the Akamai Knitter

Saturday was the start of the Tour de Fleece and I’ve been trying to document my progress of what I’ve spun each day. For the first day I Navajo plied some South African Fine in the colorway Maccaws from Spunky Eclectic that I had already gotten spun.

These aren’t really my colors, but I had a lot of fun spinning it up anyway. It’s always an adventure to reach beyond my normal color comfort zone when I’m spinning.

I wasn’t able to start a new project for the second day of the tour, but I did take a picture of how much I already had on the bobbin when I started spinning.

By the time I finished, I had completed spinning what I needed for the second bobbin for a 3-ply yarn and I completed the third bobbin. Here are the singles all ready for plying.

I also started spinning some Corriedale roving that I bought from MDSW. While in Pennsylvania, I dyed it with Shelly.

This is how much I managed to spin last night.

I’m a little disappointed as this is not the fun project I had hoped it would be. I think the fiber must have felted a bit when I dyed it because it’s hard to draft. I can feel the fibers tearing when I pull it through and it’s a little lumpy.

I have 8 ounces of the Corriedale to spin. Since this is being spun as a laceweight yarn, it’s going to take me awhile. My plan is to spin a little bit of this and break the monotony by doing other projects in between so that I don’t get completely fed up.

I’ve already planned my ‘in between’ project. It’s a Merino roving from Enchanted Knoll Farm in the colorway ‘Queen Mermaid’. It’s destined to be another 3-ply sock weight yarn.

Some knitting also took place over the weekend as I took my sock with me when I did my errands on Saturday. I’m on the leg of the second Nanner sock and I hope to have it finished sometime this week.

I’m not sure what my next portable sock project will be, but one of the things I enjoy doing while spinning is mulling over what to knit next. A stash dive might be in order though as the mulling has produced nothing of use.

A stash dive might induce an urge to destash. Hrm.

Happy Monday everyone! Thanks for reading!

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These are some earrings I got from my friend Liz just this morning and I thought they’d be perfect for Eye Candy Friday.

I also got this gorgeous earring and bracelet set from her. I can’t wait to show these off!

You can see how excited Cookie and Pressie are with my new baubles. Baubles? We don’t need no steenkin’ baubles.

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I was so inspird by Eunny’s Fire Flowers and Leaves that I bought a cone of Zephyr in Ruby. Here it is all lovely and scrumptous and just waiting to bounce on the needles.

I will definitely do a swatch of this one as I’ve seen such a range of needles used for it. I hope to swatch over the weekend, but I also started Melanie’s Moondance in Charcoal Zephyr. I am enamored of her easy to read charts. It’s amazing how a badly done chart can ruin the enjoyment of the pattern.

Both of these shawls are for the Amazing Lace KAL. I just need to finish the Flower Basket Shawl and then I’ll be free to concentrate on these other two projects!

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My mother went to a tea party on Sunday and wore my Peacock Feathers Shawl. Unfortunately it was too warm for her to keep it on, even though this is a really lightweight shawl. I really want to move to a cooler climate.

As much as I love Hawaii, the heat just kills me. I have some osteoarthritis in some places and when it gets humid and hot my joints swell up like melons. Melons, I tell you! *ack*

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