I finished the socks from Cherry Tree Hill. Amy warned me that the yarn would run like crazy. I washed them, and they ran as she had predicted . I'm okay with that since these are for me, but I don't think I'd use this yarn for gift sock and it's too bad, because I love the short color runs.
It's June and I certainly didn't expect to be able to wear them this season, but it's been just that unseasonably cold. We've even have a couple of fires in the wood stove - crazy. The weather patterns are changing and I hope I'm going to like the new ones.
Double Eyelet Rib Pattern - multiple of 7 stitches. I cast on 56.
Rows 1,2 & 4: p2, k5
Row 3: k2tog, yf, K1, yf, sl 1, k1
This is what I have been spinning for the past couple of months - blah, blah, blah. My plan is to get enough yarn spun for a natural dye day. I have four wools here: the white on left is Bluefaced Leicester, then it's luster longwools in white, champagne and gray. I love how the colored wools overdye. The Blueface is for hats and the rest for double-weave wall hangings, just as soon as I learn how to do double weave. Did I mention that I'm retiring in four days and will have time to learn things like that?
Nothing goes without snooper-
vision, as you can see. With the socks finished, I have no stash yarn. I'm thinking about placing a Knit Picks order, getting a couple of sock yarns and some plain wool to toss into my natural dye pots for a fair isle sweater. Thoughts.
This odd structure is a barn loom that my brother brought down right after we moved here. It sat outside through the winter and when Laura and I finally assembled it, it was so damaged that there was no weaving potential left. It is a bird feeder now. I had planned to trellis the roses but they had plans of their own.
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6 comments:
Congrats on the socks and commiseration for the color running. I just hate it when that happens. But most important of all -- four more days!!!! Wahoo! You are going to LOVE retirement.
No stash yarn?!? Wow!
The socks look just gorgeous, and I love all the natural hues of what you've been spinning.
Congrats in advance on retirement!
Great socks!!!!!! Thank goodness the yarn was varigated and the finished socks were for you. I just washed some black shawls I wove and couldn't believe how much the dye ran. That never happened to me with black yarn before.
I hope you enjoy retirement as much as I do.
You are so creative!!!! Love what you did with the old loom!!!
4 more days!!! Awesome!!
Those socks are really pretty. Love the color!
Love the cat on the loom!
And that outdoor loom.....that's definitely a sight!
Sue
Great FO! I really like that stitch pattern.
So, are you free today???
The socks are pretty, but that's a bummer about the dye. Bother.
Your spinning is pretty.
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