Knitting Updates


I'm so green...

... with my new green yarn from Elann. Gonna make me a neck-down roll sweater like I made for Elric last year, this time from a blue-green wool that was at elann.com -- with my discounts from previous purchases, plus money I already had in the PayPal account from my eBay sales , it was only $13 total, including shipping. Yippee!

Lookie --

All wound off, using the table swift and ball winder Kate found for me at her knitting store workplace (a place of great temptation, indeed).

This is Araucania Natural Wool , dye color number 13: "Atlantis." The photo doesn't do it justice to its color values of green-blue. The wool was clearly dyed in the hank, by hand, and so there are many variations in the colors, which are knitting up to a sort of heathered look, at times almost a camouflagued color pattern of small blotches. It's rather nice, but not what I expected from "hand-dyed" wool. Most hand dyeing is done in the wool, not in the yarn or hank, and so has a more subtle variation.

I'm done with the main body to just below the arm separations, and am doing the left arm now. I should be done with the entire sweater in a few weeks, at a leisurely rate.

Posted: Sun - November 2, 2003 at 12:38 PM