In Which the Pirate is Almost There.

I have just one last skein of the Unicorn Spit fibre to spin!

840 yards of finished (though unwashed) three-ply yarn and just over a hundred grams left to go. It’s really neat to see how the big stripes of colour in the fibre get so blended into the yarn, which is exactly the heathery desaturated colour that I was hoping for when I chose the “ingredients” for the blend.

I really hope that I come up with enough for a sweater – and if not, I have more yarn (of course I do) that I can use as a supplement. I think a few navy stripes on the sleeves or around the hem might look really nice.

I finally figured out how to do the patterned crown decreases so that I could finish knitting my Passing Days hat, just in time for an unseasonable cold snap.

It fits wonderfully and I’m so happy with the way it came out! Friend Stef came over earlier this week to take pictures of me wearing it, and we had a lot of fun doing the photoshoot. I’ll be writing up the pattern for release in the next few days, so keep an eye out for it!

On the subject of cold snaps, I need a new pair of Fleeps (some people call them flip-top or convertible mittens). I’d like to use this Corriedale handspun for the outside, and line the wrists and mitten-top with this blue silk. I spun both yarns last summer with this project in mind, and I’m excited to get started. So far I’ve swatched the Corriedale:

I like the drape of it on size 5 (3.75mm) needles, but I want my mittens to be a little more dense, so I tried again with size 4 (3.5mm). It’s not much difference – 18 stitches/4 inches as opposed to 17 – but enough to be noticeable, and I think the finished fleeps will be better for it. Hopefully they won’t be so thick that I can’t move my fingers!