April 12, 2020

Yarn, spinning, colours, heat/warmth, singles…..confession, I have spun yarn for this ages ago, the yarn has then marinated in my stash for quite some time, I even picked and blended colours with a lot of focus on making the yarn in the Spirit of Noro and this turned me into a huuuge coward when it was time for knitting. Essentially because hand spun singles look and feel nothing like Noro or any commercial single really and then the bright colours felt ‘wrong’. They have twist bounce, shine, life, a certain squishiness, and said squishiness makes them feel like…..air, quite the opposite to commercial singles which are chunky with a substantial feel to them. Now, singles is something I love to spindle spin, thin, with lots of twist. This is the opposite. If you read this far, yes it is a whinge, mostly aimed at myself and my lack of experience knitting, wearing hand spun singles yarn, I tend to favour two or multiplys. But, nothing ventured, nothing gained. Yes, Noro Kureyon lives is this stash but was thinking it was destined for other projects. So…..Handspun No Noro, handspun weird wispy yarn, yes, lots of procrastination.

April 24, 2020

Cast on around 99 stitches each, knit front and back separately, seamed, then decided on 12 stitch+12+1 modules instead. I am afraid that my garter triangles are bulging a bit when switching to modular knitting. The colours I spun ages ago for this project, and I am scratching my head over why I chose rust, baby pink, lime green, teal, maroon, dirty yellow/ochre, dark blue and various other mixed dark shades. Purple green, yes yes, always a fave. Anyhow, my modules seem fairly small and a bit lopsided, so plenty of opportunities for colours as I will need a few extra rows!

April 26, 2020

Plugging along. I add more and more colours and it gets brighter and brighter.

May 2, 2020

Have finished and attached arms, just to check the size. Added 1+0.5+0.5 squares at the back so there won’t be a V at the back, more rounded.
Anyhow, I have quite a bit of yarn left appears I will need it for the upper bits.
The bulging garter stitch triangles at the bottom still bulge but when wearing, it moulds itself nicely around my bacon so the bulges turned out for the best! So far…lol!

May 4, 2020

Almost done, going to give it a good soak, and then check to see how much deeper I want the collar to be…or not. I was a bit blown away how bit it is but it is all in the design :)
Wash, hot water, and now we wait.

May 12, 2020

Finally dry after that good soak n wash. Bit blown away how body hugging it turned out to be at this stage with the top bit still left yo do. Blown away is probably a good name for the whole process, you think it’ll be same or similar, and the knitting is…knitting, and colours and then it suddenly morphs into something else. I describe it badly.

It also turned out to be very elastic despite the modules, so can readily pull the sweater from my body for a wide gap, but then it zings back to body hugging. Quite a wide neck opening, hmm. Still feels ok. A few gazillion ends but a crochet hook makes work quick.

Colours sing, crackle and pop. Gosh it is like finding a green cushion in a forest full of berries, treasures, autumn leaves, mushrooms and lichen. Hand spun singles, the wispy ones I was agonising over. And there are LEFTOVERS!

Channelling my best Little Richard yowl there.
More photos to come…..

May 19, 2020

Found a stash entry; 2012 TDF spinning majority of the yarns used are shown in one bright photo!