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Spinning

18Mar08

Beside one really big project that will not be included in my blog at this time, there has been relatively little knitting going on here. Just a bit of this and that, but nothing special. I have been spinning a lot over the past few days though. I bought a whole bunch of random scraps of roving recently to hopefully make a simple stockinette pullover out of bulky 2-ply handspun. It spins up SO fast – it’s very satisfying.

That’s about 275ish yards, and I’ve got plain brown roving for the rest of the sweater. I’m thinking about a really simple brown sweater with some sort of colorwork in the yoke.

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spring break

10Mar08

I just had my very last spring break (unless I go to school again someday). I’m really feeling like the end is near! I graduate May 3!

I spent spring break with my bf, but we both had so much work to do that I feel like I didn’t really get a spring break anyway. I did get to spend some time with his cat Oscar though He loves to pose for the camera.

I knit a ton over the break on just one project, which is just taking forever and ever. Luckily the deadline is this week so I’ll be done soon and can start on projects I’m really interested in. Most notably, the Venezia Pullover. I have the yarn and I’m super excited!

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Yesterday’s Post, version 2

22Feb08

My Awesome Hat from Phara:

And the adventures in fair isle. Here’s what I started with – I knit the hem in the round with the steek stitches at the beginning of the round, and an increase at the beginning and decrease at the end for the “bias” part.

I put both sides of the tube (live stitches) on holders.

Next, I added a row of single crochet on either side of the center steek stitch, and started cutting! What’s nice about crochet steeks is that once you’re ready to start cutting, it’s completely obvious exactly what you’re supposed to cut.