Knitting on the Rogue River

I can’t help myself. Since I bought the Clover pom pom makers, yep had to have both, I’ve been busy making pom poms. Don’t know what I’ll do with them but they’re fun to look at. Of knitting interest I’ve been making little progress on de Colores and the hubby’s sweater, but have started two [...]

The green socks are done! They only got worked on while riding to and from work or at work during lunch. Since hubby went north I haven’t had much sock knitting time forcing me to knit them during my “other” knitting time. “Other” meaning knitting on my or my husband’s sweaters which are suffering themselves from [...]

This is the end of the Spin to Knit Swap. It would be fun to see what everyone received from the swap and to see what was done with the yarn we all received. Here’s what my secret pal sent for round one, 91 yards of two ply linen. It’s enough to do a washcloth [...]

Here are a couple of samples I knit with the black corriedale and some BFL from another project. Now I want to knit something using these two yarns and this technique at a smaller weight than I have spun up. *Massive sigh* But no, I must use self control and finish the sweater for hubby [...]

I think I’ve finally spun enough of the BFL for this project. There’s still ~200 grams of dyed roving to spin but I’m hoping to spin that for another project. This is the first time I’ve measured and weighed everything before dyeing and spinning. All of the skeins of BFL weigh between 100-105 grams. The [...]

…ready to be gifted. Finished these Monday night. These are a quick knit and a great way to use small skeins of handspun. Sorry I don’t know how many yards but it was less than 150, more than 100. Size 5.0 (US) needles. Edit: Sorry for the skimpy details, and thank you Tamara for pointing [...]

The verdict is still out on these. I really like how indigomuse’s look. If you’re planning on making these head over to her site for a blow by blow replay of her experience knitting these.

More spinning and dyeing for the De Colores sweater. I dyed four 100 gram pieces of BFL for the sweater on Sunday and now have enough. All that’s left is to spin it up along with the rest of Jordan’s fleece. This is 200 grams of Merino that I’ve had for a few years. Another [...]

Done in by the dastardly Techno Knitter. But I’m resting very comfortably. Knit on all you valiant warriors, may the fastest knitter win the prize! Click here to view the socks before their transformation.

Way back when I posted about a sweater that I was knitting – De Colores by Ginger Luter. Well, that sweater didn’t get any further than that post. While I’ve bagged that particular incarnation of the sweater (I was afraid I would look like a giant box of crayons) the project itself has had new [...]