Sunday, September 17, 2006

WIP, FO, Fiber and Hair

Here is a WIP picture of the Fibonacci sweater. The yarn is very soft and progress continues. The worst part will be weaving in all of the ends from changing colors.
Here is the FO picture of the Cape Cod fan and feather socks.
Pattern: Wendy's generic fan and feather sock pattern
Yarn: Knit Picks Sock Landscape in Cape Cod
Needles: 2.5mm Inox dpns

I went to the Gathering of Wool at Young's dairy near Yellow Springs, OH on saturday. Here are the goodies I bought.

This was a kit from Mount Ampato Alpacas (www.alpacanation.com/mountampato.asp). It had the book, spindle and about 4oz of wool/alpaca blend to try spinning. I had checked the book out from the library and really liked it so I was glad to see a kit containing this book. I spun what is on the spindle after dinner last night. It is fairly easy, but will take some work to get the yarn even. I also got some other roving to spin. This is 1 pound of a dark gray merino.

And now for the hair comment. I went to get my hair cut on tuesday. My hair was below my bra strap. I asked for 5 inches to be cut off. This would bring my hair to my armpit level and still be easy to put in a bun for ballet class and get the yucky ends cut off. Well I belive she cut about 8 inches. It just hits below my shoulders. I had a struggle to get it in a bun for wednesday's ballet class. I usually have the other problem with haircuts, they don't cut enough. I will admit it looks cute and good on me, but is a lot harder to deal with for dance classes. I had my hair a little shorter than this about 5 years ago when I donated 13 inches to Locks for Love (they make wigs for kids). I was hoping to get the bad parts cut off and then continue to grow it so I could get the required 10 inches to donate again. I guess it will just be a while longer before that.

1 comment:

Kish said...

Looks like you got some real goodies last weekend :). I haven't knitted anything this week since starting back to school. I need to get crackin'! All of your work looks great. I am curious about the spinning thing that you have gotten into now. I can feel a new interest coming on!