Some yarns to dye for

Argh, I missed my monthly update by a day, woe! Here’s my (kinda) monthly breakdown of what’s happening on the knitting front, arranged by category I guess.

Yarns:

I met up with some Ravelry peeps at Vinni’s (of Vinni’s Colours fame) house for an open day. I dyed some cotton sock yarn!! It was so awesome. I kinda chose colours at random and ended up calling it Melted Barney. It will probably end up as a dress for my niece.

Melted Barney.

At the same open day was a lady from a local alpaca farm, I got this delicious Suri alpaca yarn from her. It’s seriously like liquid chocolate, it’s so silky. I also learned that there are two kinds of alpacas farmed for fleece: Suri (which means silk, and is an apt name) and another one (I have forgotten the name – it’s something with an “H” – and the Wikipedia article is very unhelpful). I can only wear the Suri, the other one is scratchy.

Chocolate Suri alpaca

I met Carlé, who makes hand-dyed sock yarns and gorgeous woven bamboo and banana silk scarves. I bought some blueish sock yarn for Pandasocks.

Blue sock wool.

She also gave me a skein of green sock yarn as I kept picking it up and stroking it. She says to knit a pair of wool socks and try them out as my feet may not be as sensitive as the rest of me.

Green sock wool

I received this Posh Yarn Lisette (aran weight 100% silk – non crunchy) in a trade from the US recently. It’s destined to become a cowl. I think a bright flash of turquoise at the throat is just what one needs in mid-winter.

Posh Yarn silk.

WIPs:

The purplish cashmere I posted last time is currently becoming a birthday scarf for Neil. The pattern is easy to do and not too complicated so it’s ok for TV knitting.

Neil's birthday scarf.

I’m also working on a cabled body-warmer for my niece, no photos as yet.

FOs:

I made some tiny shoes for Scrooblet from the same yarn as the cardi. These are a one-strap version of Saartje’s Booties.

Scrooblet shoes.

And here’s the finished cardigan:

Scrooblet cardi.

I made a Moebius scarf for Mark. It looks very impressive but wasn’t that hard. It was very boring, though.

Mark's Moebius.

And that seems to be all. My drop spindle has arrived, so hopefully the next post will have some handspun to show you. Also, Panda is going to the UK for a bit soon and will return with a suitcase full of Posh Yarn for me, so I’ll have loads of delicious cashmere goodness to upload as well.

Sorry for the lack of much text here, I’m ill and it’s easier to upload pics than to think of interesting things to say about my knitting.

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