May Wrap-Up

 

Fiber Prep

• Corriedale combing
• Gulf Coast Native Rolags

Spinning

Flatiron

• I've been spinning up the Gulf Coast Native rolags I'm making.  I have filled up 2 full bobbins of singles and rewound them and have nearly finished a 3rd 4 oz bobbin of singles
• I snagged 4 oz of Santa Cruz roving and started spinning that.  The advertisement for it suggested it was for "experienced" spinners and I understood why from my previous experience with a little bit of raw Santa Cruz fleece and from the pictures.  It will be someone slow going I think, but it is going.  I spun enough to get a good feel for how it needs to be spun but then I went  back to working on the GCN.

Kiwi 3

• I've spun a little Corriedale this month but have been working on other pursuits. 

Knitting 

Finished

• Sport-weight Stroll socks
• DRK Everyday sweater 
• Endelaus Cowl

On the Needles

• Festive Sweater KAL Pullover by Skeindeer Knits
• New cast on: Nightshift by Andrea Mowry.  This is a just-for-fun sort of diversion knit and a good way to use some of my handspun stash!

Frogged

• I cast on a new pair of socks, the pattern "Oona" from 52 Weeks of Socks.  I thought the lace chart would be easy enough I could memorize but it turns out I screwed it up.  I was also just not enjoying the socks that much, I was knitting on US 0 which is not something I enjoy and on top of that the yarn has a lot of twist in it and kept kinking up.  All that added up to sending them to the frog pond.  I am really not in sock mode right now either.