this is called „dragon purple“ because the wensleydale roving is from drachenwolle (=dragon yarn). and it is purple. obviously 😉
i spun it on my sonata and ended up with about 300m and 99g. i’m not sure what to think of wensleydale fiber tough. it is very shiny but not as soft as i would have liked. and after plying the singles and washing the skein it became scrubbier and lost some of it’s shine. but see for yourself:
this yarn was spun from zarzuela’s „blue jeans and leather shoes“ merino superwash fiber. it was a pleasure to spin and i ended up with 531m on 93g. any ideas what i could knit from it? maybe a simple scarf or shawl? nothing too outlandish as the colour changes are quite strong… hm…
thanks to reingard’s intuition when it comes to wollmeise shop updates, i got some new treasures:
from left to right: olio vergine, strohblume, aquarius, blue curacao, blaue tinte
all of them are 150g, merino superwash.
hmmm, i love wollmeise!
wow, can you believe it?! i won two gold medals in the internal ravelympics competition of team germany!
the participating projects were awarded by the team captains of team germany and the members voted by klicking „agree“. and i won. yay!
hm, i guess this is the time for a moving speech like „i couldn’t have done it alone. so i share these medals with my team whom i had a lot of fun with during the ravelympics, with my boyfriend who loves me although i’m a nuts knitaholic, my mum because she never tought me how to knit…“ erm. yeah. let’s leave it at that 😀
here are my two golden projects!
the octopus in the category „cute and cuddly“:
i might even print out the medal for him. might calm him down as he is sitting on my cd rack still trying to strangle the poor drawing model puppet 😉
the cut & paste socks in the category „socks“:
thanks to everybody who voded („agree“-d) for me 🙂
so this is what became of the „greens“ yarn is spun last weekend: a jaques cousteau hat. well, almost. i had to modify the pattern when i realized i was running out of yarn. so i gave the rim a miss and just knit the hat shorter. but it fits great now and i like the result. what do you think?
oh, and i got 3 more ravelympics medals for my hat:
pattern: jacques cousteau hat
yarn: greens, handspun by be, 100% shetland
needles: 4.0mm dpns
i finished this skein last weekend. weight wise i was aiming for dk weight as i wanted to use the yarn as a hat. not sure i completely succeeded, i had about 13 wpi in the end and about 150m on 98g 🙂
the roving is 100% shetland wool, handdyed by wheeldale woolcrafts. i think the colourway was called „earth greens“ or something. the colours are great. i kept saving this roving for something special. i tend to do that with all the yarn and roving i like most. a bit absurd, don’t you think. i’d better use it as soon as possible and wear the resulting clothing and accessories all the time…. right?!
i like spinning shetland a lot. it feels more rough and sturdy than merino but that makes it a lot easier to spin regularly and thin.
i had some problems with overspun yarn lately though. somehow i couldn’t stop treadling very fast. and apparently my hands and feet only move in the same speed: if i treadle fast, i move my hands fast, if i treadly slowly, i move my hands slowly. have to practice treadling slowly and moving my hands fast 😉
got another ravelympics medal for this:
anyway, here some photos:
and another project i finished during ravelympics. it makes me all productive. yay.
the yarn was an experiment that went slightly wrong. i wound the yarn to a skein doubled so i get the same colours for both socks and then dyed it in the skein with easter egg colours and kool aid. but it didn’t turn out very well: many white spots in the middle… but see for yourself.
pattern: improvised toe-up socks
yarn: plain white sock yarn from wollpapst, handdyed
needles: 1 120cm circular needle, 2.5mm
wip:
finished:
finally finished. it took me 2 years to finish these socks. no idea why because i absolutely adore the pattern. it’s easy yet effective and creates a great texture. it also never gets boring.
pattern: cut & paste socks by becca diaz. i slightly changed the pattern and knit them top down instead of toe-up (when i started the socks i was still afraid of toe up 😉 )
yarn: lana grossa meilenweit cotton stretch
needles: 2.5mm dpns
i took the ravelympics event „aerial unwind“ (= ripping projects you don’t like to reuse the yarn) as an opportunity to tidy my wip box. i had really old projects in there that would have never ever been finished. so i frogged them! yay!
got 3 aerial unwind medals for 3 projects:
nordisch inspiriert
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after:
leaf socks
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wave socks
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and here’s the second finished ravelympics project. it’s fingerless mittens for tim’s sister. the pattern is a piece of cake but the challenge is that i don’t know her in person yet. so i have to guess what she likes, which colours, which style…
the mittens are very cosy, soft and warm. i hope she likes the them as birthday present…
this time i took part in the ravelympics events mitten moguls and cable cross-country.
pattern: dashing
yarn: wolle rödel, soft-merino, 100% merino. used about 1.5 skeins
needles: 4.0mm dpns
ps: i hate taking photos at night. you never get the same results as with daylight. but as i wanted to have the ravelympics medals as soon as possible, it had to be photos last night with flash 😉
