Icelandic Brown

Another Estes Park purchase spun up.  It was purchased in June of 2012 and has since been hanging out in my stash along with other fiber for spinning and yarn.

 This is the soft part of an Icelandic fleece and comes from Fire Mountain Fiber.  Being the soft part rather than the hairy part of the fleece means it has short fibers.  Something, I didn't know.  When I first started it, I was having trouble with it coming apart.  Checking on Ravelry, one other person had worked with and mentioned that they might try having a lot of overspin in it.  That is what I did and I ended up with overspin sticking out on the singles using a 12:1 ratio.

 I then did a three ply and it was easy to balance the singles using a 8.5:1 single.  It was a bit slower for plying because the doubled overspin had to be pulled apart on the singles.

 The three skeins of three ply are bulky and contain, 116, 74, and 88 yards of yarn.  The small dab of two ply is worsted weight and has twenty yards.  The two ply will probably at some point go in a multicolor item.

The three ply is most likely going to become a scarf.  It is a bit scratchier than what I normally do as a scarf so I don't think it can be a cowl.

Sock It Too 2016

I don't take many pictures of the socks I knit.  One, reason is that the ones for my husband are based on the same pattern,  Gentleman's Plain Winter Sock with Dutch Heel.

There was only one pair completed this year.  As you can see it is a basic pattern.  I do less ribbing for the cuff and more stockinette for the leg.  If you are wondering one skein of about 420 yards does a pair.

In review, it has been a slow year for socks.  Only two other pairs were finished.

 Above is the start to a pair of Moody's stockings which were completed in April.  The pattern doesn't show much until they are on.

And here are the Horcrux Socks made with the Opal Draco color way.  It seems fitting to walk on Malfroy Draco.   I didn't increase the leg length.  

Somehow, it seems fitting that I knit some socks based on Harry Potter this year.