Irregular colourwork when worked backed and forth is neither easy, nor fun.
The "itch factor" of a yarn depends on both the diameter and length of the fibre (short fine fibres may feel more itchy than longer, coarser fibres).
I have been cooking American pancakes at too high a heat (I could never figure out why the butter always burnt). I am now the queen of American pancakes based on the way people were wolfing them down although that may also have been to do with the strawberries and ice-cream topping (for breakfast folks!).
All the cool kids are wearing these shoes http://www.schuh.co.uk/womens-green-red-or-dead-rolo/1304474020/ - expect to see my new pair in forthcoming sock FO posts.
Knitting really is where all the great women are (to quote Felix).
Enough waffling though, I know what you really want to see is the yarn.
I came out of Deb Robson's class even more convinced that knitting from British breed specific yarn was the way to go. We used mostly Blacker Designs yarn in the two sessions of Deb's class on Friday and as soon as we hit the lunch break we headed over to Sue Blacker's stand to say thank you and to buy yarn.
I bought 5 balls of the Cotswold dk yarn on Friday to knit another seamless hybrid lace sweater (I already have some lace motifs picked out from Mikal's Vogue stitchionary) and I bought a single ball of the raspberry coloured Ryeland on Saturday with no particular plan in mind - it was just such a pretty colour.
Earlier in the week I had continued the British yarn theme (if you can continue something in advance) by buying yarn for the Cloisonne Jacket from New Lanark Mill. This is such lovely stuff. It's knitting up very quickly too, I'm already onto the sleeves of the jacket and keep breaking off from this blog post to work on the crochet reinforcement for the steek.
Finally I bought some gorgeous sorbet coloured fibre from Old Maiden Aunt. I love Lilith's colours and deliberately went for something a bit outside my usual range (plum through to wine coloured).
The colours are a bit brighter than they show up in this photograph - I'm sorely tempted to spin them both up the same weight and then stripe them!
4 comments:
Liz, it sounds like you had an amazing time, I am quite jealous!
I am looking forward to seeing your new shoes and some steeking action!
Sounds like great fun! Yes, American pancakes definitely don't require high heat.
BTW, I have those shoes in reddish-purple, and I love them!
Just catching up with your scottish adventures - seems like you had a lot of fun! That yarn looks beautiful, all of it!!
Oh and those shoes are super cute, I've seen them in the shops before and considered buying them!
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