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September 23, 2005
I had forgotten...
This new knit I am working on has some real subtle shading going on so when I finished the first ball I wanted to wait til morning's better light for next ball pickage. I ended up ripping my RS and using my handy dandy niddy noddy for reskeining. While I was reskeining I went ahead and did the Donegal Tweed from my recently ripped Rogue. I twisty tied them together last night and here you see the results. Pretty nice together IMO. The purple tweed just happens to have a few indigo flecks but the picture is a wee bit overexposed. Anyway those yarns are now sitting in a sink soaking up some dekinking water. The K1C2 knit:
I am really enjoying this yarn. Its a single ply with obviously long color transitions. Very nice. It feels kinda lanolin~y. So much so that I actually sniffed the yarn a few times but no discernable sheepy smell. I am using my Noble Needles. I rarely knit with them for fear that they will break. Plus I tend to use smaller needles and those, in wood, tend to appear fragile. When I first started knitting as an adult I purchased Brittany Walnut needles. I liked the ornate turnings at knob end and the rich brown color. Then I purchased Knitting in Plain English, Sweater Workshop, Knitting in the Old Way, and EZ's books. I was a convert to circular needles.
BTW SP since its a Q on Questionaire I wouldn't mind a copy of Fee's book since its a new revised and I parted with my old version a while ago.
The real problem with being a circular needle convert lies in the obvious lack of wooden needles for circular knitters. Every time I knit with wooden needles I slow down and enjoy the whole process more. Very sensual. More so than the most luxe of handpainted yarns. I may have to get some Lantern Moon needles at Rhinebeck and ignore the whole circularly knit thing. Totally serious here~ I had forgotten how much I enjoyed knitting until I picked up my Nobles.*
Happy Knitting
*they are no longer in production so I am not fishing for Nobles from my SP
Posted by Elka at 11:11 AM