It’s cold. It’s windy. So windy, in fact, that the doors have blown open and now have been locked tight. But the sun is shining and the radiant heat feels wonderful. The cats are sunning themselves at the "beach". I was working in the office and heating up the dye pot. Then something happened. A package arrived.
"Heart Spindle" in bloodwood
by: the spanish peacock
The weekend was a glorious reprieve. The eclipse Friday night was a beauty. The clouds blew passed, partly obscuring while producing an even more beautifully mysterious effect. Great light. The birds chorused Saturday morning in a promise of spring. Temperatures skyrocketed. A man ran passed me on the road wearing a T shirt yelling out, winter’s over..! Right…. until today. Sunday, I gave myself time to spend doing nothing but sitting in my chair knitting and watching movies. I made progress, good progress on the Trellis scarf. This morning I hung it up by the needles and gave it a quick steaming. Amazing what kind of additional length can be gained with a bit of steam. The project had gotten to the endless state until I realized that I could actually end it, really close. Tonight, I’ll do a few more repeats. What’s another day or so. Six inches more, that ‘ll do it.
Curiousity got the better of me Sunday morning. I had one skein of my hand dyed sock yarn left and uncharicteristically, I hadn’t made anything from it before starting to offer it for sale. I wanted to try it and I wanted to make a pair of socks with a picot edge. Claudia, thanks for the easy directions…piece o’cake. I like the result. Here’s hoping that they will stay up. I also like working with the yarn as much as dyeing it. I’ve got a 64 st sock going on a #2 bamboo circular, the kind that WEBS sells with the swiveling band.
The size seems right. I’ll scale it down a bit for the foot by using a smaller needle for the sole. There a few circular needles on there way from Knitpicks for me. Something else I’ve been thinking about trying.
Gorgeous sock! The colors are really lovely.
Pretty color for a sock! Our days have been warm cool warm cool…it’s spring!
My Options just arrived…quickly, too!
I can see why you’d like those colors! Sort of the cobbler’s wife syndrome tho, eh? Looking forward to Trellis pictures soon. 🙂
I love that picot edge – very sweet and great color on that yarn there!
I love that sock yarn. I becoming more and more fond of orange.
I wish winter was over, too. The weather’s warming up here and there’s no snow, but I just can’t avoid this foreboding feeling that the sky is going to dump a ton of unexpected snow on us. Like it did last week. What the…?
I like the way the colors are distributed. I did those socks also, easy knitting with just a tiny detail, keeping you knitting to see how progresses. Temps not about 10 and w i n d y here. I baked all morning.
I do like what those colors are doing…but I had NO doubts. Good colors. I always forget about the smaller needle trick, and do decreases. Smaller needle makes sense.
Beautiful colors! I love my Knitpicks circs and plan to order more.
Gorgeous yarn…
i love it. I knit almost exclusively now with Knit Picks. I think you’ll like them.
I really love your sock. The color is gorgeous. The picot edge looks just dainty enough. If you have trouble with it not staying up, try threading a couple of lines of elastic thread through the private side of the hem.
That is a delightful sock-ette. The picot edge, of course, does nothing for the staying-up. If you have enough negative ease, though, that will do the trick.
Tonight’s full moon is the "Worm Moon", I love it. It will rise, and it rises early, as a full lunar eclipse. Easy to catch this one!
The moon was gorgeous last night – I can’t wait to see it tonight.
I love full moons! I’m really looking forward to this one!
Oh, love what looks like your sunrise. Great photo.
WOW! I haven’t heard about the moon. I’ll be watching. Fabulous picture.
Wow. I did not know that. And those photos are wonderful. I hope to catch the moon tonight…thanks for posting this.
Hahah, I should say “that photo.” I literally thought it was TWO photos at first!
That is a beautiful shot.
Pretty! Amazing colors. It was cloudy for the eclipse. *sigh*
Pretty! Amazing colors. It was cloudy for the eclipse. *sigh*
Love your shadows. I always like how things go orange as the sun begins to set over the treetops.
Your socks are pretty too.
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Lovely spindle and pic!!!My package arrived as well!!!You’ll have to see what I got. See my blog post tomorrow…
Stop everything! You need to make that things go round and round!
Beautiful spindle! Radiant heat? That unfortunately is something we never got today! Wicked radiant freeze is more like it. Did I say how much I hate winter?
So much for working, eh?
Oh yeah, you weren’t spinning enough. All that friction with the air WARMS us. Get going!
Pretty dropspindle.
Gorgeous…you should have saved that one to post on Valentine’s day! More info, please!
How lovely! Definitely take some time out to enjoy that new spindle.
Cool! Perhaps mine will be in the mail today too….wheeeeeee! It’s so pretty!
Isn’t that pretty! Do tell . . . 🙂
Wow, that is a piece of art. Lovely!
Yeah. Cold much? eek.
That is a gorgeous spindle!
How lovely!
Excellent score.