Despite all the work & travel that I've packed into the past few months, I've actually managed to get quite a bit of knitting & spinning done! And I have a few things to show for it, but first things first.
A belated congrats to Connie K. who won the drawing for Melissa Wehrle's debut book, Metropolitan Knits. Even though I'm behind on blogging about it, I selected her comment via the random number generator & contacted her as promised on August 16th. She tells me she has the book in hand & hopefully has cast on for her preferred project The Magnolia Cafe Cardigan. Happy knitting, Connie! Now onward to the FO's!
These are my Mermaid's Lagoon socks. These socks have been on the needles for a very long time. Like well over a year.
Here I am working on them this past April in Jamaica. Before that, they accompanied me to Mexico in April of 2012. Finally, their journey is over.
I'm still not sure that this was the best pairing of yarn & pattern. The pattern is awfully hard to see. Here's a side-by-side comparison of my sock (left) & one of the photos from the pattern (right), knit in a solid-colored yarn.
I have 3 skeins & 186 yards of this yarn. I'm thinking I'd like to stripe it with some grey or brown in mitts or a cowl but I have no definite plans for it yet. The way the colors distributed themselves during plying, with the blue acting as a common thread throughout the red, purple & orange, makes me want to see it knitted up by itself. However I'm also afraid it'll pool or be underwhelming on its own. This one probably needs to sit in my stash for a while until inspiration strikes.
A belated congrats to Connie K. who won the drawing for Melissa Wehrle's debut book, Metropolitan Knits. Even though I'm behind on blogging about it, I selected her comment via the random number generator & contacted her as promised on August 16th. She tells me she has the book in hand & hopefully has cast on for her preferred project The Magnolia Cafe Cardigan. Happy knitting, Connie! Now onward to the FO's!
These are my Mermaid's Lagoon socks. These socks have been on the needles for a very long time. Like well over a year.
Here I am working on them this past April in Jamaica. Before that, they accompanied me to Mexico in April of 2012. Finally, their journey is over.
I'm still not sure that this was the best pairing of yarn & pattern. The pattern is awfully hard to see. Here's a side-by-side comparison of my sock (left) & one of the photos from the pattern (right), knit in a solid-colored yarn.
These are definitely not my favorite socks but I don't dislike them. Mostly I'm glad they're done. Of course, I haven't stopped buying sock yarn so there will be more epic sock projects in my knitting future.
My other finished item, which I'm extremely excited about, is the Impossible Dreams spinning. Behold!
I have 3 skeins & 186 yards of this yarn. I'm thinking I'd like to stripe it with some grey or brown in mitts or a cowl but I have no definite plans for it yet. The way the colors distributed themselves during plying, with the blue acting as a common thread throughout the red, purple & orange, makes me want to see it knitted up by itself. However I'm also afraid it'll pool or be underwhelming on its own. This one probably needs to sit in my stash for a while until inspiration strikes. 
In other project news, I'm continuing to reknit the Buttony Sweater & keeping my fingers crossed that this time, it will fit.
As fall arrives in Seattle, there are lots of great fiber events coming up, such as Seattle Yarn's 15th anniversary & the Whidbey Island Fabulous Fall Fiber Sale, now with free classes! Not to mention, I still haven't recounted my yarn adventures in Austin, so stay tuned for that next time!
1 comment:
those socks are still pretty awesome, though i see what you're saying about the yarn overwhelming the pattern. and that yarn you've made is great! striping it does sound fun. i once made a yarn that looked pretty similar and striped it with an orangey red in this project: http://www.ravelry.com/projects/juniperjune/andreas-shawl
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