i think i’m safe enough posting this, as far as i’m aware my dad doesn’t know about this blog. this is his xmas present. it took ages to do and i was pretty sick of it by the time it was finished, although i do think it’s gorgeous, if a little short. no stats.

the yarn is a bfl/tussah silk blend (natural colours) which i spun from the fold, hence the speckly appearance of the silk, as the silk was streaked through the top (lol, i’m sure there’s a technical term for it) so it would appear in clumps during spinning. i found spinning from the fold a complete pita. it seemed to be sooo much slower than my usual semi-worsted spinning from the end of the top. i wanted to try it because the first scarf i made seemed excessively dense. i wanted as much softness as possible, and hoped that using a method that supposedly incorporates more air should be more economical as i only had 200g to work with.

i managed to get into a real mess to start with, absolutely no consistency in the wpi and just not getting it at all. i got some help on spinningfiber, my biggest problem being putting in too much twist for a thick yarn. practise certainly helped, but i can’t say i was particularly enjoying it even at the end. i’d line up a dozen or so staple-length-handfuls which helped keep the momentum going, as joining in every couple of minutes was bugging me, but i never really came to terms with it.

the knitting was very straightforward. just a 2×2 rib. i’m definitely getting faster at combined knitting. i love the way the variation in the weight of the yarn comes out in the knitting, making gentle undulations in the line of the ribbing.

rubbish blurry pix, still waiting on gallery plugin upgrade.