Knit Sisters

Well, my dear husband returns home today, and I must say that I will be very glad to have him back.  Despite the fact that I practically pushed him out the door myself, I missed him quite a bit.  (It’s hard to get to sleep in that big bed all by yourself.  That’s all I have to say.)

After reading Ellen’s post about dating, it made me feel a little bit better about the fact that I scarcely dated at all before I got married to Rob.  I was 20 years old when we married–that’s pretty young.  I mean, if I had a 20-year old daughter right now, I would be horrified if she told me that she was getting married.  But, to give my 20-year-old self her due, I did make a good choice.  Not that our marriage has always been easy, but here we are, 15 years later, still together.

Yes, but, I hear you say, how does this relate to your knitting and spinning?  Well, the salient point is that he still has the digital camera, so this post is likely to be somewhat photo-poor.

And how did I spend my lonely weekend? 

1.  Working on “Sarah’s Simple Summer Sweater” pattern.  This has turned out to be a challenging enterprise.  It reminds me of when I used to do recipe testing and editing:  you have to think in a very logical, step-by-step kind of way.  That’s not the way I usually think, so it’s a stretch for my li’l ol’ brain.  But fun.

2.  Spinning on the handpainted rovings.  (See Friday’s post for picture.)  I have one of them all spun, and am now working on the other one.

3.  Playing around with this:

 

This is some handspun superwash that I just went a little crazy with when I was spinning.  By that I mean that I just spun it up, without any kind of plan.  I bought the roving here, in the same big box that the roving that became Ellen’s handspun sock yarn was in.  (Again, see Friday’s post for pix.)  There was red, and then there was some light blue.  In a nutty moment, I combed the red and blue together, spun it up, and turned out the yarn you see above.  It’s sort of a worsted/heavy-worsted weight, and I’ve already knitted this up once, a few weeks ago, into a scarf which I promptly ripped out.  The needles I used were too small, there wasn’t quite enough yarn, it was a little too wide, blah, blah, blah.

So, I picked it up again this weekend and tried out a few little things.  Tried out 4 different stitch patterns, to be exact.  And what does the yarn look like now?  Well, it looks like two tidy balls of yarn.  (I would take a picture, but, you see, I don’t have the camera.)  This yarn has yet to tell me what it wants to be; I want it to be a scarf, but it’s not cooperating.  Upon consideration, I think what it’s telling me is that it wants to be gifted to someone else.  (This is a backhanded way of being generous–make this uncooperative yarn someone else’s problem–so there.)

4.  Knitting on this and then ripping it out:

 

I decided that if I want to do this stitch pattern in a full-scale stole (which I think I do), I really don’t want to burn out on it by using it for a scarf.

5.  Hanging out with Harvey.

6.  Watching, for approximately the 20th time,  The Lord of the Rings trilogy.

7.  Knitting intermittently on this:

I haven’t decided if this is going to be for Rob or not.  If it’s not, then I’m going to put a beaded fringe on either end.  If it is, then no beaded fringe, ’cause beaded fringe doesn’t seem very manly.  Opinions, anyone?  (Once I cut the fringe, there’s really no going back.)

See ya’ll Thursday, when new photos will be forthcoming!

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