Accountability Time, FO, WIP and Mail

/ LDSVenus

I decided it’s time to do this. The dishcloth is one I have worked on for a while because it’s my mindless knit and I only work on it when I’m bored doing laundry at the laundromat or in a car doing some waiting. It’s the grandma’s favorite discloth pattern, you can find it on Ravelry. I use Sugar and Cream, Stripes, this color was Country Stripes and a size 5 needle. I knit a little looser than most so I generally go down one needle size but for this pattern I go down 2 sizes.

The next two pictures are wips (works in progress for my non knitter friends). The hat is one of the hats for warmth I do for the shelter. I like to use the Hobby Lobby yarn I Love This Yarn. It’s a worsted yarn and I like the stripes this makes on a hat. This color number 424 Green/Turquoise/Red. The diagonal scarf was a scarf-a-long I started with a good friend several years ago. She was killed in an auto accident and so I work this scarf off and on as my brain is ok with it. I’m on the 2nd skein, it’s also a mindless knit project. I don’t know where I got the pattern but it’s very easy. Because you do the increase and decrease on one row and just knit the next row, I put a progress keeper on the right side (increase/decrease row) so I remember to increase and decrease :P.

The next picture is a wip spinning project, this fiber is Pop Rox from Camaj Fiber Arts. Almost done with the first bobbin. I thought maybe I would spin all of it on one bobbin and then chain ply but I don’t think I will be able to get the other half on there. On the side of the bobbin, I laid out the rest of this half of the fiber for you to see, then I have another bobbins worth. So I will go ahead and make this a fractal spin, it’s going to my eye dr, who is a knitter, for her daughter a hat. 🙂

The next two pictures are things I bought for myself for Valentine’s day :P. The fiber was something that I didn’t need at all but when I saw it I thought oh my gosh look at those colors! I bought it from Fiber Love Diary I got the last one in this color, it’s a gray BFL base dyed over, color is called Dark Prism. I loved the jewel tones.

The next item was something I needed but had put off a long time getting because it not cheap for the bulky flyer and 2 extra bobbins (the flyer comes with one bobbin) and tax and shipping. I don’t really spin bulky yarn but I needed something that would hold more than 4 ozs for plying. 2 ozs on each bobbin (you can see my reg bobbin on my wheel in the 4th picture) when plied together is over full on the reg bobbin for anything over a fingering weight otherwise I’m stuck just spinning up to 4 ozs of fiber. I have also wanted a Wooly Winder, but could only get one, and I can get by without the Wooly Winder, it just makes things easier, but I needed a flyer with a bigger bobbin more, sigh. Next time :P. I forgot to say I bought the bulky flyer for my Kromski Polonaise at Yarn Barn in Kansas.

We are getting snow tonight, the weatherman said a trace to 2 inches but he was leaning toward the 2 inches, dang we just got all our snow from before melted. Oh well, it’s still winter, I’ll live, spring is almost here!!!

15 thoughts on “Accountability Time, FO, WIP and Mail”

    • She will, but sometimes working on it makes me sad, but it does bring back memories of Harry Potter Marathons and popcorn!

      I gotta stop buying fiber until I get some of what I have spun up LOL.

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  2. I have to say, to me, a non-spinner, it’s some kind of magic that blobs of fiber turn into such beautiful yarn! Every time I get new yarn now, I think about your blobs, and now especially Pop Rocks and wonder what it looked like before! 

    I’m looking forward to seeing what your new blobs turn into since they are already beautiful!!!

    I hope you new storm was a bust 😉

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    • The storm was just a trace so I was happy and we are suppose to get back up to 50 this week lol.

      You should pick up spinning, it’s something you can put down and come back to later (if you can tear yourself away from it) and it is very relaxing with the rhythm of the treadling and the softness of the fiber going through your fingers. Pure zen! Some people like the spindles and they are a good way to learn how to draft the fiber and they can be addictive too, but I like the wheels because they are faster lol, however they are a more costly choice.

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    • Sometimes it does, sometimes it makes me sad. Time will help, took me about 5 years after my mom’s death before I could enjoy the memories, I couldn’t even face mother’s day. Now when I miss her I can sit and watch sports on the TV (she loved sports) while I knit (she taught me to knit) and feel like she is sitting there with me.

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  4. The fiber does look amazingly pretty!! If I were a spinner, it’d definitely be a joy to use. And hurrah for getting yourself a bulky flyer! I suppose a lot of options and spinning fun have opened up now!

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    • I’ve been spinning since about 2004 and this is my first bulky bobbin. They really are for spinning bulky yarns which I don’t, but they also hold more yardage so that is what I was wanting so I could chain plying to keep colors together rather than have them ply on other colors, like I do for fractal spinning.

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