It is looking like life is about to take a slight turn for the tumultuous, with me spending the majority of September living in a youth hostel during the week (the joys of unpaid internships!). With that in mind, and the upcoming trip to FibreFest 2011, I decided to finally get the yarn/fibre mountain under some kind of control.
First up was investing in a couple of Really Useful Boxes to store my fluff and spun yarn in. I'm hoping that by locking it all away it will a) keep the dust etc out b) stop the spiders trying to show me how it's really done and c) will have it looking nice and tidy for when hubby comes home.
Next up was finishing up a project that has been on the needles for what feels like ages, Little Arrowheads. With my damaged wrist it was obvious that I'd never get InDreams finished in time for the DyeForYarns Ravelry competition, and to be honest after almost a week of solid work on it a little while back, I'm mildly sick of the beads. With my Mum's birthday coming up soonish, and her wanting a project knitting up I wanted my needles back from the Arrowheads shawl, and to get it out of the "hanging about on the sofa" pile of projects. So here it is:
Its a much simpler design than I normally go for and if I'm honest it really isn't one of my favourite FOs. The only reason it got started was that I'd used a skein of the yarn in testing lace patterns for a class I might run, so had 110 yards of it knocking about doing nothing. A free pattern dropped into my inbox so I thought I'd combine the two. The intention is for it to have an extended vacation at Wool so that other knitters can see what the yarn looks like knitted up. As it's hand painted the colour changes are very fast when you're knitting making an odd but nice effect.
First up was investing in a couple of Really Useful Boxes to store my fluff and spun yarn in. I'm hoping that by locking it all away it will a) keep the dust etc out b) stop the spiders trying to show me how it's really done and c) will have it looking nice and tidy for when hubby comes home.
Next up was finishing up a project that has been on the needles for what feels like ages, Little Arrowheads. With my damaged wrist it was obvious that I'd never get InDreams finished in time for the DyeForYarns Ravelry competition, and to be honest after almost a week of solid work on it a little while back, I'm mildly sick of the beads. With my Mum's birthday coming up soonish, and her wanting a project knitting up I wanted my needles back from the Arrowheads shawl, and to get it out of the "hanging about on the sofa" pile of projects. So here it is:
Its a much simpler design than I normally go for and if I'm honest it really isn't one of my favourite FOs. The only reason it got started was that I'd used a skein of the yarn in testing lace patterns for a class I might run, so had 110 yards of it knocking about doing nothing. A free pattern dropped into my inbox so I thought I'd combine the two. The intention is for it to have an extended vacation at Wool so that other knitters can see what the yarn looks like knitted up. As it's hand painted the colour changes are very fast when you're knitting making an odd but nice effect.
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