37 grams (1.30 oz) 120 yards
It looked like SO much.
..and some sky blue silk.
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the last muffin
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Mountain Spring socks
The weekend was a washout, not bad, not good. I sort of like a rainy day. It means a project day to me. Sunday morning, as I looked out the window at the spring rain, I remembered that I had saved a skein of sock yarn in my Mountain Spring colorway for myself. The colors fit the view. I needed a pattern, preferrably one with a 4 or 8 stitch repeat. I cast on and completed the picot top without knowing where it would go from there. I tried a number of different stitch patterns, starting with a slip stitch. I knit, I frogged, three times. I tried an old stitch I’d used years ago called "little tent". Nothing worked. The rain continued. I wanted a leaf pattern, spring… something. Then I thought of a pattern I’d seen in IK, the Embossed Leaves by Mona Schmidt. It was just what I was looking for. It was so much fun I got the leg completed while I watched TV in the evening.
Pardon the scanned picture, a dud for sure. It’s a dark, grey afternoon, and I am in a hurry. The dye pot is heating.
14 responses to “Mountain Spring socks”
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What a pretty colorway and just perfect for the sock pattern too!
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That’s going to be one gorgeous pair of socks!
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The pattern is perfect with the yarn. It was worth the hunt!
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Great choice for a great pattern…(love the picot top on them too…)
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Perfect yarn for a lovely pattern. I really must make that sock.
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Ooohhhh, very nice! I love the colorway. But you know that.
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Beautiful socks. I don’t remember the picot edge in the pattern; was that your own touch? I love it.
I contemplated casting on for these last night, but I have to get another pair off the needles first. -
I like what the colors are doing. The picot edge broke land-speed records.
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It couldn’t have been a total loss – not when you have that beautiful started sock to show for it! Hope you survived the monsoons safely.
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This is indeed a perfect match !
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Inspiring! maybe I’ll try the same pattern with my skein — I love this yarn!
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So very springy!
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So much more like spring than outside. I do love that pattern.
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Oh, that colorway…! Sigh. It’s perfect.
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saturday spin-in
Friday I sat down with my calculator and divided the weight of two very beautiful and very clean Border Leicester fleeces by 17. Then I hauled my trusty triple beam into the garage and began bagging up the wool. The Guild’s April meeting was Saturday. I handed out 5 oz. bags of mixed black and white fleece with the idea that by a date to be selected (September’s meeting) we would use it to make a project.. pretty loose, huh? The only stipulation was that we would share our thoughts and process along the way. Learning from seeing and doing, works for me. It’ll be interesting to see what happens along the way. One member got her combs out immediately and in a few minutes had a smallish pile of gorgeous soft, lofty black wool ready to spin. I’ll probably wash mine first. Then what? Dye, blend, spin… separately, together? I love possibilities. Imagine, 17 different minds, 17 different projects.
5 responses to “saturday spin-in”
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What a fantastic sharing idea! Please keep us posted on what the members do with their wool.
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FAntastic idea! I saw it on Cindy’s blog and left a simple thought. Can’t wait to see what folks do. Good use of fleece.
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I love the top picture with the wool oozing out of the top of the glass pan – it looks like a souffle gone awry!
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It looks like a wonderful idea to see how creative everyone is with the same starting point.
Your socks look great too, knit in the national color of the Netherlands ! It really is, no kidding. -
What wonderful looking fleece! So clean and yummy!
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2 responses to “the last muffin”
Beautiful spinning. Have you weighed it to see how much you have there yet?
And the (cherry?) wood in the top photo is gorgeous.)
Beautiful spinning~ Your Mountain Spring socks are just gorgeous!