now if i could just finish my sweater and socks with this kind of awesomness and fast…ness, i would be done them by now.
wow, that was quite possibly the worst sentence ever typed, but also the awesomest at the same time.
this one felt like it took a whole star wars movie to spin…
the empire strikes mmat
although i have assembled several yarns while i’ve been on holidays, i haven’t had any opportunity to assemble yarns in the great outdoors as of yet. for some reason, nature has decided that it needs to rain when i plan any outdoor activities this week.
i have another 50 gram roving of this stuff. it’s SOOOOOO nice to spin, and super manly soft.
so yesterday’s yarn didn’t get finished until after 11:30 last night, so being that i’m only equipped with my iPhone i waited until this morning to shoot the photo…
and check out what’s lined up for day 2…
two balls.
of hand dyed cormo roving. asses will be kicked today.
merino, cashmere… and a dirty old tree frog.
i have a problem. i have a thing for toques (and also coffee mugs, hot wheels cars and electric guitars, but that’s not the point).
so i started another toque…
say hello to my Noro Cranial Thermal Retention Device. It’s made from Noro Silk Garden Sock Yarn (which i’m renaming to Worm Puke Plant Pile) using 3.5 mm 16″ circular needles. knit two, purl two, repeat.
it won’t be nearly as soft and warm as my cashmere toque, but how many non-cashmere toques could be?
on wednesday my 74 day spin marathon will begin, and i’m going to spend some day grinding up some sheep hair in preparation.
while it appears that i’ve been silent for the last two and a half weeks, let me assure you that i have in fact been quite busy. the whole “having a day job” thing has been getting in the way of any regular web site updates, but there are some coming very soon.
first of all, i’m working on a super-secret project with Cindy from Studioloo which will result in an increase in super-awesome yarn.
also, i’ve got a big pile of Superwash Merino/Cashmere/Nylon sock yarn waiting for me to dye it. everybody loves cashmere.
AND
i’ve taken on a challenge of epic proportions. my friend RubyFox has too much yarn, and needs to go on a yarn diet, so she challenged herself to not buy any yarn between July 1st and the Knitter’s Fair in Waterloo in september.
i have a problem where i haven’t been spinning enough yarn. the challenge: she will go without buying yarn for that 74 day period, and i will spin at least one 50 gram skein of yarn every day in that 74 day period.
so, with 74 new yarns coming very soon, i will be back into the swing of writing, posting, spinning and knitting again… reminding everyone about the manly sport of fibre arts.
and also, it’s a great way to spin down 10 lbs of fibre. wish me luck.
someone was nice enough to remind me that i’ve been missing in action (like chuck norris!) for three weeks. which happened to remind me that i’ve got this big pile of sock yarn waiting patiently for me to find new homes for it all.
super manly sock yarn.
untastic sock yarn.
now featured in the Yarn Shop of Manliess are the first two runs of Untastic Sock Yarn. there’s 11 new skeins to choose from right now in either Merino/Nylon or Merino/CASHMERE/nylon (and holy crap, is the cashmere blend ever soft).
there’s also two new handspun yarns in there as well, and two coming very soon (and not soon as in “three weeks from now soon, but as in for real this time).
the rock switch has now been set in the “on” position.
the bad news first, i had to rip apart my Alpaca Sweater of Awesomeness. although it IS a very manly thing to make things unnecessarily large, that rule doesn’t generally apply to sweaters. i learned the manly lesson of measure first, knit second. a sweater that’s 10 inches too large is … well … too large.
and although i haven’t yet updated my web site with all of my awesome Untastic Sock Yarn, i do have several bundles of Merino/Cashmere/Nylon sock yarn sitting on the drying rack presently
if i can get sunlight after i come home from work, i’ll photograph it all and hopefully update the Yarn Shop of Manliness tomorrow night.
almost as quickly as it began, the great sock race is now over and we have a winner.
everyone give a manly round of applause to Lisa from The Big Finish. thankfully Lisa was using metal needles because if she had used wooden ones they would have caught fire.
check them out…
big thanks to everyone who took part and defeated by Lisa’s knitting needles of fire. i’ll be having another ManSpun contest soon.