Bellwether

I’m feeling the need to make some Nordic mittens. Even though I have no idea how to do colorwork. But oh, I love the pointy ends of the hands and the different patterns on the palms.
There’s actually a pattern in the current issue of Interweave Knits that I’d like to make [...]

I want this.
For totally obvious reasons, of course.
Purple variegated yarn is coming along nicely. I have about 37 yards total and I’ve started spinning up some more.
Also, I may have hooked Baf on spinning, too. She ordered some fiber and a spindle kit today. Ha.

I picked up a few balls of Cascade 220 Quatro earlier this week at Stitches with Style, my LYS. Quatro is a 4 ply worsted yarn, but each ply is a different color. The color I got is two pinks and two oranges. It’s not a color I would normally get, but [...]

I spun up about 6 inches or so of the purple variegated merino top I got earlier this week–I figure that’s about 7 yards of yarn. (I need to get a ruler so I can measure WPI.)

Here’s a closeup:

It’s awfully pretty, and it spun like a dream. I used the smaller spindle; I [...]

Here’s the first tiny skein of blue yarn:

It’s only about 24 yards, and I’m not hugely happy with it–my tension wasn’t very even when I was spinning it, so there are these thick bits that want to pull apart on me. It’s going to take some used to, the heavier spindle. I’m getting [...]