Almost, but not quite
My Pi-are-square shawl is almost done, but not quite . . . that’s a lot of stitches to knit edging to! I think two more nights should do it, maybe three. I’m at the stage, though, where I want to be DONE! I haven’t even touched my socks in the last couple of days, so that I can (theoretically) get this finished that much faster.
I’m sorry, I always get impatient in the last percent or so of a project–it’s so close, I just want to see it, feel it, touch it, smell it as a completed work, not just a pile of yarn loops in my lap!
My Sunday was otherwise domestic today. I baked two beautiful loaves of whole grain bread (using the “Harvest Blend” whole-grain combination from King Arthur flour). Very yummy. I also made a lemon quick-bread, though it’s really lemon-lime since I didn’t have enough lemons for the juice needed–but since I’m a big lime fan, that was just fine with me.
I finished my second bobbin of purple merino singles, and started a third. There’s not enough roving for a fourth (or, I think, enough to fill the third). So now I’m wondering–when I ply this, how am I going to make things come out even?? I haven’t been at this very long, and have not been able (yet) to manage to splice singles together when plying.
Oh, and I got an email–the wool combs I ordered last week are back-ordered (sigh). And the dog brushes I’d ordered the week before still haven’t come (nor have Chappy’s vitamins!). So the bags of Gotland wool that I half-cleaned/half felted last weekend are still sitting on the guest room floor, waiting for me to come do something with them. Maybe it’s a sign that I should just stick with Roving??
And, lastly, I saw a link to this site on an AOL book board–I haven’t gone to church in years, and you all know I’m more of a dog person than a cat person, but my . . . this woman has a talent and a vision for Legos! Very impressive!
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I run into that singles issue while spinning all the time – I can never get things to come out even! What I’ve started to do is to wind the singles onto a swift if you have one and count the number of turns it takes to wind the bobbin and then wind 2 center pull balls with my ball winder with half of what was wound on the swift (that’s why I count when winding on the swift – devide by two and wind that number of turns on the ball winder). Alternately you could wind one center pull ball and ply from the center and the outside at the same time. I don’t care for that method as it is can be difficult for me but it does work. I’m sure there’s a more efficient way to accomplish this – this is just the method I’ve come up with that works for me.