single minded knitting focus ends up paying off
Each Wednesday, I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
Stick a fork in it, the knitting of my winter coat is done! I finished Monday night,
and then I promptly started another sweater.
I fall in and out of love affairs with spinning. Sometimes all I want to do is spin, and sometimes I have absolutely no interest in sitting at the wheel, or picking up the spindle.
Last weekend Gauge & Tension (a popup yarn shop out in Brooklyn) had a spindling demo by fiber artist Robyn Love, that totally rekindled my love of spinning. So I used it to bribe myself into finishing the knitting on the coat.
And I also used spinning to “encourage” myself to finish up a couple half finished blog posts (including the one about my pirate skirt.)
single minded knitting focus
Each Wednesday, I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on.
Single minded knitting focus, gets pretty boring after awhile.
My winter coat is all I’m working on.
Some other ideas are brewing in the background, but as far as crafting goes, this is it. No spinning. No sewing. No other knitting.
I put the body together, have picked up for the sleeves, and am halfway through sleeve number 1. This means it’s absolutely no-longer a portable knitting project, and while I knit, it’s doing double duty as a blanket.
My plan is to close up part of the side-seams & underarm seams, once I get both sleeves halfway knit. I’m doing this so I can get a better understanding of the proportions of the sweater/coat.
I’ll get some better photos and write a more in-depth post, once I close up the side seams and it stops looking like a grey alpaca blob.
all alpaca, all the time
I post little snippets about what’s happening, and what I’m working on, each Wednesday.
I’ve been working on two projects, knitting my alpaca coat, and spinning some alpaca yarn.
On my alpaca coat, I’m about 3/4 of the way done with the second front, and kind-of-sort-of hoping against hope that I’ll be able to start the first sleeve this weekend.
Awhile back a friend gave me, what I thought was 8 ounces of alpaca fiber, but that turned out to be 12. I started spinning it back in July, and that ball there is the first three ounces of fiber – spun on my drop spindle.
After getting through 3 ounces I realized that spinning the rest of this on a drop spindle with actually take forever, so a friend (the same one who gave me the fiber) is letting me spin the rest on her miniSpinner. It’s like magic, and I kind of might want one. I’ll try to remember pictures next time I go over to use it.
That’s all I’m working on. Spinning and knitting, all alpaca, all the time.
