WIPs

I feel like I haven’t finished any crafty items lately. I have some very slow going Work-In-Progress projects. I guess I’ve just been a bit preoccupied and scatter brained!

Here’s the sock. I’m not sure how the rest of the sock will stripe because there’s still a green bit in the yarn that have yet to make an appearance (you can see it in the middle of the ball of yarn). I’m making it stripe by alternating yarn pulled out from center and yarn that’s unwrapped from the outside of of the same ball.

And here’s the scarf. It’s about 1/3 of the way done. I’m hoping to make it long-ish. It’s been chilly enough for a scarf lately, but I’m sure that it will be suddenly hot outside should I manage to finish it anytime soon.

And here’s my spinning project, I only get done about few inches a month it seems (because it requires my full attentions, something I rarely have!). I’m making a core-spun yarn (fluffy fiber is spun around the “core” — I’m using cotton crochet thread for this) that has fluffy thick bits and tightly spun thin bits. This technique seems to be quite popular for yarn spun on a spinning wheel, but I searched through the internet for spindle version of the technique and didn’t find anything. It wasn’t too difficult to  figure out how to work it on a spindle but it’s really time consuming process.

Comments

Shana 08-06-2010, 08:25

What do you think of the needles now that you’ve been using them for a while? My sock needles are bent and I’m thinking about replacements.

The handspun yarn is really cool! I’ve never tried that technique before, and certainly not on a spindle — go you!

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Kyoko 08-06-2010, 10:29

I totally LOVE these! I tried using stainless ones too (Hiya Hiya) and those are really slippery and much too blunt. I got a set of bamboo ones some time ago (it was $2.25!!) which I have yet to try out but it looks quite blunt and I’m sure I’ll break them in no time. These ones are really pointy, but despite that they are metal, they aren’t too slippery (yarn glides on it, but stitches don’t fall off — it feels like the body of the needle is micro-textured). If I were a billionaire, I’d buy the entire set right now, but since I’m not…I’ll be knitting with these 2.5mm ones a lot in the near future

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Kyoko 08-06-2010, 10:51

It’s from this shop by the way: http://www.signatureneedlearts.com/

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