I don't seem to have a lot of other clear photos of yarn I've spun on this wheel, darn it. But there was more, really and truly!
Tuesday, August 5, 2025
Musings about spinning wheels -- rehabbing older wheels (CPW)
I don't seem to have a lot of other clear photos of yarn I've spun on this wheel, darn it. But there was more, really and truly!
Sunday, August 3, 2025
Musings about spinning wheels -- my first wheel (Fricke)
Some BFL handpaint, left as singles yarn. I dyed it myself (or a family member dyed it) rather than buying the roving already dyed.
A cowl that I knit with Fricke-spun handspun yarn. I later ended up unraveling it because the proportions ended up not quite right for my needs. I'm glad I took a photo, though, since the fabric is very cute and I like how the pattern stitch interacts with the yarn.
Monday, July 28, 2025
Another July progress post on Lavori 07/30 (with the latest errata, of course)
Saturday, July 12, 2025
The first July progress report on Lavori 07/30
Sunday, June 29, 2025
Probably the final June 2025 progress report on Lavori 07/30
I need to start thinking about the next travel project, since this one won't last much longer.
I have no similar worries about the doily -- I've finished maybe 2/3 of the rounds, so I'm about 1/3 done with the doily. I have lots and lots of knitting left to do. Though if I want to sneak in a few smaller doilies in the meantime, I might do so. Lavori 07/30 is on my 47" long circular needle now, so all the shorter ones are available for use.
Sunday, June 15, 2025
Yet another June 2025 Lavori 07/30 progress report
Saturday, June 7, 2025
Lavori 07/30 progress report -- triple digits and another chart error
Yay! I'm halfway through the rounds, and thus roughly 25% done with the knitting, give or take a bit.
There's another chart error on round 97 -- there is an asymmetry on the outside of the 5-X-5 sequences. The right side has a yarnover while the left side has a double yarnover. The single yarnover is correct for both spots.
I've finished the first part of the flower base, where there are a couple of rounds of garter stitch. I've done the last crossed stitches of the lower leaves (well, second set of leaves; the first set is long finished). The leaves have another few rounds before they finish merging into the background mesh. There are still a LOT of stitches for barely being in the 100s, but so far it's reasonably pleasant knitting.
Things to look forward to -- more development of the flower, yay! And I can see where the next set of leaves gets started. Those will be around until the end of the doily, I believe.
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I can't remember if I've shared a pic of this doily before.
It's Burda 554/15. It's really a square pattern, but I decided to experiment and see what happened if I did 5 pattern repeats instead of 4. It was not fully successful -- I wasn't able to block it flat. I still like how it looks.
This is what it's supposed to look like if one does 4 pattern repeats per round.
This was done early in my doily-knitting career, and it taught me some useful things about stitch counts and increase/decrease locations and the effect of relatively simple changes on the appearance of the doily. I still am interested in those topics!
This might have been one I did simply because (a) it was small, and (b) I could read the chart without having to disassemble the chart pages from the magazine's staples. That was definitely how I chose my first doilies from Burda 554!