I’ve started the first piece in the new collection (with yarn arriving quickly for the other pieces). Just before the weekend* I started the colorwork. Right now it seems like two shades of black. It may not actually look different enough to show in the end, but I’m rolling with it. I am reminded of Archer though, with his turtlenecks of black and a slightly darker shade of black.
The yarn for this one is Fancy Tiger Heirloom Romney, which is such a lovely toothy wool! It’s dyed (and now distributed to other shops!) by Jeane deCoster who does an amazing line of North American Shetland over at Elemental Affects.
I’ve also been interspersing some sewing and English paper piecing with the knitting. I’m dying to start a new dress, but want to finish the segments on fitting a muslin in my dressmaking class before I get too deep into it, so I was consoling myself with digging through the fabric stash and plotting. I came across a half-yard of Anna Maria Horner Voile that I had accidentally ordered from Hawthorne Threads thinking it was standard quilting weight cotton. So I followed Fancy Tiger’s lead, but just folded my half-yard in half instead of using two different fabrics. Then, since the part I liked best was right along the fold, I shifted it so the seam goes down the center of the tube before I sewed it into a möbius. It’s light and easy to wear and I forsee it being a great gift with a bit less happenstance to it 🙂 I’ve also determined that I need to plan more projects using Voile!
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*In my ever-evolving quest to find balance in my work/home life – since I work from home and disconnecting is hard – I’ve started working on personal projects on the weekends and only doing “work” knitting during the week. We’ll see how it goes.
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