A snail’s pace

Well, nothing seems to be growing very fast, and what’s more, all my photos are blurry.

I am doing the armhole shaping on Ylva, with the lovely little cable detail running up it. This has the added advantage of snugging the armhole edge a little bit in the vertical dimension, so I won’t have to worry about it sagging there.

The color of this yarn is hard to describe, it’s sort of part brick and part red rose.

The afghan is still growing, I’m almost halfway through the first of three pattern repeats.

I’m enjoying this knitting, Kathy Zimmerman’s cables are always fascinating.

I started spinning the rainbow-dyed superwash merino for Emily’s scarf. I’m trying for the longest possible color runs, so I’m not splitting the roving lengthwise – I’m just tearing off a section, whacking it on the wheel to soften it up, and then trying very hard to spin one color at a time. It’s working out pretty well, this stuff is easy to spin.

Being short on good fiber material, I have no choice but to fall back on beautiful cats.

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