#bfl wool

[nekob00]

I've finally gotten enough confidence to actually... suspend... the drop spindle... like it's supposed to be instead of doing the park and draft method and my yarn is far more even. Turns out gravity's consistency really is useful in using a drop spindle... like it's supposed to be used. I've also noticed i spin more and faster by doing this.

There's still going to be thick and thin spots from earlier but I'm still learning so i don't expect perfection, as much as i want to.

[unfinishedsweaters]

This week’s Thursday pattern is going out later today. Knit a cool (warm), angular shawl from sport/DK yarn for a fairly quick, satisfying project. Use the C1/C2 color layout shown, or C1/C2/C3, or use a different scrap yarn on each colorblock. (Scraps might spare you the regret of cutting your handspun yarn, to be honest.)

I am trying to build Thog Cowl around gauge/yarn versatility (knit it from sock to worsted weight! no gauge, just a yarn you like!); the whole point of it originally was for it to be a pattern I could write very quickly, but I wanted Visual Interest and Less Purling.

I will probably be trying a (large) test knit pool for Thog Cowl! More details/an official call after the weekend when everything is more presentable—it is probably best to see Thog Cowl before you commit to a Thog Cowl of your own—but please stay tuned or follow this tumblr or something. It’s looking like a pretty fun knit, and I’d both like to invite some people to it early and—ideally—be able to showcase the versatility a bit with more projects than I can actually knit in the next week or two. It’d be neat. I reckon we will see.

MEANWHILE, I worked up a kind of editing swatch to help me stop reversing some numbers in my head (it’s been a tough week or two) and remarkably, with all applicable superstitious measures applied (touch wood), it’s both shaping up to be really promising and somehow fulfilling my need to work on something that’s just kind of inventive and freeform, so I’ll be spending at least some time on that as well.

[nekob00]

All that's left of 60 grams of bfl wool that i bought from a ren faire. Once I'm done, i can ply and find out just how much yarn I've got.

I'm still learning, so it's thick and thin and i expect more practice will have more even results but I'm still proud of what I've done.

Btw, the lady i bought the wool from included the sheep names on each bundle. Can we thank Beast for his beautiful brown wool?

[nekob00]

Still not super good at spinning but still learning.

[twosharpmice]

So soft, so smooth!

-Slim