The “evil merino” soaker

Not the best picture for sure, since I just plopped it down on my sad excuse for daffodils and the light is all wonky and I didn’t even really attempt to straighten anything out.. but you get the idea The waist and leg cuffs are Paton’s Merino.

The first bobbin of the Merino/Tussah

Still not sure I like the colors, but we’ll see what it looks like once I spin the rest and ply it.

..on the updating, at least

I finished the soaker I’ve been working on from the “evil merino” yarn. It came out ok, a little bigger than planned, but it will definately be usable, but I can’t get a decent picture of it inside, and I keep forgetting to take it outside.. so hopefully I’ll remember to do that soon.

I started on a pair of mittens for DD - not sure why, as it’s not really that cold and I don’t think she’d wear them anyways, but they’re cute, darnit! I linked to the pattern in my sidebar - it’s free. I’m knitting them from some of my “stash” yarn.. the stuff I am trying to find things to do with.

I got some merino/tussah from Spinning Bunny last week and I’ve been trying to resist it until my Rose arrives, but I finally gave in last night. Between what little time I’ve had to spin over the weekend, I’ve got almost 2oz of it spun on my hitchhiker, destined to be a fingering weight 2-ply, and I hope to finish that bobbin and make a good start on the other half of the fiber on a second bobbin tomorrow, with plans to finish that up Tuesday - when I’m *hoping* my Rose will be here so I can ply it on that - I can’t ply all 4oz on one bobbin on the HH, so it better be here soon! It feels like I’ve been waiting forever (it’s been nearly 3 weeks now!), but it supposedly shipped last Tuesday/Wednesday (depending on how you interperet the international date line) so it should be here sometime this week.

I’m not sure I’m in love with the color of the Merino/Tussah though, as I was expecting more vibrant colors of greens and pink, but since it wasn’t, it’s coming out somewhat of a dreary khaki color. I might overdye it when it’s done.. but I’ll wait to see how it looks as yarn before deciding for sure.

Since I couldn’t resist using my 15% off coupon for fabric.com….

I’m hoping the tangerine is a tad bit more orangey…

Yay!

It’s currently blocking on my bed (which explains the light green background ) but it looks like it came out to be a decent size. I ended up doing 3 extra repeats, and now that I’m finished I think I may have had enough yarn leftoever for a 4th, but since I’m happy with the overall size, I’ll get over it

There will be more… this one didn’t actually use up nearly as much yarn as I had hoped it would It’s about 36″x45″

I’m not sure if I want to crochet a border or add a backing.. but I washed it and blocked it, and I’ll figure that out when it’s dry