Weekend Spinning
I did get my goals met over the weekend. After I got the yarns in yesterday’s post off the wheel I went to town on the gorgeous batts from Terrabellaspun. I spun up all 6 ounces on Saturday and plied and soaked
on Sunday.
It was dry by Monday afternoon for the Avo’s knitting group. I was running behind on getting out the door so I brought my nostepinne and wound one hank into a ball while there and started the swatching process. I got a nice fabric on US11s and about the gauge I was hoping for too.
Yesterday I crunched numbers and last evening I knit the final project up. It was a 3 Buffy project (that was with some sizeable breaks to snack and/or give the show my undivided attention), LOL! :-) It took less than one hank of the handspun. I haven’t weighed the leftovers or the hat yet, but I’m guessing it took 50-60 yds. It’s a titch smaller on me than I like that sort of project to fit (but I can wear it), which is perfect.
I just can’t believe that even with the spinning it really only took about 5 hours or so total! That doesn’t count the swatching and number crunching or the drying time of course. But from batt to FO in 5 hours? Why didn’t I embrace bulky earlier? LOL!
Alas, I can’t show you the project for probably at least a year! You’ll have to suffer with not knowing what it is while I suffer with not sharing it with you.
