Monday, March 11, 2019

Puttering

It feels like I've just been puttering, doing small projects.
For starters, some years ago, I wove this yardage for curtains. I don't remember why I took them down, but our old front door curtains needed to be replaced and they did the trick!
I finished the last baby blanket on Sophie.
And I've been playing with more of the crocheted creatures from Edward's Animals. Here's a Lakeland Terrier,
 
a Cocker Spaniel,
and a gray cat.
 
My grandbaby needed a hat for Groundhog Day.

And he definitely needed a Dude sweater!


This may not look like puttering to you, but for whatever reason, this time around, each step to dress Julia has felt like a separate project. This Tencel basketweave will be yardage.
 
This is the first time I've ever knitted up a swatch and actually washed it. My usual is to knit it up, measure to make sure I'm getting the right number of stitches per inch and rip it back out.

I just finished spinning this fiber with Gingie and plying it with Suzie.

And next up is this cotton.
This "wool" was spun up, but not plied, because I didn't know what I wanted to do with it. Typical. Anyway, when I realized I needed a hat, I went ahead and took the singles and Navajo plied it (finger crocheting the spun fiber while spinning it some more). 

Knitting it up took no time, so, here we are!