Bellwether

Falling Leaves Progress

Originally uploaded by eilatan.

This is how far I’ve gotten on Jessimuhka’s lovely Falling Leaves pattern from the Fall 2005 Knitty. It’s a very well written pattern, and it’s been interesting, doing a different type of short row toe, using Magic Loop instead of DPNs, [...]

I drove down to Chesapeake City, MD, yesterday to check out Vulcan’s Rest Fibers. It was a nice drive down and across Delaware and into Maryland and Chesapeake City is the cutest little town EVAR. Tiny little streets, 1850’s vintage homes and buildings, and a lovely mix of residential and commercial. [...]

All the old pictures of my various knitting and spinning projects are busted because I forgot to move them over from the old webhost. I’ll see about restoring them when I get home tonight and can see if I saved the originals or not.
Whee.
Progress on the Falling Leaves socks continues at a glacial rate–I [...]

Stupid fricken-fracken inability to maintain even tension on the purl rows when doing stockinette stitch. I just looooove ripping out an entire heel and re-doing it. I’m hoping to be able to get a whole pair of socks from one skein of Lorna’s Laces Shepherd Sock. I’m heading into the cuff now, [...]

I finished up the merino/tencel, I’ve started on a 3-ply merino (have 2 of 3 bobbins full), and I’ve put a few things up for sale on Etsy–I even sold a skein of handspun. No clue how the buyer liked it, as she didn’t leave me feedback, but whatever.
Knittingwise, I’ve started on a modified [...]