what to do with the brightly colored yarns from my dyeing adventure a couple weeks ago, I’ve started another shawl.
Same pattern, different colorway- and a little bit larger gauge.

Just started the lace trim. I do love this knitted-on edge.

So that is this week in wool.

And this week in the playoffs, Hawks Win! Hawks Win!
Next up, San Fran. Should be a heck of a game.

This is where we’re going on our next vacation.

Land of Knit

🙂

…of 2 socks and a bit of embroidery floss

is the first monkey of the year, outfitted in the first sweater of the year!
Also my first attempt at duplicate stitch for the snowflake/flower-

No name yet for this little cutie yet. I’ll leave that to the little girl he’s headed to in NY.

Other woolly developments include last week’s colorful batts becoming yarn,

and doing a bunch of carding and combing in preparation for the WSU Country Living Expo in a few weeks!
I always like to have a variety of wools available for people to play with.

It’s a great way to spend a day-talking spinning wheels with people and sharing the joy of wool processing.

(And there is usually at least one vendor there with dyed kid mohair, which I find utterly irresistible.)

Have a great week-

The kind of saturation we’ve got going on outside is not especially inspiring.

But inside, my spur-of the-moment dyeing project yielded really cool results!

Started with roughly equal amounts of white (Frank) and light brown (Griff Spring 2012)

Divided into ziplock freezer bags and treated to food coloring and koolaid microwave spa treatment-

It was magically transformed into this-

Nothing like some deeply saturated color therapy on a grey day!

So now the question is, do I spin them up separately and do some cool stranded colorwork, or blend?

I spun up a quick little blended sample from the carding waste so I could get an idea of what it might look like jumbled

But I’m having a hard time deciding. Suggestions are much appreciated!

And I am please to report that I finished the Maui shawl

It was a pretty fun knit.
I don’t usually do shawls, and I’d never done anything with a “knit on” edging, but it was really slick.
You only cast on 3 stitches, and only cast off 25. Very clever.

Well done verybusymonkey.
Well done.