RPM and WPI

I’ve finished the first of my rpm socks.
Pattern: rpm
Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock (colour 188)
Needles: 2.25mm
Size: 63 sts
Notes: I really like the pattern, but somehow I keep screwing part of it up… whatever, it looks fine. I was a little worried that I was making them too big, but if anything they are a bit snug, [...]

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Massive Post of Too Long Since My Last Update

So how’ve you been?  Me… busy, school, work, flu… you know… the usual.
I have knit almost nothing at all, instead I’ve been sewing (more below).  I did go and ply the ingeo, and if spinning it was a bitch, plying was x400 worse.  After major vain attempts to ply it on the wheel (together with [...]

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ooohhh silk…

I started spinning with the silk hankies (thanks Amelia for the encouragement), and then decided I’d just go ahead and dye them.  I’ve got a couple layers left natural and then I divided the rest into four roughly even sections and dyed each one a different colour (gold, red, burgundy, and purple).  I soaked them [...]

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