Ribbit Ribbit

So I've actually frogged two projects in as many days.  First, my Wisp which I had been working on when a bunch of the stitches just fell off the needles. Since I was only a few rows in and I kind of wanted the needles for something else anyway I decided to just pull it apart. I also frogged my Welig gloves because I could already tell that they were not going to fit. I was working them on a smaller needle size than I should have, and they were absolutely going to be too small.

My spinning has stalled a bit, since the project I'm working on requires single ply silver lame thread and I could only find two-ply at the craft store where I work (!!!), and since my spindle is occupied with the yarn it's meant for, I'm going to have to unply it the hard way, which I've been avoiding like the plague.

More later, I'm late for a blood drive!

Update? Blog? What?

So about trying to make this blog a daily occurrence... *anyway* I've been somewhat busy over these past two months (I'm rounding up a little to make my return seem more epic) and part of it has been due to the activities mentioned in this here blog. I did finish the FDP, and as for individual reports on each color as it's dyed, well that ship has sailed. But there are still individual reports on each color as I spin with it! Which reminds me...

That's a yarn I'm calling 'Cake Frosting' that I spun up using wool dyed with Ancient Mirage and Queen Mab. I also spun up all of some grey that I dyed *I think* with Bastet into a very thin single, which was upleasantly tedious, but oh, I have plans for it.

On the knitting front, I've been getting a bunch of lovely yarn over at Woolcott & Co. in Harvard Square for several different projects. I cast on for Knitty's Wisp in some light pink Rowan Kidsilk Haze (I think the colorway is called Grace). I did a few rows and although I'm not a huge fan of working 'airy' lace I like the finished product enough that I'm sure I'll get through it.

I also cast on for the Welig gloves from Knitting New Mittens and Gloves by Robin Melanson. I love this book and have tabbed off a bunch of patterns in it. I'm using the book recommended yarn which is Nashua Handknits Julia (mine is a light sage green) and I have to say that it is both really lovely to work with and very nice for the pattern. 

My mother/daughter Lizard Ridge project is fairly steady, if slow, and I've currently got fifteen squares done out of the fifty that I need (ugh).  I've mentally nicknamed the pattern 'lizard rudge' for no reason that I can fathom.