To be honest, in my Dayquil- and Nyquil-induced haze for the past four days, I forgot all about my finals but I am pretty confident that I'll do okay.
First off, last night, I discovered the Brioche stitch (I hate doing the rib stitch and so this is a lifesaver!) and I whipped this one up out of some leftover blue bulky yarn I've been storing for years - got it done in less than two hours!
It is so cozy and warm that if only I hadn't lost the band,I would be ordering another one to make it a bit longer. But for now, with the addition of three black buttons from my stash, I'll have to settle for an ultra-snug Comfy Blue Neck Warmer:
Then there were the two skeins of corespun yarn that I had spun up, drying away in the corner. Today I tried to discern the difference between the two - one was spun on the drop spindle and the other on my Fricke wheel - and except for some stiffness in the spindle-spun skein, you can't tell one from the other.
Sugar and Spice. 59 yards corespun on a drop spindle
Sugar and Spice. 55 yards corespun on the wheel
Right now, my challenge will be to knit something up with the spindle-spun skein and see how it will knit up. Will it be stiff and unwieldy since I used some bulky acrylic yarn from my stash as the core instead of some soft crochet yarn that I usually use? Well, only time will tell - more precisely, after the final exams are over. I'll have to knit something up with the 59 yards (which is plenty for a variety of projects - I have a bag in mind though) and see.
I have seen a few knitted from corespun projects on the web worth mentioning:
Yarnzombie's Karamazov Hat
Atomheart's Power Beanie
One Hour Corespun Hat
Crazy Tea Cozy
Well, I guess there's so much more out there as far as knitted projects for corespun yarns. I have seen the Lalana corespun or tailspun yarns that make such wonderful scarves, and Ozark Handspun is especially amazing!
I recently gifted one of my spindle-corespun yarns to my friend Tsuya and I can't wait to see what she makes out of it! If you have any knitted projects made from your corespun, let me know. I'd love to see it!
Before I leave you to return to my regularly scheduled programming called "Cramming for the finals", let me leave you with one more eye-candy of Sugar and Spice!
2 comments:
Nice! The Sugar and Spice corespun is so pretty! Art yarns are so pretty but I dare not try them. LOL. Not yet, anyway.
hehehe...the one I spun on the drop spindle is like rope (the one from the wheel is a lot softer)! I am trying to make a bag with it right now, but definitely need to use some very thin core yarn instead of bulky acrylic next time I corespin :)
Hope you're enjoying your new drop spindle!!!!
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