Although I'm still enjoying the experience of spinning this fiber (Crown Mountain Farms Corriedale pencil roving), I'm really ready for a new color. Once I finish up the fourth bobbin of this, I'll have spun 8 ounces of this colorway -- and I suppose it doesn't help that the socks I'm knitting are out of the yarn spun from the first half of the fiber.
Because I don't have a whole lot of spinning to share with you today, I thought I'd share my most recent stash acquisitions. I think I mentioned last week that I signed up for the Through the Loops mystery shawl, so my task when I was at my LYS yesterday was to find appropriate yarn. I needed sport weight in three colors, and I knew I wanted a solid or a nearly solid. I finally settled on this Louet Gems.
I picked (in order, from left to right) Caribbean Blue, Pewter, and Linen Gray. These are colors I wear on a regular basis, so the finished shawl should coordinate well with my wardrobe.
I also picked up this beauty:
This is Done Roving Yarns' Frolicking Feet in the colorway Cloverleaf. This 100% superwash merino is new to my LYS. I managed to resist it for several weeks but couldn't turn away from its siren song any longer. I'll be using this for a lace shawlette -- hopefully the one I started designing in my Kirsten Kapur class from about a month ago.
The week ahead looks to be even crazier than the last, but I am pushing on with my sweater as I must finish it before the end of the month. Keep your fingers crossed that I pick up some speed and have a finished item to show you before this time next week!
Great color choices for the mystery shawl!! I still have to pick mine.
ReplyDeleteI think that that green qualifies as colour therapy. It makes me feel better just looking at it!
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