Tag Archives: purple

Dewberry Progress

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The Dewberry Hat is zooming along. Imagine that! It’s only bulky yarn on US 10 needles, lol.

This is a 100 gram skein and I need to weigh where I am at. I think I will save the 15 or 20 grams to do the ribbing? I will knit until the yarn chicken gods yell at me to stop and then cast off in ribbed pattern.

I am keeping a stitch marker on the beginning of round. And I was too lazy to find a big enough one to fit on these large needles so I am clipping it to the row and just moving it up once in awhile.

Happy Knitting!!

Medusa Hat Progress

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It’s officially back to school season and activities are flying fast around here. So much so that I blew through the folded brim and into the stockinette of my Medusa Hat.

The speckles in this yarn are EVERYTHING that I love right now. Those little flecks I think add some much interest to vanilla hat. I need another 3 inches of hat and then I can start decreases.

My conundrum is for my next hat do I start working on scrappy hats with leftovers or do I wind up some of the worsted yarn I got at SSK? I am still finding my mojo drifting to worsted weight hats as they are quick satisfying and do not require any mental bandwidth.

Happy Knitting!!

Cast On: Medusa Hat

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I decided to dust off my tennis shoes and explore downtown Nashville while at SSK. I walked around the campus of Vanderbuilt and explored Music Row.

I ended up on a rooftop bar with my newest cast on and an ice cold beer. An adorable young musician was playing acoustic guitar covers and some of his originals. I sat for an hour or so and enjoyed my beverage and got my new project started.

This is my last skein of Malabrigo from my Yarn Barn trip and I am making yet another Rachelle recipe hat. This is 88 stitches on US 8s. This version will have a folded stockinette brim. This color is called Medusa so I am super originally calling this my Medusa Hat.

Love the memories that will be attached to this one!

Spotted Circus Finished Bobbin

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I’m slowly getting back to my spinning. It’s not been as enticing as the knitting. I did manage to finish my first bobbin of singles for my Spotted Circus 2-ply.

These ended up spinning VERY fine and thin. So this could be very interesting when I ply together. This project I did design to be a 2-ply. All of that depends on me finishing the second bobbin of course.

For now, I am just going to delight in the pretty!! Happy Spinning!!

Spinning Sunshine

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The oppressive heat has finally broke for a brief minute here in Kansas so I broke out my dusty AF wheel. I still have my Spotted Circus fiber on the wheel from this past June.

I got several hours of peaceful spinning in whilst watching PB splash about and throw reusable water balloons. We literally had to drag her in for bath and bedtime at the end of the day. I managed to get almost all of the first bobbin spun up.

Duke even got in on the action and got VERY wet by getting too close to PB’s splash zone.

Nothing beats the last rays of sunshine in the day and some simple family fun. Happy Spinning!!

Finished Purple Floof

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As promised, I let the fates decide. I had my children roll dice. Even numbers meant I would split the singles and make a 2-ply and the odd numbers meant chain ply. Numbers came up odd so it was chain ply!!

I don’t have a catchy name for this. I have been calling it purple floof spinning. My brain waves aren’t catching on to the theme here, lol. This skein still needs soaked and thwacked so I measure it. I’m guessing its somewhere between light and heavy worsted?

Now I just need the executive function to dig out my washing supplies from my disaster of a home office. Happy Spinning!!

Now What!?

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I have a four ounces of fiber singles all spun on to a single bobbin, now what?!

This is a sparkly fiber that is a mix of merino, rambouillet and sparkle. I just spun this fiber short forward draw and kind of let it do what it wanted with minimal changing by me. So now do I wind off these singles and split into two bobbins? Do I chain ply everything back on itself?

My work world has been incredibly stressful this summer and I just took on a HUGE full time project on top of the two FTE’s worth of work I already do. So I am decisioned out!! I legitimately may roll dice to decide this one, lol!

Happy Spinning!!

Let’s Spin Some Targhee

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My spinning mojo continues unabated! After finishing a bunch of smaller 4 ounce bats, I decided to try spinning from a braid again. I pulled some Targhee top from Fiber Love Diary from my stash to spin. I even took my wheel outside to take advantage of the cooler spring temperatures.

I undid the braid and split in half by length so I could spin on to two bobbins again for plying. This fiber is soft to the hand but not slippery. I don’t think this spinning will take very long I can feel the sirens call of this project.

Happy Spinning!!

FO Friday: Windowpanes

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My Windowpanes is dry, seamed and ready for a cold wind!

Pattern: Windowpanes by Jill Ramos (Ravelry link)

Yarns: K-Zip Knits Waterfront Worsted in Sterling and Blacklight

Needles: US9s

This cowl turned out to be a decent size. It is on the smaller side and I didn’t gauge swatch so I’m not surprised. But its warm, soft and very serviceable. I am still deciding if this will be a keeper or a gift.

Happy Knitting!!

A Plying Spree

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My wheel was empty after finishing my Fusion BFL skeins so I decided to ply up my first couple of set of singles. My purple singles and teal singles were WELL rested and ready for plying.

I used my ball winder to wind both singles into center pull cakes to ply end to end. My spinning teacher recommended this for me based on the twist/singles she saw me making. So I just decided to give it a whirl and I learned a lot.

First up, I could really tell I spun the purple singles first. They had much more thick and thin spots with plenty of unspun bits. That is compared to my teal singles that got more consistent thanks to practice. And both skeins had some overspun spots where it made plying extra hard because the yarn kinked back up on itself.

At the end of the day I have two filled bobbins with almost finished yarn. Next up for those yarn babies is bath and whack! Happy Spinning!!