Persistent Knitter

Well; I upgraded the blog to the new version. So far all seems as it should. I need to re-enable a few of the plugins I had (I don’t remember what they did for the most part; but I put ‘em there for a reason). Feel free to let me know if you see something out of whack to nancy AT persistentknitter DOT com.

Update: (So far it seems like Categories are whacked. ugh. we’ll see what we can do with that)

Further update: It seems I had to manually reenter my Categories into the database.  Looks like we’re better now.

Thanks to everyone for their wonderful words on my red/black seawool. I’m trying to knit up a swatch with it; but haven’t settled on anything yet. My current project is now this:

This is a bobbin mostly full of singles of bamboo/merino. Spun worsted; I’ll do a two ply that will come out thicker than my normal yarn.

I’ve been working on this sea wool forever it seems. I started it on my Schacht Matchless, which is now my home wheel. So I couldn’t work on it at my spin-ins; and only when I was at home and wasn’t doing a zillion other things. I had finished the first two bobbins fairly quickly; but the third took a bit of time.

before:

after:

I finally plowed through it a week or so ago and did the plying last weekend. I did a 3 ply; when my original idea with this was a 2 ply lace weight. I decided I would like the three ply better. Plied up, it’s fingering weight, and fairly bouncy. I’m pretty pleased with how the colors distributed themselves. I tried to capture the variety in this picture by laying all three skeins out next to each other.

Lime and Violet have a blog that lists cool stuff called The Daily Chum.   (They also do a really cool podcast). My Catoptrical sock design made the list. WOOHOO!! I’m doing the happy dance :)

See the post here.

ca·top·tri·cal: “formation of images by mirrors”

The latest sock pattern I have designed. You can purchase it at The Knit Foundry pattern page and you can see it at Ravelry here. Huge thanks to my test knitters: Marta and Marie

After a class with Amelia from the Bellwether, I am much more confident in my spindle spinning. I took my spindle along with me to the fireworks on the 4th of July to pass the time while waiting for it to get dark.

I couldn’t wait to ply it, so I plied it on my Lendrum yesterday at my group’s spin-in. A quick wash in the sink and this is 40 yards of camel/silk. Here is a an up close shot with a dime to show you size (it’s lace weight) :