bleah and yay in the fibery world.
I don't know if it's the pregnancy, the medication, something else entirely, but...
My hands feel really strange when I knit lately. It's like... I can feel the insides of my fingers more than I usually do. It's making for slower knitting on my Olympics project than I'd like, because after a row or two I have to put it down and wait for my hands to feel vaguely normal again. I did get a good chunk of it done on Saturday while we were out for a drive, but I'm about 6 rows shy of the underarm. I can't imagine being done with the sweater by the time the olympics are over, but if I can finish the body of the sweater this week, I'll consider that a goal accomplished.
I also managed to get nine (!) skeins together to mail off to the spinningfiber competition. Two 100% wool yarns, one laceweight and one my usual sport-ish 100 yards to the ounce yarn. Two blends, one a yummy qiviut/alpaca/merino mix that I need to buy more unspun fiber in so that I've got enough of it for a shawl (again laceweight) and a DK-ish "kitchen sink" blend from Kary. In the spindle category, some wool-silk from Crosspatch Creations and some hand-dyed tussah I bought at OFFF. In the "novelty" categories, a random wool-mohair blend dyed and carded by kathrynt (a slubby singles, every other yarn I sent was 2-ply), a bulkyish thick-and-thin again from Kary's batts and another variable thickness in Jewel of the Nile dyed BFL from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. I don't think my novelty yarns are very novel. But what can you do, they didn't fit the "smooth and even" description of the main categories, either. I hope they do well, but really I'm most interested in the the comments. I haven't shown much of my work to people who *know*.
I really wanted to send in some of the yarn for the Olympics sweater, but I was afraid I'd run out and need it before the competition was over. It now looks like that's going to be pretty unlikely, because I haven't finished the second large hank of yarn yet. I've got two more large skeins and 4-5 small ones.
My hands feel really strange when I knit lately. It's like... I can feel the insides of my fingers more than I usually do. It's making for slower knitting on my Olympics project than I'd like, because after a row or two I have to put it down and wait for my hands to feel vaguely normal again. I did get a good chunk of it done on Saturday while we were out for a drive, but I'm about 6 rows shy of the underarm. I can't imagine being done with the sweater by the time the olympics are over, but if I can finish the body of the sweater this week, I'll consider that a goal accomplished.
I also managed to get nine (!) skeins together to mail off to the spinningfiber competition. Two 100% wool yarns, one laceweight and one my usual sport-ish 100 yards to the ounce yarn. Two blends, one a yummy qiviut/alpaca/merino mix that I need to buy more unspun fiber in so that I've got enough of it for a shawl (again laceweight) and a DK-ish "kitchen sink" blend from Kary. In the spindle category, some wool-silk from Crosspatch Creations and some hand-dyed tussah I bought at OFFF. In the "novelty" categories, a random wool-mohair blend dyed and carded by kathrynt (a slubby singles, every other yarn I sent was 2-ply), a bulkyish thick-and-thin again from Kary's batts and another variable thickness in Jewel of the Nile dyed BFL from Blue Moon Fiber Arts. I don't think my novelty yarns are very novel. But what can you do, they didn't fit the "smooth and even" description of the main categories, either. I hope they do well, but really I'm most interested in the the comments. I haven't shown much of my work to people who *know*.
I really wanted to send in some of the yarn for the Olympics sweater, but I was afraid I'd run out and need it before the competition was over. It now looks like that's going to be pretty unlikely, because I haven't finished the second large hank of yarn yet. I've got two more large skeins and 4-5 small ones.