Insubordiknit

A room fulla tangle

This week's fiber friday theme was celestial. I call it dark matter and I call it often. Oh, dark matter, ohhhhh, dark matter... Here's another shot of it, as seen from free floating in space. And here's one more, from the knitter's viewpoint, 150 yards of falklands wool, with short bursts of crazy, curly, white kid mohair, and longer stripes of crazy, curly, blue/purple/green kid mohair. It's all plied with a shiny, silver nylon thread. Oh, dark matter, you're shameless!

I spun it up yesterday, with a brick on my chest and a stale piece of toast in my throat (aka, sick, otherwise that'd be some comical pictures!), along with dead pool, 150 yards of bulky singles , wool and mohair mix. I wish I had another 150 yards for a vest for myself. bah. Little Bit loved it and insisted he be able to model it for y'all. He cam up with the pose himself.

And of course, there's post-fair, which is a slightly nicer name that puke, but you get the idea. 150 yards of self striping very soft wool mix. If used for a hat, it'd start off with soft, bright green around the head, then yellow/green/brown romney, then random stripes of those 2 with a stripe of bright red thrown in. It's thick and thin and will be lovely knit up! I'm really diggin' spinning the striping action. Here's the hank in it's whole state.

And finally, so you don't think all I do is spin, here's what I like to call 2 day socks. Knit with harley from a few days back, they're my first homespun socks and they rock! B-ill's got a show tonight and he'll be sportin' these fancy footies on stage! I used the singles for the cuff and foot and the 2 ply for the heel and toe, and would ya look at my self-striping goodness!

Posted by jacey at July 29, 2005 04:10 PM