Tuesday, April 4, 2017

Crafting on -1- Sweater Complete & Socks Cruising

Joining Nicole at Frontier Dreams for my first ever Crafting On. I am a bit sad the yarn along is over, but I am looking forward to making new friends and finding new inspiration at Crafting On.

 First I took this last week for the yarn along, then reading that Ginny was done, did not post about it so here goes. It is finally done. I love how it turned out! This is Mouse's favorite sweater now and he wore it to school on Friday and Monday. It is Elizabeth Zimmerman's Percentage system with six Pikachu heads done in Intarsia in the round with insanity. He gave me a kiss for each row. I actually did each head twice as I pulled in too much the first time trying to do it a stranded colorwork.

 My socks are coming along great! The pattern is Mina Philip's Vanilla sock recipe. The yarn is 75% Correidale and 25% Nylon. My spinning guild did this dyeing project last fall, one of the ladies has a knitting machine so she whipped up two stranded knitting blanks for everyone and we got together and dyed them. The above shot represents the colors better, but I wanted to show that I have the heels done.

This is what is on my spinning wheel right now. Brown Sheep wool that I dyed with acid based dyes. I have two bobbins done and ready for me to make the single to ply it with. I also finished a new podcast video, link here.

I am looking forward to seeing what everyone is working on! ~Julia
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  1. Laura GesinApril 4, 2017 at 9:18 AM

    My son would've LOVED that pikachu sweater back in the day, but I'm not sure I'd have the patience for that. Your's is beautiful!

    I too am sad about the yarn along ending. I loved waking up on Wednesday and reading everyone's blogs but completely understand why it ended and am looking at it as a new opportunity! look forward to reading your blog going forward :)

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    1. JuliaApril 5, 2017 at 9:03 AM

      His obvious love of the project helped my patience! Thank you.

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  2. CherylApril 5, 2017 at 11:04 AM

    I am not surprised, one little bit, that your son loves his new sweater. The pokemon heads are perfect. Lucky boy! Beautiful colour for your socks too. Missing the yarn along, but loving finding new blogs through the Crafting on linky.

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    1. JuliaApril 6, 2017 at 7:31 AM

      I am also enjoying finding new blogs and starting to feel like sewing and such when lately I have been very into knitting.

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