My fiber friends have aptly noted that I have not posted to my blog for quite some time. Life has been busy! Knitting, spinning, a little weaving, tapestry weaving, retreats, camping.....Ah life is good.
The sock (you notice I said THE sock) There is only one at the
moment, but alas, it is done. The other half of the roving will be spun up next week at the Destin Spin-In, so I should have the other sock soon.
On the other hand, I knitted up two pair of gloves for Christmas. My sweet college daughter decided she needed gloves. The child was seriously considering purchasing leather gloves. GIRL! didn't your mama teach you better? She honestly thought it would be lots of trouble to make the fingers. I selected some gorgeous rose-grey alpaca I purchased from my Canadian friend, Tricia; blended it with a small amount of natural brown wool I picked up from Margrett at SWIC retreat last year and started spinning.
I wasn't sure I'd have enough spun up for the finished product by Christmas time, so I grabbed some alpaca yarn I had in my stash and knitted up a glove. I had forgotten how fast gloves knit up. Okay, so now put down the commercial yarn glove and get back to spinning the alpaca. Christmas Eve I was knitting the remaining glove while driving to Denham Springs delivering gifts for the grandkids. I didn't quite get finished with the right hand in time, so Karen got the completed left glove with an I. O. U. for the right hand on Christmas morn! I did finish the right hand before she left on Tuesday morning, so she went home with a completed pair. Then I had to finish my right glove with the commercial yarn. Both sets turned out nicely and keep our hands toasty when it gets cold enough in Louisiana to wear gloves!
The sock (you notice I said THE sock) There is only one at the
moment, but alas, it is done. The other half of the roving will be spun up next week at the Destin Spin-In, so I should have the other sock soon.On the other hand, I knitted up two pair of gloves for Christmas. My sweet college daughter decided she needed gloves. The child was seriously considering purchasing leather gloves. GIRL! didn't your mama teach you better? She honestly thought it would be lots of trouble to make the fingers. I selected some gorgeous rose-grey alpaca I purchased from my Canadian friend, Tricia; blended it with a small amount of natural brown wool I picked up from Margrett at SWIC retreat last year and started spinning.
I wasn't sure I'd have enough spun up for the finished product by Christmas time, so I grabbed some alpaca yarn I had in my stash and knitted up a glove. I had forgotten how fast gloves knit up. Okay, so now put down the commercial yarn glove and get back to spinning the alpaca. Christmas Eve I was knitting the remaining glove while driving to Denham Springs delivering gifts for the grandkids. I didn't quite get finished with the right hand in time, so Karen got the completed left glove with an I. O. U. for the right hand on Christmas morn! I did finish the right hand before she left on Tuesday morning, so she went home with a completed pair. Then I had to finish my right glove with the commercial yarn. Both sets turned out nicely and keep our hands toasty when it gets cold enough in Louisiana to wear gloves!
2 comments:
Yeah!! So glad to see you blogging again. And this year we have lots of cold, damp glove-wearing (and wool sock-wearing) weather in Louisiana. Lucky us. Happy spinning and fiber petting/adopting (someone has to give that fur a good home) at Destin.
Can't wait to see your links. I will check back to see where you will send me.
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