Thursday, July 7, 2011

Tour de Fleece, day 6

I finally have a finished yarn to show. Well, I have two finished yarns because I finally got my act together with the camera and the sun.

1 ounce of baby camel, plyed back on itself. About 185 yards, light fingering/heavy lace weight. It turned out fairly nice.



Also, here's what I finished up at the start of the tour. 4.something ounces of BFL dyed by Dicentra, colorway Twig, Navajo plied. Each skein is about 180 yards. The first bobbin plyed up at about a DK weight, and the second one at a nice sport weight.



Tuesday, July 5, 2011

Tour de Fleece, day 4

Didn't post yesterday because there wouldn't have been much to show. But I'm nearly done with the baby camel. Another couple of days should have it sewn up.

Sunday, July 3, 2011

Tour de Fleece, day 2

Got more done. Have 0.7oz roving left to spin of the original 1.1oz.

Westley still runs and hides whenever the wheel is in motion.

Saturday, July 2, 2011

Tour de Fleece

I'm participating in this year's Tour de Fleece on Ravelry, and today was the official start. I'm part of Team TARDIS and am spinning up all of my "exotic" fibers. That means all of what I got at Black Sheep 2011 plus my 1.1 oz baby camel that I've had since the Newport Spin-In 2010.

Here's the progress that I made today. It's not as much as I'd like, but I had some technical difficulties with my wheel. After lots of trouble shooting I figured out that the bobbin I was using is broken. Also, I need to do what feels like over spinning to account for the short staple fiber and slippery fiber.



I'll probably be doing more frequent updates here during the tour.

Monday, June 27, 2011

Black Sheep Plunder

Dyed Silk Mawata





Organic cotton and Lycra (about 1.5 oz)



Carbonized Bamboo (2 oz)



Knitting themed fabric (1/3 yd)



Crab shell fiber (1 oz)



Also, finished May socks!

Monday, June 20, 2011

May Socks

Yes, I know it's June, but these were supposed to be the May socks, and I did start them in May. I actually finished the first sock in May. The following pictures are of the second sock, that should be completed with enough time to start the June socks while it's still actually June.



Here's my sock while I was visiting the coastal tide pools on June 9th.



Here it is later that day at the Devil's Punchbowl (low tide). I love that these socks move fast when I actually knit on them.



This is a rather strange webcam photo taken today during some downtime at an orientation conference that is part of my summer job. If I'm really good I might be able to finish the leg of the sock by the end of the orientation (tomorrow involves a bus trip to and from Portland).

Part of the reason why this sock is taking longer than it's mate is because I finished up being a Master's student.



I've also started my new job that lasts through the summer. If I'm on my game I'll try to get some photos of what's going on as the summer progresses. My part is fairly mundane (TA for the online segment) but there will be neat stuff going on in my vicinity.

I don't have a current photo of my Hempathy top. I've got hung up on it (there are too many stitches on the front panel). When I get that sorted out I'll put up pictures.

That's all for now. I'm really going to work on posting more frequently this summer. Stay tuned for more reports form a day in my life.