This past Summer has been a busy one. So many things to do, along with work, and places to go, people (A-b) visiting and going places with him.
We've had fresh tomatoes from my garden, the planters on the balcony. I also have had a cucumber and lettuce. There have been plenty of pumpkin blossoms, but no little pumpkins yet.
I finally completed the spinning of 8 ozs. of a merino wool that I picked up last October at the Montpelier fiber festival. It seemed to take f-o-r-e-v-e-r to spin this fiber. I have had it on the Scholar since November. 
This is what the yarn turned out like, it's a little washed out in this photo. I am not too pleased with the plying job, but the yarn is knitting into a really nice shawl, so far. There are color changes from purple to green with a little blue and white thrown in there also. I really do like how the shawl is turning out. I hope the intended recipient will like it also. I ended up with 1038 yards of a 2-ply fingering/lace-weight yarn. I think there is enough to finish the shawl I'm working on and then some fingerless mitts or some other small thing.I am hoping to do better at posting on the blog. School will start the 8th of September, so I need a schedule worked out by then and with a schedule I think I will post better.
Well, off to get something done before work. Happy knitting and spinning.
3 comments:
Those are pretty colors! It's exciting that you have ripe tomatoes, too. I have a ton of tomatoes, some are even getting BIG, but none are showing even the slightest bit of red yet. I'm growing impatient!
Wow, I really like the color(s). It turned out really nice. You should post of picture of the roving you were spinning with the finished skein :). Gives us good over all picture of start to finish and what a particular colorway will look like spun up :). You know all of us inquiring minds out there. :)
I've taken to picking my tomoatoes green and letting them ripen on the window seal, they aren't getting ripe on the vine very quickly :( Well all except the grape tomatoes which are going crazy :P.
That sounds like the ideal yarn to me. Very cool.
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