However - quick quiz - what sort of dangerous item do you think this belongs to? Obviously a bit of a hazard...
Yes, that's right - a pair of jeans.I can't really identify the precise moment at which we became so stupid (or perhaps afraid of litigation) that we forgot that denim = indigo = fading = dye loss...
But in more blueness: the first skein of what I'm calling Blue Meanie.... This is 100% merino superwash from Wingham, for the Tour de Fleece, dyed by me in a couple of different intensities of ultramarine. Because of my lack of spinning skillz (and speed), this is the first week and a half's production at a whopping 167 grammes (try not to be too impressed, people who spin...); 422 metres though, which is the finest I've managed.
It turns out that when you put a skein of yarn onto a patio table at 5:30am, you get an audience...
... even if that audience is utterly unimpressed and really just wants breakfast.
I think I'll probably be knitting Sherbert/Sherbet from the last Yarn Forward (who knows, the magazine index says one thing, the pattern another, 'twas ever thus with YF), if I can get the tension to come out right.
Meanwhile Decimal is about 40 rows from cast-off, and then pick-up of the edging - but it's still just a big heap of cream stuff - it will not be cream when I start wearing it though... Next week I'm teaching at Cottenham Summer School which will be fun and exhausting at the same time...
Oh, also - no 3:15 update this week. I did do some work in the garden, but either I was out, or entertaining, or it rained, so most of what was done was after the photos. They look so alarmingly similar to last week's that I'm not going to bother... The rain did mean that I could sit in my kitchen on Sunday morning, spinning and listening to the cricket at Lords on the radio (and yay for Freddie who was magnificent throughout and thoroughly deserved Man of the Match), and watching the rain beat down on the roof above me, 60 miles north of the action... never a bad thing...
But in more blueness: the first skein of what I'm calling Blue Meanie.... This is 100% merino superwash from Wingham, for the Tour de Fleece, dyed by me in a couple of different intensities of ultramarine. Because of my lack of spinning skillz (and speed), this is the first week and a half's production at a whopping 167 grammes (try not to be too impressed, people who spin...); 422 metres though, which is the finest I've managed.
It turns out that when you put a skein of yarn onto a patio table at 5:30am, you get an audience...
... even if that audience is utterly unimpressed and really just wants breakfast.I think I'll probably be knitting Sherbert/Sherbet from the last Yarn Forward (who knows, the magazine index says one thing, the pattern another, 'twas ever thus with YF), if I can get the tension to come out right.
Meanwhile Decimal is about 40 rows from cast-off, and then pick-up of the edging - but it's still just a big heap of cream stuff - it will not be cream when I start wearing it though... Next week I'm teaching at Cottenham Summer School which will be fun and exhausting at the same time...
Oh, also - no 3:15 update this week. I did do some work in the garden, but either I was out, or entertaining, or it rained, so most of what was done was after the photos. They look so alarmingly similar to last week's that I'm not going to bother... The rain did mean that I could sit in my kitchen on Sunday morning, spinning and listening to the cricket at Lords on the radio (and yay for Freddie who was magnificent throughout and thoroughly deserved Man of the Match), and watching the rain beat down on the roof above me, 60 miles north of the action... never a bad thing...
2 comments:
The yarn is so pretty! The colors are wonderful... and I think 422 metres is excellent. Anytime you can spin enough to actually make something out of it you've accomplished plenty.
Well I think it looks very impressive!
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