Finished, blocked and on my shoulders at this moment, my very first handspun handknit is done. It's a peculiar feeling, this
making first the yarn and then the knitted up item thing. It feels (as silly as it sounds) almost miraculous. It was a braid of wool and now it's a shawl.
The wool and silk combination is light and airy and feels worn in already, nice and soft and cuddly. To be totally honest, I don't love the pattern. The lace wasn't interesting enough to be fun but was not simple enough to be mindless and easy. I should have followed the chart instead of the written directions, which is how I have to do cables (so I should have known better). Lesson learned.
I'm spinning up some boy yarn right now, full of browns and blues and greens. Hopefully it will yield enough to make a pair of trollish socks for the smaller boy feet in my life (I'm not sure I could spin enough to knit socks for Will's ginormous feet!) And in a few weeks I'm heading to the Maryland Wool Festival for the day where I fully intend to load up on fiber, try out as many wheels as I can get my hands on, and generally have a good old time amongst people who don't find the fact that I can't leave the house without some form of knitting or spinning in my bag odd at all.
The wool and silk combination is light and airy and feels worn in already, nice and soft and cuddly. To be totally honest, I don't love the pattern. The lace wasn't interesting enough to be fun but was not simple enough to be mindless and easy. I should have followed the chart instead of the written directions, which is how I have to do cables (so I should have known better). Lesson learned.
I'm spinning up some boy yarn right now, full of browns and blues and greens. Hopefully it will yield enough to make a pair of trollish socks for the smaller boy feet in my life (I'm not sure I could spin enough to knit socks for Will's ginormous feet!) And in a few weeks I'm heading to the Maryland Wool Festival for the day where I fully intend to load up on fiber, try out as many wheels as I can get my hands on, and generally have a good old time amongst people who don't find the fact that I can't leave the house without some form of knitting or spinning in my bag odd at all.