this and that.

I’m sitting here, coffee in hand, looking through the photos I took yesterday, and there is not much of a theme. It seems that I did a little bit of everything yesterday, so please excuse this post’s lack of focus.
First up, a few more pictures of the silk, which is now dry and in skein [...]

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tussah.

I’m trying to come up with something that rhymes with tussah, and the best I’ve got right now is “sucka” — so let’s just forget that I was going to try to go that way and move on.

Oh_my_goodness.
Let me back up:

I finished spinning the reddish-orangey-pink section of my 2 oz. braid of tussah silk (from [...]

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disaster averted.

Disaster. (Note the amount of yarn remaining, and the number of stitches yet to be bound off. This is take 2 — I was keeping an eye on the remaining yarn as I knit the last few rows, and ended up ripping back a row to make sure I’d have enough. You can see how [...]

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ribbing.

Lest you were beginning to think that I had crossed entirely over to the dark side of the spinning wheel, I present some serious progress on Mara. After reading lots of posts over at the Mara KAL in the backwards loop group on ravelry, I decided to modify the ribbing slightly, opting for a k3p2 [...]

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jacob.

4 oz. undyed jacob fleece from Spot Hollow Farm yielded 358 yards of light worsted/heavy dk weight 2-ply (13 wpi). I played around a bit with my spinning technique (long draw, supported long draw) while using my middle whorl, and my yardage confirms that I was spinning more of a woolen yarn. This had a [...]

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soul windows and sunset: skeins!

I am in LOVE. 426 yards of 3-ply, from 4 oz of 90/10 corriedale/nylon from the Spunky Club. LOVE.
This skein made me so excited that I just kept on spinning.

Here’s that cvm, waiting to be plied, along with the resting jacob bobbins.

cvm plied…

hanging to dry…

and skeined.
188 yds of 2-ply, 12 wpi from 2 oz. of [...]

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treadle, treadle, treadle.

I could not stop spinning yesterday. I finished the second bobbin of this gorgeously rich cvm from cosy, and debated plying it right away. Instead, I set this bobbin aside to rest, and dug through my fiber stash.

This is 4 oz. of jacob wool from a farm just outside of town. I picked this up [...]

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400+.

Hooray! My math skills tell me that I have at least 400 yards of 3-ply here (426, to be precise). I’ll figure out wpi once the skein is dry, but I am thrilled! There should be plenty here for a pair of socks.
I gave this an extra long soak because of how energized it seemed. [...]

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dillweed/milkweed.

Dillweed. (In the pickles. These are half-sours, from The Joy of Pickling.)

Milkweed. (Shawl by Laura Chau.) I’m only 8 rows in, but I’ve decided that although I am way more comfortable with written directions, I’m going all-chart, all-the-time on this one.
I went back to the LYS having the sale yesterday to get a smaller hiyahiya [...]

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hiyahiya.

Whoa. Yesterday I felt compelled to do something about those needles with the other-than-smooth join. They were driving me crazy! The internets told me that a LYS is having a sale on everything this week, so I dropped by to look ONLY at needles. I was debating between 12 and 16 inch addis, and the [...]

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