One Crazy Fiber Lady

I’ve been making progress on my Not-so-blue Boatneck Bluebell. It has made for decent train knitting as it is still small and not particularly brain intensive at the moment. I’ve found I can read while I’m knitting it. What am I reading now?: Screamfree Parenting: The Revolutionary Approach to Raising Your Kids by Keeping Your Cool. The SMC multiple mom’s group that I belong to formed a book club of sorts to discuss various parenting books. This is the current one and is actually a pretty decent book. But I digress, here’s the sweater as of this morning’s commute.

In this picture you can finally see the heathery-ness of the yarn with the bits of pink tossed in with the orange.

I’m one round short of finishing the first “clue” in the Orkney Pi KAL with the second clue published today. As promised I have a picture of it for you. I couldn’t quite get the real color in this photo, but for those who have ridden on the newer burgundy NJ Transit train cars, I noticed that the yarn is a dead on match for the seats. Nice. Gave my eye some tricky bits this evening while I was working on it Anyway, you won’t be seeing too many pictures of the growing blob as blob pictures are pretty boring. If I can get sections spread out and good shots, I will.

This weekend’s super fast fiber to yarn to hat project reminded me of how much I like to knit with my own handspun. I don’t do it very often and I’m not entirely sure why. Possibly because I go through phases with spinning where I either do a lot or very little. Another problem is that I tend to buy fiber in bulk which then takes me forever to finish up so that I can knit it. The final factor that I can see is that the yarn itself is a finished product in my mind. A lot of what I spin isn’t destined to be anything but yarn. I rarely spin with an item in mind (this last project was an exception as I intended that from the outset). I really do have to do it more often. Towards that end, I’ve taken to spinning on an almost nightly basis and am a couple of hours away from completing the singles for the vest project I started shortly after Rhinebeck. More on that one another night.

Interestingly enough, the last items I made from my own handspun is this pair of socks from some Spunky Club fibers that I did most of at the June gathering of the Jersey Spinners! I guess I need to get together with these gals more often!

Craft on!