I have made a tiny bit of progress on the second sock but only so I would have something to take a .photo of - not feeling inspired by socks this week.
I finished the Diane Chamberlain novel, The Shadow Wife, I enjoyed it but not enough to rave about it. So now I need to decide what to read next. Here are some of the books I could choose from but I dare not start anything until I have prepared the next chapter of the Philosophy of Freedom for study group. I think it is going to take a lot of concentration to get through it and I'm not sure where I'm going to find the mental energy to do that.
I have brought these three small skeins out to try to think of a project that they would suit. I would love to use them together on something but they are very different fibres and weights.
The plain dark skein is yak, the silvery grey is silk/cashmere and the last skein is yak plied spiral plied with gold metallic thread. Any ideas for small projects where they could work together would be greatly appreciated - inspiration needed!
I also have this on the needles which is just a sample square to see how my highly textured silk plied with beaded metallic thread knits up. It's early days yet but I think I am going to like it.
To see what others are up to check out Ginny's Yarn Along and Frontier Dreams' Craft Along.
I finished the Diane Chamberlain novel, The Shadow Wife, I enjoyed it but not enough to rave about it. So now I need to decide what to read next. Here are some of the books I could choose from but I dare not start anything until I have prepared the next chapter of the Philosophy of Freedom for study group. I think it is going to take a lot of concentration to get through it and I'm not sure where I'm going to find the mental energy to do that.
I have brought these three small skeins out to try to think of a project that they would suit. I would love to use them together on something but they are very different fibres and weights.
The plain dark skein is yak, the silvery grey is silk/cashmere and the last skein is yak plied spiral plied with gold metallic thread. Any ideas for small projects where they could work together would be greatly appreciated - inspiration needed!
I also have this on the needles which is just a sample square to see how my highly textured silk plied with beaded metallic thread knits up. It's early days yet but I think I am going to like it.
To see what others are up to check out Ginny's Yarn Along and Frontier Dreams' Craft Along.
If the metallic isn't scratchy I would make some sort of cowl. Those yarns sound like they would be real soft around your neck. And the neutral colors go with anything.
ReplyDeleteI think a cowl would be good but I am not aware of any patterns using such different yarn weights, I think maybe I'll just have to experiment a bit.
DeleteI love those colors!
ReplyDeleteThanks Beth.
DeleteOh what are you thinking for the textured yarn? It looks gorgeous.
ReplyDeleteNo idea really Lucy, just having a go to see what it is like knitted up. I like the look of it though, quite exciting!
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