June 25th, 2008 at 11:11 am (not-cph)
I haven’t blogged in forever; too busy; too tired; too whatever. This is what I’ve been knitting. It’s the back of my not-CPH sweater. I started with the idea of doing the Central Park Hoodie. Then a friend sent me a link to a “viking cable” version which I loved.
I liked that; but when I got down to casting on, and based on the yarn I wanted to use (which was thinner) and my size (wider), I decided my cables should be bigger than the ones she had to match the scale of the sweater. So then I spent 3 days going through books to find cables. Finally I created a chart with my cables in it, and designed my own sweater. So it’s not the CPH and not the viking CPH, but something like it with cables.
** picture taken while on a road trip to Black Sheep Gathering. see more pictures here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/persistentknitter/sets/72157605803772503/
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June 11th, 2008 at 3:12 pm (spinning)
Remember this?
I own a lendrum again! I sold that one in the picture because I just wasn’t using it at all. My spinning group didn’t meet very often and when they did; I liked to have my Schacht with me. Plus it was the wheel I loaned to other people.
So this weekend – One of the women in my spinning group had decided she liked her Little Gem better than her Lendrum and I got a great deal on her barely used 2 year old Lendrum. So then I was looking for a buyer for my Ashford Joy (Single Treadle) and another woman in my spinning group who owns a Matchless was looking for a more portable wheel. I hooked her up with Joy; she hooked me up with some cash, and now I only have two wheels again. Basically the two you see in the picture.
Pretty funny!
I’ll still be on the lookout for an Ashford Joy Double Treadle used, cuz that’s a really sweet little travel wheel and one I’d take with me if I had to fly somewhere.
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