Came up around 4pm and started back on the two socks on two circular needles. Man, I really don’t like this method. The hands feel so confined and restricted and the yarn is constantly twisting around each other. It doesn’t help that I am using the yarn from one ball, every row or two I have to untwist the yarn and find the right needle to use again. I only have 2 16″ and they are a bit too short for me to deal with the socks. Anyway, I have been struggling with this one and avoiding knitting it for a long time. One saving factor is the cuff down method. It’s only the second time I tried to knit socks from the cuffs down. So learning the method makes it interesting and I quite like the construction of the socks knitted this way. Especially the short rows done by K2tog or ssp instead of wrapping is more appealing to me. Picking up the stitches along the heel is also much smoother than the other way. I may start knitting socks cuffs down for a while but I’m going back to the dpns. I love knitting socks with dpns.
The skein I plied the other day and washed and dried did not have enough twist in the first half of the skein. So I ran it through the wheel again adding more twist to it. It took quite a while as the skein got tangled in the middle I had to wind it up from the other side and paying extra attention in untangling the darn thing. But eventually I conquered it and then I wound it to the swift and then to the ball winder. I got 400 yards for this skein. Hmm, what can I knit with it?
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The finaly product looks better but it is the first wheel spun yarn, there are lots of irragularities and vm and over spun or under spun spots. But it’s my first attempt so I will give myself some slack. Then I started on the new roving I got from the Great Lakes Fiber festival, it’s border leicester dark brown. More crimp than the coopworth I worked with a bit more difficult to spin for some reason. But I will stick with it and hopefully it will get easier with practice. The drafting is still not even.
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I have a spinning station setup behind the chairs facing the TV so I can watch some TV when I spin. Well, hoping to watch TV when I spin. The swift and the ball winder mounted on the portable coffee table next to me. I’m quite happy about the setup having all the tools I need at arms reach.
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I went back to sock knitting in order to watch the Cavs. It’s so close it kept me on the edge the whole time. Leo gave up to go to bed but can’t help coming back to watch the ending. We lost. But it was so close. These two teams are very equal in their game but Magic got lucky again. It’s such a disappointment to watch your team lose and you just can’t help really getting into it and feeling the stress and the anxiety as the seconds count down to zero. Now I’m tired and finally getting ready to go to bed.
So that’s the day. I am pretty productive all in all and yet I stayed home all day. Oh and the little geeselings have grown a lot since I last saw them. I took the second picture from inside the house so the color isn’t as vibrant. But you can kind of tell the little babies have grown up a lot.
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