Snow day means ball winding
Yesterday turned out quite lovely.
After I got home I spent the rest of the day finishing up some of my mending/knitting to do's and started cleaning for the party tomorrow. Nothing hard core, just a little rearranging.
I worked a little bit on that v neck sweater that I took apart, but I may have screwed it up even more.
So I put it down to have a think-think about possible solutions. Perhaps tonight I will tackle it again.
Remember that ramen-noodle pile of yarn?
Well, I washed it and hung it to dry (this relaxes the kinks) earlier in the week.
My shower has a curtain on either side (to protect the window) and the two rods work GREAT for supporting a Swiffer broom handle full of soggy yarn.
I spent an hour or so yesterday turning that into this:
All balled and bagged and ready to become something wonderful!
Which is good because I didn't really want piles of ramen-noodle yarn lying around (or hanging in the shower) during my fete.
I worked on the DNA strand, but I'm not happy with it.
These are the outer twists, but they are twisting the wrong way... the DNA should be a right handed twist, and this is left handed. Grrr.
The woman who originally wrote the pattern corrected it, but on a different page on her website. So I didn't catch that I was twisting it the wrong way until 1/2 way through the second twist.
I know how to fix it now, but that means I'll have to make them again.
From the start.
Double grr.
There was a part of me that said, "who fucking cares?" But then... I care. It will bug me that it's twisting the wrong way. AND, they are a little too short. Inspecting them from a finished point, I'd like another inch or so to really see the way they wrap around each other.
*sigh*. At least, it doesn't take very long to make them... only about two episodes of SCI per twist. I might just sew these together into a donut twist and give them to the cats as a toy. At least then the effort won't have been a COMPLETE waste.
After I got home I spent the rest of the day finishing up some of my mending/knitting to do's and started cleaning for the party tomorrow. Nothing hard core, just a little rearranging.
I worked a little bit on that v neck sweater that I took apart, but I may have screwed it up even more.
So I put it down to have a think-think about possible solutions. Perhaps tonight I will tackle it again.
Remember that ramen-noodle pile of yarn?
Well, I washed it and hung it to dry (this relaxes the kinks) earlier in the week.
My shower has a curtain on either side (to protect the window) and the two rods work GREAT for supporting a Swiffer broom handle full of soggy yarn.
I spent an hour or so yesterday turning that into this:
All balled and bagged and ready to become something wonderful!
Which is good because I didn't really want piles of ramen-noodle yarn lying around (or hanging in the shower) during my fete.
I worked on the DNA strand, but I'm not happy with it.
These are the outer twists, but they are twisting the wrong way... the DNA should be a right handed twist, and this is left handed. Grrr.
The woman who originally wrote the pattern corrected it, but on a different page on her website. So I didn't catch that I was twisting it the wrong way until 1/2 way through the second twist.
I know how to fix it now, but that means I'll have to make them again.
From the start.
Double grr.
There was a part of me that said, "who fucking cares?" But then... I care. It will bug me that it's twisting the wrong way. AND, they are a little too short. Inspecting them from a finished point, I'd like another inch or so to really see the way they wrap around each other.
*sigh*. At least, it doesn't take very long to make them... only about two episodes of SCI per twist. I might just sew these together into a donut twist and give them to the cats as a toy. At least then the effort won't have been a COMPLETE waste.