sPitoooey
January 14th, 2005 at 1:49 pm (uncategorized)
I just have to say I looooooove doing the splicing thing to join in new yarn. I won’t call it spit splicing because I try as hard as I can to find water to do the splicing instead of spit. I know that takes all the fun out of it, but hey - it’s a bit gross the other way.
I was working on TNS yesterday and a friend was present when I found I had to cut out a knot in the yarn (for $10/ball you’d think there would be NO knots in it). I gasped in annoyance, and got out the scissors, cut away. My friend asked "now what do you do?". I said "this!", worked the splice magic, and voila seamless yarn.
He seemed kind of impressed and asked how it works. I got to pull out my sheepy-knowledge and explained how wool fibers has little scales on it, and the friction + water makes it felt and stick to itself. It really is cool, and is almost enough to make me want to work with non superwash yarn more. But not this particular stuff, it’s too hard to knit with.
Progress?
I did get past inserting the pockets last night. Now I have to do some more calculations to figure out where the neckline decreases need to fall before getting too much further. I’m probably about 1/3 of the way done with the fronts though.
virginia stiponovich said,
January 23rd, 2005 at 12:13 pm
I’ve been lusting for some fixation sock yarn, and purple is my color…