NOT knitting (spinning news)
I know I told myself I wasn’t allowed to knit anything until I finished my mountain of editing, but last night while relaxing in front of Netflix with Mr. StringFactory, I realized I didn’t tell myself I wasn’t allowed to spin anything.
I know; I know.
The thing is, I’m totally going to need more yarn for baby knitting next week when I’m done my project! I dusted off my spinning wheel and extricated the mind-numbingly fine yarn I’d been plying:
I also skeined up the tiny amount of finished yarn, so I could reclaim the bobbin. It was the barest handful of fiber, but I counted out 40 yards of it. Out of curiosity, I weighed it:
My postal scale says 10 grams. I am tempted to find out how many yards per pound that works out to, but I am too pregnant to deal with the math. A few calculations in the google search window work it out to 0.000551155655 pounds per yard, but I am far too pregnant-brained to deal with it from there. I know you have to divide something to solve for X, but I’m far too mentally exhausted to reliably navigate the morass of middle-school algebra.
Speaking of pregnancy brain, here’s a picture of me (and my husband) from a wedding we attended this past Saturday:
What I lack in mental acuity at this point I clearly make up for in roundness.
Anyhow, now that I’ve got three free bobbins I’m spinning up a wonderfully boring little two-ply merino worsted:
I would have preferred to spin a three-ply worsted (for increased durability as well as general aesthetic reasons) but since one of my four bobbins is occupied, a two ply will have to do. I know I could have chain-plied my singles yarn into a three-ply, but I really want to err on the side of evenness. (I generally consider myself to be a pretty good spinner, but I still have a hard time staying uniform over multiple bobbins.)
When I’ve got enough of it to knit a pair of longies, I’ll kettle dye it periwinkle and get to town on a little frankenpattern I’ve been cooking up in the back of my head–I want the Curly Purly Soaker waistband, Elizabeth Zimmerman’s butt and gusset (from the February chapter of Knitter’s Almanac), and a pair of plain straight stockinette legs that I can have fun embellishing. My only question is how long to make the legs–since the bun’s still in the oven, I have no concept of what sort of inseam she’ll require.
Of course, I will knit none of this until I’m done my work. I won’t even swatch! I now hereby abandon this blog until I’ve finished editing the first four chapters of Applied Linear Models with SAS. But I reserve the right to take spinning breaks. And, um, dye the yarn.
March 24th, 2009 at 3:09 pm
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May 19th, 2010 at 8:31 pm
Knitting is one of my favorite hobbies, i was able to make some nice hadkerchiefs and towels.,;”
July 25th, 2010 at 9:19 am
my sister always love knitting, she loves to knit customized patterns.`.;