If I was knitting little shawls for my sheepy around-the-house ornaments, this would be a finished object! But I'm not, that is a swatch. And if I was swatching for a new lace shawl, then the swatch would have made me happy and I would have cast on by now. While I am swatching and the swatch did make me happy, the swatch was a sample of some spinning, and now I just need to continue on. With the spinning. And the plying.
A Spirit Trail Fiberworks Club offering, this is an alpaca/merino/silk blend that I started spinning on a drop spindle last spring. Like most of what I do, I was going great guns practically non-stop until, well. I stopped. I have three pretty full cops of singles that are dead, dead, dead, but I plied up a bit and decided, before I plied the whole bunch and ended up with a lot of crap, to sample it. While it isn't the best spinning on earth, I love it. It is soft and knit up so beautifully that I can't wait to finish the spinning and plying. It is a fairly respectable laceweight, which is what I was going for. If I wasn't feeling so lazy I would get up and do a wraps per inch measurement, heck, even I'd like to know that, but I'm just too tired to find out now. Someday.
Thirty-six. Maybe tomorrow I'll show another finished object! Could happen.
A beautiful swatch shawl for the sheepy and it'll be awesome in an adult size for you. Nice spindle spinning!
Posted by: Manise | March 11, 2009 at 06:56 AM
The yarn is gorgeous! Nice work. Are you going to spindle spin the whole 4 oz?
Posted by: margene | March 11, 2009 at 07:28 AM
Beautiful! t
Posted by: Tammy | March 11, 2009 at 09:01 AM
Gorgeous! Too funny. I'm doing exactly the same thing with the Forrester spindle I bought at SPA. I have all these beautiful spindles and never used them so I'm knitting a little old shale scarf right off the spindle. I think my spindle spinning has already improved a great deal and I'm only knitting the 2nd spindle full.
Posted by: Jean | March 11, 2009 at 09:24 AM
Looking good!! I've been spinning and plying since SPA -- seems to have gotten my mojo going!!
Posted by: Kathy | March 11, 2009 at 11:20 AM
It's lovely.
Posted by: Carole | March 11, 2009 at 11:35 AM
Love it! The swatch looks like a cape for Super Sheep. :)
Posted by: Chris | March 11, 2009 at 02:47 PM
Lovely!
Posted by: Renee | March 11, 2009 at 04:11 PM
Breath-taking! I...I...I...I'm speech-less. :)
Posted by: Lisa McGuire | March 11, 2009 at 09:09 PM
Don't Lie, that swatch is, in all actuality, a shawl for an american girl doll. You just don't have one yet, but someday I'll have children, and my child might want a shawl for her American Girl Doll, and you'll be like "well I have just the thing!"
So you didn't know it yet, but that's what that swatch is for. Your knitting can see the future!
Posted by: MEG | March 12, 2009 at 12:49 AM
Beeutiful spinning grrl!
Posted by: Kim | March 12, 2009 at 07:53 AM
Nice spinning! It's going to be a beautiful FO. I know what you mean about the WPIs. Should, never do.
Posted by: Laurie | March 12, 2009 at 08:57 AM