Fingering weight?

Here are two skeins of yarn that arrived this week.

It isn’t obvious in the picture, but the top skein is larger than the bottom skein.  The top is 425 yards and 100 grams.  The bottom is 415 yards and 100 grams.  They are both fingering.  It is just sort of strange.  They are clearly different thicknesses.

The top one is Splendiferous from The Dyeing Arts.  The colorway is Exterminate.  It is part of a Doctor Who club.  A few other goodies came with it including a Dalek stitch marker.  I got a K-9 marker in a previous shipment.  That marker was sitting in a little dish that holds knitting odds and ends.  One night I turned off the lamp and there was a glow coming from the dish.  The darn stitch marker glows in the dark!  I love things that do that.

The bottom one is from The Wandering Flock and is called Ombre Skies.  I don’t remember what motivated me to get it, but I like it.  It reminds me a bit of Hedgehog Fibres singles.

I did frog the tiger socks, I haven’t started the masks yet, and the new sweater is in time out.  There is no problem with the sweater other than having to knit several inches of stockinette before the colorwork starts.  I am working on the Safe in the City blanket.  It is going to be a bigger project than I anticipated.  Gee, Paula, what gave you the idea that something called a blanket wouldn’t be a big project?  D’oh!

Works sort of in progress

Both of the hat kits are done but they need blocking.  So do two sweaters.

Ixchel sweater body has been re-reknit.  The sleeves may or may not have enough yarn to be done.  I decided to be safe and order another skein of yarn.  The yarn isn’t available yet.

I started another sweater.  I knit this much stockinette and got bored.  The interesting stuff comes after about 9 inches.  This is too much when I am going through a short attention span phase.

I started some socks with this tiger stripe yarn I just had to buy.  The stripes don’t look remotely like the ones on the box.  The feet are too big (totally my fault).  They are inching toward the frog pond.

The shark sock kit has about 2 inches done on one foot.  The construction is fairly elaborate.  The sharks are in time out.

The Safe in the City Blanket caught my eye.  The designer said it was done with worsted weight leftovers.  I decided to try it using fingering weight held double.  It will force me to tidy up my stash to find the nearly 20 skeins that are needed.  We shall see how soon that happens.  Expect much complaining about ends that have to be woven in.

I may throw in the towel on all of this stuff for the moment.  I know where to find some fun fabric.  If I can locate some elastic, I will make some masks until my attitude adjusts itself.

Kits plus one

Yesterday was a good mail day.  I got the latest Knitting Our National Parks yarn from Indie Untangled.

It is called Rialto Beach and is one of my favorite blends (Merino/cashmere/nylon).  The dyer is McMullin Fiber Co.

I happened upon Heritage Spinning and Weaving online somewhere.  I am not sure exactly what led me to them.  I enjoy making fair isle style hats so these kits caught my eye.  I am from Michigan originally so the Great Lakes hat looked like something I would like to make

The kits contain Jamieson’s Shetland wool.  I have used that before and like it.  The hat was designed for this year’s Michigan Fiber Festival.  They had a kit for last year’s festival, so I had to get it also.

MDSW goodies

I have all the yarn I ordered from the virtual Maryland Sheep and Wool event.  It was a little bit like actually going, because I ended up with a lot of little bonus things besides the yarn.  There were cards, buttons, a soap sample and several mini skeins.  I decided to go for yarn that was dyed specifically for the event.

From left to right:  Hope Springs from Toad Hollow, May Flowers from Bumblebee Acres,  Purple Joy and Exuberance from Miss Babs,  Dandelions and Daffodils from Cece’s Wool.

From left to right:  Shark Week kit, First Time for Everything from A Hundred Ravens, Power to the Protectors from Avalon Springs.