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All Things Crafty

By Sheetar 15 February 2012 15 February 2012

Spinning and spinning and knitting. Spinning up clay on the wheel, spinning up yarn on a different wheel, and as always, knitting.

Not too long ago, I started going to Cara’s open studio Wednesdays at the Cobb Studio. She’s a wonderful teacher and it’s been an incredible amount of fun getting my hands dirty. I got a quick lesson in throwing clay on a wheel one day when the studio was a little emptier than usual, and I’ve slowly been working on getting better. Just wanted to share a few pieces I’ve made that I’m super happy with so far. The first is a little tea cup. It’s a bit heavy and thick on the bottom, but I absolutely love how the handle came out. The second is a mug with a leaf applied to the side so that you can slip your hand inside and keep your hand warm while you sip on your tea. Unfortunately, I neglected to account for the shrinkage of the clay when it dries, so it came out a little smaller than I expected, but I can still get my fingers inside the little leaf pocket.

For fiber spinning, I’ve spent the last week or so not knitting. I think I may have over-knit recently and my elbow is telling me to take a break. I’ve got two bobbins spun and plied so far, and am working on some 100% silk which is challenging, but AMAZING at the same time. Below, on the left is some superwash merino fiber from Twisted Fiber Art in the colorway, “Maple” and on the right is more superwash merino fiber from PigeonRoof Studios in, “Illuminated Moss.”

Then I have another spun-to-knit project because this month has been all about handspun.

Fiber is from Fiber Optic yarns and is 80% Merino and 20% silk dyed into one big long gradient. The colorway is Gold-Copper-Cinnamon-Espresso.

All spun up! 480 yards, fingering weight, and chain plied to keep the color progression.

Knit into Saroyan! (Ravelry Project Link) The pattern is pretty easy, and the only issue is that it wants to curl up. I thought I had blocked it pretty well, but the garter border at the top still wants to curl under. Other than that, I’m really happy with how this came out and how even the not-so-even handspun knitted up. Can’t wait to wear it out and show it off!

Scarves, Spinning

Sunshine Surf Scarf

By Sheetar 13 March 2009 13 March 2009

This is another one of those great spun-to-finished projects that I love doing.

Roving

The yarn is fingering weight and a three ply. I just divided the roving into three parts that weighed about the same. This is my first three ply since I got the SpinOlution lazy kate and put her to the test. It worked out great and the resulting yarn was so squishy and soft.

The Scarf! It’s longer than I am tall (5’4″) and is soft and puffy and squishy. Orange probably isn’t my favorite of all the colors, but I LOVE how this knitted up and how incredibly soft it is. I decided not to block the scarf since I loved the bubbly and rippled texture that the dropped yarn overs give the fabric. It’s been worn a bunch of times and has gathered a number of compliments.

Pattern: Morning Surf Scarf
Designer: Jackie Erickson-Schweitzer
Needles: US 5 (3.75 mm)
Yarn: Handpun from Crown Mountain Farms superwash merino roving, colorway “Sunshine of your Love”
–Ravelry Project Link–

2009 Knitting, Finished Objects, Resolutions, Scarves

Clapotis and resolutions

By Sheetar 17 January 2009 8 September 2023

First, I have an FO for you. Meg, the dyer at Twisted Fiber Art, does such an incredible job dyeing striping yarns and her colorways are so gorgeous. Plus, the Clapotis pattern is such a great all-purpose scarf pattern and is so easy to adapt to any type of yarn. This one took a little while to finish since I kept it on the needles as my mindless knitting project. I tend to try and keep one easy project on the needles as a travel project to take with me everywhere that I don’t really have to think about or need to refer to a pattern much.

Pattern: Clapotis
Designer: Kate Gilbert
Needles: US 5 (3.75 mm)
Yarn: Twisted Fiber Art Shiny in colorway “Portal”
–Ravelry Project Link–

Now, onto knitting resolutions! The Selfish knitters group on Ravelry have a thread for New Year’s Resolution knitting and Atomic posted some knitting resolutions on her blog too. I decided to post a few resolutions since I’ve had them in my head anyway. I kept it simple on the thread and posted just the first three, but thought about expanding it here and expanding it to include spinning as well.

Clear the WIP queue from last year by the end of the month.
Knit two sweaters this year.
Knit one pair of socks per month – I had thought about doing the 52 pair challenge, but I think that’s a touch too ambitious, especially if I want to work on other projects too.
Spin four ounces of roving per month.
Dye more yarn and roving.
Knit at least one pair of stranded socks.
Finish holiday gift knitting throughout the year instead of all at once in December!
Participate in another test knit.
Work on an original pattern.

I think that gives me plenty to work on. I also want to be a little more careful with my stash acquisitions and either buy on sale, something unique that cannot be found elsewhere, at festivals, or with a specific project in mind. When I started knitting this past may I sort of got out of control and bought everything in sight. It’s time to get a handle on it and knit more, buy less!

Finished Objects, Scarves

Beauty in Repetition

By Sheetar 16 January 2009 8 September 2023

Arguably the easiest knit I’ve ever done and SO beautiful. This took me a whole two days to knit since I could not put it down. I didn’t find one knot in any of the four skeins although there was plenty of vegetable matter throughout. I suppose that’s the big problem I have with Noro – it costs enough that you’d think it would be a quality yarn with no VM. I’m tempted to go and spin up something similar and make another scarf like this since it’s SO gorgeous and so easy to do. The ‘base’ skeins I used were mostly black with some dark blue and green mixed in.. I suppose I could’ve picked better companion skeins or maybe started at different points so that I didn’t get the one really dark patch and the one really light patch, but the beauty of the project is that you never know what’s going to happen with Noro colors. Also, no two scarves can ever EVER be the same since no two skeins of Noro that I’ve ever seen start and end at the same color. That makes these Noro striped scarves like snowflakes, right? 😉

Pattern: Noro Striped Scarf
Designer: Jared Flood
Needles: US 7 (4.5mm)
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden in 264, 246, and 252
–Ravelry Project Link–