I decided that if we were facing Winter potentially in lockdown that I would work on tidying up my studio and the area in the dining room where my loom and spinning wheel live. I’m still at that awful stage where things look worse before they get better, but I will post a couple of photos when they look more presentable!
I’m also trying to finish both some knitting and spinning UFOs and trying to use up some hand spun and leftover yarns, to make space for a few new books and to get some of my larger sweater quantities of fibre that I dyed up recently into bins of their own to protect them. I spun up these rolags:
The rolags above, became these singles, which I hope to ply, maybe next week:
The light is atrocious right now here in Illinois, I need to look out my project light when I get everything dusted and organised! I also worked on two pairs of hand spun socks over the last couple of weeks. The are definitely rustic and a bit lumpy bumpy in places as they are relatively early stash, but I feel like socks are a useful project for these yarns. I had less than 5g left after Kitchenering the toes of the brown socks! The 1 st pair were just me trying to knit socks from memory using a simple traditional Guernsey/Gansey stitch pattern called Marriage lines – you can’t really see it because the yarn didn’t have enough stitch definition, I was also trying a forethought heel and a short row heel for the first time.
The second brown pair are the Unity pattern by Niina Tanskanen, which comes from the lovely Laine 52 Weeks of Socks book, this is my first pair from the book and I can see me making many more pairs over the next few years. I have lots of single hanks of yarn – too many, really.
