Nov 22, 2020
Finished Objects
Erica
The shawl!!!! Erica was so excited to finish her Half Pi
Shawl. In Episode 1 she was swatching for this shawl! Erica has
knit a few small shawls, but really wanted a really nice big shawl!
She switched between Signature Needle Arts and Chiaogoo circular
needles. Erica does love her Signature Needle Arts needles, but
found the join on these difficult once the shawl got large and
heavy. Erica would love to hear listeners tips for knitting
from center pull balls. Do you knit from the center or the
outside?
Michelle
Michelle has been going through
some of her older hand spun yarn and setting the twist in it. She
was particularly bad about wet setting a couple years ago and the
wash is helping refresh the yarn as well. Some was balled up
already so it had to be put back into skeins. She finally got the
opportunity to use this beautiful Amish style swift that was made
by a friend of her Mom's and gifted to Michelle.
Works in Progress
Michelle
Michelle skirted and washed the
fleeces she got from shearing day at Queso Cabeza farm. They are
taking a long time to dry out in her garage in the cold
weather.
Erica
Erica seems to have taken Michelle's spinning mojo, oops!
Erica is back to spinning the Organic Polwarth in the Fractured
Dawn colourway from Crafty
Jax. Erica purchased 3 braids and decided to spin a 3 ply yarn.
Fractured Dawn is a random colourway so each braid starts with a
different color. So Erica split each braid into 3 carefully put
each split into a ball, then put all 3 balls from the same braid in
a bag together. Erica is spinning a single from braid one, then
braid two, then braid three and will start over again to make up
for not being able to randomize the singles when plying to help
distribute any variance in the singles spinning.
Erica is prepping the drawloom for her
next warp. This will be a 4" warp sett at 60 epi (2/dent in a
30 epi reed). She is using the last of the Treenway
Silks Bordello color yarn from her previous project. This
will be woven into trim to use for her husband's garb, and probably
some for herself too.
Socks
Erica currently has socks on the needle for everyone in her
family! She is extending her previous sock study by trying toe up
socks again and testing out different short row methods. She has
cast on the second sock for Oli's second pair of socks. For this
sock she used the toe up Ann Budd short row toe method.
She cast on the first sock for
TJ's second pair of socks. For TJ's sock Erica tried out the toe up
German short row. Erica thinks TJ, yet again, picked the best color
of all of us.
Erica also cast on for her second pair of socks using the toe
up wedge toe, which she was the very first type of toe construction
she tried and did not initially fall in love with this method. She
is enjoying testing out new methods and looking forward to finally
settling on a method that she really likes.
Finally, Erica bought the book Knitting Magic and plans to
knit a Weasley Jumper for each member of her family. She started
with TJ's jumper that is in Harrisville
Highland Black and he chose Periwinkle for
the contrasting color for his initial.
