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June 14, 2007
Do I really need more fleece?
As I said in my last post, I bought a 3.75 lb. Shetland fleece. What I didn't say was that while I was buying I was waiting for a 7.7 lb Border Leicester ram fleece from eBay to arrive. Yep, about 11 pounds in total. Hi, my name is Holly, and I'm addicted to fiber. Sigh, but it's so wonderful. The Border Leicester is on the coarse side, but that's the nature of it, and why I bought it. My main plan for it is to spin it in to a sturdy yarn for making coiled baskets. I used to make them as a kid, and I've wanted to do it again ever since a Spin Off from a few years ago. Now I finally will!
Here's my Shetland
And the Border Leicester
In actual knitting news, I've started to knit Kirstie's Latvian Inspired Mittens. I call them "Inspired" because generally the thumb is knit in pattern. That's a pain in the ass. so to put it bluntly (avert your eyes, sensitive readers)"fuck that!" I'm just doing a plain solid black thumb. I'm cool with it, Kirstie's cool with it, so who cares what anyone else thinks. You'll notice the long cuff. It had to be to fit the cuff design we worked out. It also serves a practical purpose. There's nothing worse than being out in the snow, reaching out, only for your arm to get cold the you mitten cuff and coat cuff don't quite meet.
I had planned on treating myself tomorrow since it was pay day to an Alice Starmore book that was approximately $125. I'm going to be good and not get it, but I'm planning on ordering the Stitch and Motif maker from KnitPicks. I downloaded the demo and it's really cool.
Posted by Holly at June 14, 2007 10:19 PM
Comments
I am going to run write that down right now.
You are an awesome knitter !
Posted by: Sonya at June 27, 2007 09:24 AM
YAY! I love... LOVE my mittens! can't wait! I hope they will be blue ribbon mittens! YAY ! Now I have to start on the altered version of this pattern... guess I SHOULD put the WOW down. :sigh:
Posted by: Kirstie at June 15, 2007 10:05 AM
Cool fleeces, I've not spun either yet. I have part of a Border Leicester fleece I haven't completely processed yet. You are a better woman than me for many reasons, 1) I don't think I enjoy working with raw wool 2) I don't think I want to mess with fair isle anything. But the mittens are going to be beautiful.
Posted by: Peggy at June 15, 2007 09:34 AM