Did you see the new button to the right for the Tour de Fleece?? I am joining up for the first time this year and my challenge is to spin enough yarn for a sweater or to make significant progress towards one. Of course, I am talking about spinning it on my wheel, and lucky for me I will be going up to the Estes Park Sheep and Wool Festival this Sunday to scope out and purchase something squooshy. The way this works is that you set yourself a big challenge to spin every day of the Tour de France bike race which this year runs from July 4 to July 26. There is a Ravelry group that issues prizes and it is a forum to post progress reports and photos as you go. Sounds like a lot of fun and I am up for the challenge.. Now I have a shopping goal: 2 pounds of fiber should be sufficient to make enough yarn to do this. Any ideas for colors or fiber type??? Suggestions always welcome.
I haz Iris!
This is the first blooming iris.....gift from Becky of Iron Needles and it looks like there will be several more on the stem. It is a very yummy shade of butterscotch with burgundy accents. I thought it might be the same as she showed in her blog this morning, but hers look like a much brighter gold. In addition, there are bloom stalks on 3 other iris that she sent me. Stay tuned.
I have cast on for my variation of the Berry Season Socks from 2-at-a-time Socks in my first 3 ply wheel spun sock yarn from dragonfibers. It is actually knitting up more bulky than I thought it would, so next time I will do 2 ply. Changes made so far is a plain k1p1 cuff, and I will make them regular length, instead of shorty as in the original pattern. I love the sheen that this yarn has and they are very soft, if bulky. Using size 1.5 needles.
This is a much better representation of the true colors and it shows off the texture of the pattern.
4 comments:
That might be Hot Dogs 'n Mustard. Looks like a little broken color there on the fall. What fun! Glad you are enjoying them.
Thanks for the good thoughts, Liz, and the offer to keep an eye out at Estes. I have no idea what I would have you look for, and it's not like I don't have enough stashed already! I would have dearly loved to have seen you, though.
Ooooh, that sounds fun! Makes me wish I was a spinner so I could participate!
Oh, and those socks look wonderfully squishable. Great colors too.
You have inspired me to join Tour De Fleece. I have signed up for the Rookie and the Hopelessly Overcommited groups.
It is too soon to know what I will spin.
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