There has been spinning and knitting though. First up, I've plied close to half of the Terminus, as seen here on the niddy noddy.
Close up on the extreme thinness of this yarn (so proud of myself).
And skeined up. It's about 160 yards at this point. Jut gotta keep plugging away....
To stick with the spinning, I decided to reward myself for making it through half of the Terminus by letting myself play with some other fiber. I watched the video of how to "ply on the fly" and gave it a whirl with this Mountain Colors 100% Targhee in the colorway Alpine.
I'm going for a DK to worsted weight yarn and I think I'm doing pretty well with it. The technique is a bit fiddle and I feel like all thumbs at times, but practice makes perfect.
Not too shabby, if I do say so myself. Alright, now we move on to the recent acquisitions. Saturday after work, I swung by KotS and Kate had gotten this in:OMG! So very amazing and wonderful and pretty. Had to have it. What is it? 8 oz. of BFL from Frabjous Fibers in Redwood Forest. Drool. Yeah, had to move it away from certain knitting/spinning pals on Tuesday night because they were about to felt it with their drooling.
Got this in the mail the other day, it's Merino Wool Top hand painted by ForestFiberWorks on Etsy in Fallen Leaves. I found in on one of the first chilly fall days we had and wanted some spinning project that would fall-ish. It's very nice.
Onto knitting. I cast on for the Serpentine Mitts by Miriam Felton last week to have something easy to knit at SnB. Finished knitting the first one (but for the thumb) on the bus ride out to Conneaut on Friday night. Did the thumb and what not Saturday evening. Love it.
Cast on the second one last night. If you'll recall this yarn is the Sheep Shop Yarn Meagan got my for my birthday. It's fabulous. Need to hurry and finish because it's turned cold here in NE Ohio.As for other knitting, I started this hat as my easy project for the premier of Amazing Race on Sunday (more about that in a separate post). It's the Kurbis Hat pattern. Very quick and easy, and adorable to boot. Finished it last night.
I had made a leaf to attach from a different pumpkin hat pattern I'd seen, but it ended up being way too big for this hat. Wanna know the best part about this hat? It's the first toddler/child hat I've made that doesn't fit me!! Success at last!One more acquisition to show, I ordered a bunch of stuff from KnitPicks (they were having an amazing sale on their sock size DPN set, I just couldn't resist) most I won't show because it's boring yarn for presents, but this I will:
It's their new sock yarn "Imagination" all of the colorways are named after fairy tale characters. It's been on back order since they debuted it (I want at least 2 other colorways that won't be in for another month). This is Wicked Witch (oh so appropriate for this time of year). It's amazing. It's a 50% merino, 25% alpaca (mmm alpaca), 25% nylon blend. Love it. And you really can't beat the price. Now if I could just find enough hours in the day to turn it into socks....
