An Odd Case of Fidelity

     Perhaps I am having a mature moment of stick-to-itiveness, or maybe it's thoughts of Spring, gardens, and sprouting seeds distracting me from thoughts of knitting projects. For maybe the second time in my knitting life, I am only working on one knitting project at a time.

     The socks from last week. I love this "Bamboo and Ewe" yarn, the color and the texture. It makes a sock that is almost too warm for me to wear!

     I like to start one sock, work it through the heel flap, then start the second one. I go back and forth like that to keep from getting SSS, and to keep the pattern in mind. I know how to knit two pair on one set of circs, but I don't like to do that when there is a pattern involved. I work the gusset through the decreases, then switch to the other one. I really hope I have better luck closing the toes on this pair ... I still wince when I put on the Interlochen Socks with the awful toes.

     I have also been spinning madly.

The rust BFL, on a bed of unspun Golden Harvest BFL:

Other FOs:

     Bottom right is the Falkland-bamboo-Angelina mix, single-ply. In the middle is more BFL, "Golden Harvest" by skeinweinder123 on Etsy. I'm in the middle of spinning this up, it's about half done. And on the left is the Rust BFL.

     My roving basket, full of wooly goodness ... white Corriedale, purple, brown, pink merino, the Golden Harvest BFL, yellow merino, and Rust BFL. I still have alpaca and baby camel to spin, not in the picture. They stick to everything, so I segregate them.

Merino from Lunabudknits. Not started yet, but it's calling to me ....












     As I posted last week, I was home sick for a few days. For most of 6 days, as it turned out, and I had no desire to move off of my couch. I knitted, I spun, I spindled ... and after about day four, I grew tired of even that, but my head hurt too much to try to read or do crossword puzzles. So ... I started another hobby.

Scrapbooking.

Specifically, scrapbooking my hand-spun knitted projects. This is the Arachne Cowl, which was a gift to a co-worker. I noted the yarn used, the book and project, how spun, etc.

The Multnomah shawl ...

The Wonder Why Alpaca Wrap.












    

     A few years ago I bought scrapbooking stuff, but lost interest very quickly. Luckily, I bought just enough to get a good start without having to run out to the store for more. It was just complicated enough to keep me occupied, but not so gripping that I felt like I would do this obsessively (as I do with knitting and spinning).  I hope to record each of my handspun knitting projects, or my large projects such as sweaters, etc. So now I have record of my knitting projects on Ravelry, on this blog, photos in Flickr and Snapfish ... and now in an album. Redundant much?

     Happy Fiber Arts Friday, everyone!