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Posted on | December 1, 2006 | 4 Comments

I said I wasn’t going to do any Christmas knitting, other than finishing two projects I’ve already started.  But…I think my sister would really like a pair of Fetching mitts, I have the yarn in my stash and they’re such a quick and satisfying knit that well, I’m over halfway done!

Last week I was lamenting about what to do with 120 yards of dyed handspun in a colorway I could maybe repeat in the year 2078 IF I got lucky, and Jen suggested that I knit a moebius.  I looked for patterns, but everything required much more yardage than I had, so I thought, ‘I don’t need no stinkin pattern.’  (you see where this is going?)  I also thought, ‘I don’t need no stinkin gauge swatch.’  I cast on 110 stitches, joined in the round being careful to TWIST the stitches for a change, and made this:

It will soon be frogged.  Starting the pattern on the second row was a bad idea – it curls horribly.  Also, 110 stitches is way too much, it hangs down like a saggy necklace and not the soft cowl I envisioned.  The colors are perfect for my winter coat, though, so I will definitely be re-knitting this very soon, perhaps with this pattern (scroll down).  But I doubt that I’ll do a gauge swatch.  I have to have a little danger in my life, ya know.

I don’t know if any of you read Maryse’s blog, but some time ago she issued a dye challenge, and I took her up on it.  In my usual fly-by-the-seat-of-my-pants manner, I dyed up some roving for her, sent it off, did not take any notes about amounts of dye and water used, and then tried to recreate it.  The colors I got were much more muted, but I spun them up and hoped they would create stripes.  I thought if I split the roving in equal parts and spun them in the same sequence, the colors would line up and voila!  I’d have striped yarn.  Ha.  No, I didn’t weigh the roving before and after I split it, I used the scientific Eyeball Method.  Guaranteed to fail, every time.  But – I *heart* this yarn more than any I’ve ever made!  I think Mack the Cat likes it too.

And the close up

God, I love this yarn.  Love it!  It’s a bit over-plied and I’ll probably have to weight the skein when I set the twist, but I don’t care.  190 yards, Brown Sheep mills ends.  I think I’ll make a hat and use what’s leftover for mitten cuffs or something. 

 

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