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and the knit goes on…

Posted on | June 17, 2009 | 13 Comments

Sorry.  Lame title, I know. 

I’ve recovered my love of the knit (but my mother’s second sock remains missing) by casting on for a new project – the Hedgerow Coat from IK Fall 2007. 

I decided to start with a sleeve since I didn’t feel like swatching and continued to knit way past the point where it became apparent that this sleeve was going to be way, WAY too long for any normal-sized human being.  I know I’m not the only one who knits on in denial.  What I don’t know is WHY!

It’s 28 inches long.  It will be frogged and I’m not sure I’ll reknit it.  It served its purpose, however, it got me back knitting, so it was time well spent.

Since I was feeling the knit-love, I got busy and finished my Tilly scarf!  (I just now noticed there’s an errata.  I don’t think I’ll even look at it, as I really love the way this scarf turned out and it looks good enough to me!)

This might become a present or I may hoard it for myself.  It’s unbelievably light; I will definitely buy more of this roving!

The spinning continues as well.  This is black BFL from Gale’s Art in her Fruit Salad colorway.  I wanted to spin this differently than I normally spin multicolored roving, so I split the roving in half lengthwise and spun from the end onto two bobbins, then plied them together, hoping the colors would line up in stripes.  They pretty much did, although there is a little barber-poling and I also played with the joins a bit. 

This is what I’m spinning now.  I’m kicking myself for not using the lace flyer (WHY am I afraid of the lace flyer?!?!) but it’s still very fine and also, very slow to spin.  I had dreams of finishing this before Saturday, but I still have 2 oz. to go and do not think that’s going to happen.

Why before Saturday?  Because we’re headed to the beach!  Funny, I did the same thing last year with trying to finish yarn before vacation!  I plan to take my computer along to try and catch up with everyone’s blogs.  If you haven’t had a comment from me recently, know that it isn’t by choice.  My office has now blocked flickr and any “social networking” sites, including blogs on typepad, blogger, and wordpress.  Sigh. 

btw – if you have any ideas for good beach knitting, please share!

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