Plight of fancy

The headcold from hades is still in residence.  My head is thrumming like an overfull water balloon and might actually feel better if it just got on with exploding messily.  *sigh*

Planning on heading back to work tomorrow despite the Dr.'s excuse.

Have been sleeping and coughing and sleeping and honestly not feeling much like stitching the last few days (see, I really AM ill; I told you I wasn't faking it!)..  There's not a lot of progress on PoF...

Here's a recent pic:

I've been playing around with using some fibres I rarely use.  Silk/wool, tapestry yarn (split into single ply... THAT'S interesting).

I think that using single ply wool singles is going to require incredibly short strands plus generous use of thread conditioner to hold it together until it's stitched in.

The sample I've done on 25 count linen over 1 (permin of cop. 100% linen) looks like mini needlepoint.  Quite pretty combined with silk threads.

I am almost (aaaaalmost) ashamed of the silks and flosses in my stash.  I know a fair bit of the specialty stash came from Lydia at Wyndham ages and ages ago in a huge grab bag.  (I'm so sad that they retired :(

Anyhow, I've mostly been able to shop my stash for floss for the PoF.  Didn't stop me buying the following from the 'bay, of course:


$15.52 from awaw.  I needed more silk.  Yes, I did.

 

 $21.50 incl. shipping: Size/length:83skeins,each skein is 22meters, 1826meters in all

Whassup.

Needed a blog to go with the fibre fever that has grabbed me lately.  I've always tended to go in cycles...  knit like a total fiend for months, then embroidery, then jewelry/metal/beading, then back to embroidery, then knitting, weaving, sewing, machine embroidery... rinse repeat.

I'm on a knitting and embroidery phase at the moment.

Just started Long Dog Sampler's Plight of Fancy with my own color substitutions.

Fabric is 25ct off white linen by Permin of Copenhagen.  I'm shopping my stash for flosses and fibres. 

 

Over the last few weeks, I've made some good progress with clearing out WIPs...  Here's one for a friend at work's pending baby.  Delivered 22 April, 2016 (the pullover, not the baby :))

Mariusgenser

Went together surprisingly quickly.  The body is knitted completely in the round, with steeks you reinforce and then (*GULP*) cut with scissors.  I grafted/kitchenered the shoulders and picked up and knitted the sleeves in one piece down to the cuffs.  It's a boat neck style and I wasn't 100% happy with how much the neck facing tends to roll out...but I was up against the wire on the finish, so I didn't do much about it, except block the heck out of it and hope for the best.

Wool is Lannett, by Sandnes.