New Project….
Special shout out to Snigs for voting for this one….she knows me well apparently!
You see, I already have something in mind.
I noticed calorimetry at knitty, and noticed many people were making it, but it did not really catch my eye. Until I saw this one, in person. Well gosh it looks cute on her, and she says she wears it all the time. So I got some details about it and went home thinking…..what a perfect project for handspun!
Well for those of you following along, you know I have been having a blast spinning up this merino/tencil blend. I had intended to leave it unplied for laceweight singles. Trouble is, there were some overspun places that happened while getting used to spinning a new fiber. I realized it would need to be plied anyhow, and that also gave me a chance to try out my new niddy noddy! Yes, Nick gave me quite the surprise as he sent it to me even though we had agreed that to save on shipping, I could wait until I next visited the east coast.
I had been unconvinced that a niddy noddy would actually be faster than winding the plied yarn onto my fantastic and wonderful yarn swift. But it was WAY faster! Amazing!
In the end, I had a lovely skein of DK weight yarn for the calorimetry which I plan on casting on for very shortly!
Ooooh! Fun!
I’m thinking that I did mine with 100 stitches on size 6 needles - after doing it as the directions laid out (it was huuuuge - guess who didn’t swatch?). You might want to do it with the standard directions since its a DK weight, but remember that it looks HUUUUGEer at the start when you’re knitting straight vs. once you start the short rows.
Comment by Corrie — January 6, 2008 @ 8:53 pm
You have spun up some delicious yarn Ms.Shells!! But of course the casting on is going to wait until B’s sweater is done…and done first. ;-D
Comment by savasana — January 6, 2008 @ 9:15 pm
I think I am going to try your revisions Corrie, our gauge is often similar and there are certainly thinner areas in this yarn! I am hoping to have enough left over for a pair of fetching too!
Sav….I cannot promise that
It was mystic waters I worked on tonight, finished clue one, finally!
Comment by shellssells — January 6, 2008 @ 9:43 pm
yarn is looking great and I’m glad the noodle is working out. Now put it down and finish the clap!
Comment by NickBee — January 6, 2008 @ 9:45 pm