As promised, here are some shots of the SeaWool I bought from Creatively Dyed Yarn. First of all, it is so soft. Seriously, it's the softest stuff I've ever worked with, except maybe silk, and it practically spins itself.
And a close up of the singles:
There's eight ounces there, and I'm spindle spinning it up into something that'll be laceweight when plied (two strand; three's a little thick for what I want). For all that there's some really saturated bits, most of the fiber is light enough that when I spin it, it comes out this lovely opal-ish color. I think when I ply it up and knit it into some shawl or another (I haven't decided yet which one), it's going to be freaking gorgeous.
There was knitting this week, too. Sort of. See, there was a disastrous occurrence. That I documented in gruesome detail so as to be able to share it with you. Let me preface this by saying that I finished the back of the Chocolate Twist a while ago.
I was knitting on the fronts (both of them together, to prevent total nervous breakdown later when trying to match not only the fronts to the back, but also to each other) and things were going swimmingly. And really fast. To get up to the armscye bind-offs, I needed to finish three cable repeats plus a little bit.
I got to that point and thought, 'Wow, that went awesomely fast. I should probably check to make sure the fronts and the backs match. I'm not so worried about it, since I've been slavishly following my notes and everything, but sill. Just in case.'
So I did. The fronts were a good inch and a half shorter than the back. When I started breathing again, I tried to figure out why. As a fun exercise, I'm going to put it to you, gentle readers; what did I do wrong?
Didn't get it? Look again:
That's right. Those bits where there's two cable side by side, they're meant to have two twists each. Not one. About three minutes after I stopped beating my head against the wall for being such an idiot, my poor sweater looked more like this:
And now that I'm seeing these pictures, it looks like I'll have to rip back to the ribbing, as the cables there should have an extra twist, too.
Sigh.