Handknit and handspun
Hey guess what everyone! It worked! I knit something with yarn that I spun!
Remember this bit of overspun, blue tweediness?
Well, with it I made a hat!!
Pattern: Tweed Beret from Interweave Knits Winter 2006
Yarn: My Own Handspun!!
Needles: Size 7 in DPNs and various circulars
Time: About a week
The overspun tweediness of the yarn ended up working out really well for the pattern. I also had the perfect amount of yarn: just a tiny, smaller-than-a-ping-pong ball's worth at the end. I was surprised; I'd thought I'd have too little yarn, but no, it was all fine! It was a big tough on my hands: very little stretch to the yarn and therefore not the nicest to knit with. I also could have made the hat a bit floppier. It's pretty thick yarn, and was nice and toasty when Coffeeboy took this picture yesterday during a snowfall. Overall, though, I really like how it came out and am terribly excited that my yarn actually "worked"!
I have another FO that I've been forgetting to post: Coffeeboy's socks. I finished these while we were in Colorado, a few days before New Year's - the last FO of 2007.
Yarn: Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Pioneer, 2 skeins
Needles: size 1, magic-looped
Time: Nov. 2007-Dec. 2007
I really enjoyed this pattern; the socks were easy to knit and the ribbing controlled some of the pooling of the yarn. Coffeeboy seems to like them too! I "gave" him the yarn as a graduation present, with the promise that they'd become socks, and I finally have kept that promise!
I've been spinning a lot lately, as you might have seen in that last post. For the past almost 2 weeks I've been spinning 8 oz. of red, "warm wine" yarn. It's amazing how much longer it takes when I'm really trying to do things right and spin more even, consistent singles! Last night I plied it onto 2 bobbins; today I need to take that off the bobbins and finish plying the yarn, probably a bobbin and a half. Then I will have a spinning FO to show you, too!
6 comments:
Ooooh! It looks great, congratulations!! Now you've got me inspired to maybe try knitting with some of my handspun....
Congratulations! The hat looks great and the color looks so good on you. I still haven't knit anything with my handspun, such that it is. I need to get my spinning mojo back.
Your hat looks great- the style really complments the handspun- and yeah we got a bit of snow here- just enough to cover everything and make it all slippery!
The hat looks great! I love the ue of the handspun. How many yards did the hat use?
Nice work on that hat! I love knitting with my handspun...which begs the question: why don't I do it more often!
Yay! There is nothing quite like knitting with your own yarn. Very cute on you too! :) The socks look great too. :)
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