knitting is a hereditary disease

Survived Christmas, hopefully will survive St. Mawes

Posted on 12/27/2007 by Andrea | Comments (0)
Filed under : Knitting, Spinning

Finally. I went to my first knit night at Double Ewe Yarn last night. I've been meaning to go to one of these ever since I learned of the existence of a yarn shop five minutes away from my house, went in a few times to browse/shop, and learned that Kelly the shop owner is super nice.

I was glad there was a smaller group there than normal due to the holiday, because otherwise it would have been overwhelming. As it is, I'm not sure I'm remembering everyone's names correctly. It reminds me of something the teacher of the felted clogs class said; she said she had a hard time remembering names, but she could remember exactly what everyone knit! And I can say there was some lovely knitting last night. A very girly pink dog sweater. A ginormous felted hat (pre-felting), a lovely baby sweater for a soon-to-be-born grandchild, a fun fair isle hat, a top-down child's sweater knit from some self-striping yarn, and the beginning of a green cabled sweater. There were also some delicious caramels. I am definitely going back next week.

As for me, I tried to knit a Calorimetry out of some yarn I spun, but two things went wrong: my yarn was too thick for the pattern, and I realized after I got home that I did my short rows one stitch off so it was getting to be too thick around the middle. This Calorimetry was never meant to be, and I ripped out when I got home, but it was fun while it lasted. I only brought it because I was afraid all my other knitting projects would be too complicated to bring to knit night, and I couldn't bear the idea of working on the neverending Multidirectional Diagonal Scarf of Boredom (I really need to just learn once and for all that I'm not a scarf-knitting sort of person, and almost every one of my scarf projects is doomed to languish).

What I really need to be working on at this point is sorting out the mess that Brad's St. Mawes sweater is in and getting the sleeves to a point where they're wearable. What I would rather be working on is spinning more of this, which I spun on Christmas day:

This is my Dusk colorway that I dyed back in November.

I'm trying to get it to a sock weight. I've never spun anything nearly this fine before, but I'm still not sure if it'll be sock weight by the time I ply it.

This spinning project is going to be my reward to myself once I get Brad's sweater fixed. I want him to be able to actually wear it sometime this winter!