Thursday, August 27, 2009

How to spin my Posy Toes batts--Snake Plant


The Snake Plant socks are finished! I have 80 yards left of the yarn, and realize that I never posted the total yardage. And now I've either lost the notes or packed them in some box somewhere. Oh well....

At any rate, they are thick, soft and spongy to walk on. I think they will do well in my Birkie clogs this fall and winter. Too thick for dress socks, tho. But it's nice to know how this particular method works up. Notice how different the striping is on the socks? That's due to the haphazard way in which I just grabbed a handful of fiber and spun it up.

I'm working my way through the Sweet Peas fiber. I have one sock started and the second bobbin ready to ply. Will post pix next week and talk about yardage, wpi and all the other techie stuff. In the meantime, here's a panarama (left to right, back of the house to front of the house) of my studio 2 months ago when we moved my fiber/yarn boxes in. I've added a dissembled loom, a carding table and some more boxes since but at least I have all the books on the shelves and the sock fiber unearthed so I can make sock batts for Etsy. Just have to figure out which fiber will be stored in the knee walls and how to know what's stashed in which cubby.





5 comments:

Doris Sturm said...

Those socks look warm and cozy. One of these days I'll have to knit some for myself and experience the difference ;-)

I bet your glad to have a studio for all your supplies and such. I don't have much room in my little apartment and am constantly shuffling boxes around ...

Nice to hear from you again.

Alpaca Girl said...

Cute socks!! I knitted a pair of socks last year - probably the only pair I will do.

Feisty said...

Thanks to both of you for your kind comments. Yes, so very nice to have a big studio space now!

Annie said...

And... this disassembled loom? Will it be assembled soon?
(I finally had a look at your blog again, as you can see)
All these boxes would make me so nervous. Moving is one of the most horrible things I can think of.
Hope you'll find time to do things you really like soon.

Feisty said...

LOL! I KNEW you'd be the one to notice I hadn't gotten the loom operating yet!