I really do actually knit and spin! I know it doesn't appear such since the beginning of the year, but it is coming along!
Up tonight are two recent objects : a felted (to be) bowl using three colors of yarn, one of which was handpainted, and a linen stitch to blend the color bands, and a pair of felted mittens using a Fiber Trends pattern.
First, the bowl. The bowl needs a name, and I'm open
for suggestions, but perhaps it needs to wait for the naming until after the felting. I took a class at Michelle's Place (Fiberphilia) from my pal, Virginia (alas, no blog, but we may convince her to share). The pattern I think is Virginia's own, with all sorts of little tricks she has incorporated into her felted things she has picked up here and there. Hopefully, there will be cousins to this one soon to be created - Virginia had a lot of nice shapes to her bowls! This bowl was knit with two strands throughout, but used four strands at the rim to give it more sustenance. She used linen stitch to blend the handpaint into the solids before and after it, sometimes using two strands of the same color, and at others, using one strand of each color. I am hoping to felt it tonight, so I'll shoot after photos at that time, with the same supervising sheep (the fellow in the checkerboard coat).
Next up, some mittens knit of Sheep Shop Two (a bulky handpaint with short runs of color, on Uruguayan yarn like Manos or Malabrigo. I used a fiber trends mitten pattern that utilizes short rows on the back of the hand, so felted, there is a curved shaping to the mitten in a more natural, therefore more comfortable, shape. With the number of subzero nights and wind chills to -35 we've had in the past three weeks, and the Nor'easter today (wonderful snow falling now), DS the youngest (also known as Kille's brother gamma) needs new mittens. He's grown over a foot since I knit his last pair, so these are WAY overdue! I just need to add the thumbs on tonight, then off to the washer they go along with the bowl!
Post-felting pictures to follow VERY soon!
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