I'm not so sure how I like the new format for IK but I love Eunny Jang's entrelac socks! I want to will a knitalong to happen for this project. I need some handholding.
But I really need to finish up my old knitting project. I've been working on it since July and it's time to complete it. I have only been knitting about 5 rows a week for awhile now. I did some not very precise calculations and it seems if I knit 7 rows a day, I should be finished in 3 and a half weeks.
I'm going to take a break from lace after this is done except for small projects. I've been pretty much just knitting lace for a year except for small projects like socks. It's been good. I learned a lot and I did gain some competence but I really would rather make some sweaters or take some of my own ideas and knit them up.
This is where my Hanging Garden Lace Stole lives 99.9% of the time:
I'm actually weaving.
I made so many mistakes sleying the reed and threading the heddles that I spent a lot of time fixing them. I don't regret the time it took to get everything right though. I learned so much by going back and fixing the warp that I'm sure that next time all will go much more smoothly. It's familiar territory now.
I was able to start the tea towel.
It goes so quickly once the warping and tying off happens!
I really mostly spin. I've been finishing up plying stuff and spinning up the remaining fiber.
I am so shocked by the change in my spinning. All of a sudden it seems to have gotten better. I know when I look at my old stuff that I'm going to be sad at how underplied it is. Makes me want to use up my handspun quickly while I love it before I get to a point where all I can see is its flaws.
That's been the great thing about spinning. I think it may be this way for a lot of people. Everything I've made from the start of the learning process, I admired. I even liked my first skein of yarn.I knew it wasn't perfect but I loved to look at it and think about its possibilities. That appreciation of my handspun didn't seem weird or narcissistic. I think it just comes from a love of fiber and the surprise in watching roving, locks etc become yarn. From the beginning, it has all seemed magical.
This is the most recently spun stuff. The middle skein (bottom photo)was not done very mindfully. It was my "get used to the Ashford Joy" skein. It's not a very consistent yarn but I like the looks of it with my other skeins.
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