A Little More
Schaefer Anne.
The colours in this first fair pattern a little differently in the two socks. This pair is actually from two different skeins that
'looked the same'. Nothing like knitting up to see how much the same they really are(
n't)!
I like how these colours do their thing. And I also happen to like the colours...a very rich wine red and deep blue.
Mmmm.
Both pairs above are sized Medium, knit with the 54 needle cylinder on the
Legare 400.
A Little More Yarn Therapy
I'm not sure which is more uplifting.
Koigu by the bag, or
by the kilo.
No question the neatly twisted 50 g skeins are as good an eye candy as a knitter could find. But I wanted to see if winding a one kilo sized skein would take less time than winding twenty 50 g skeins.
This is a big deal for me, as I spend almost as much time winding yarn as I do knitting, and I'd like to do less of the former and more of the latter!
The answer...it took WAY less time to wind a kilo(about 2/3 less). Much of the winding time goes to untwisting and mounting the skein on the swift, snipping off the ties, and finding the leading end of the yarn.
Obviously, my wee-cheap-
chinese-metal-and-plastic umbrella swift was
a little completely overloaded with this size of skein, and my ball winder can only wind about 3/4 lb, but it looks to me like a modest upgrade of winding equipment and jumbo skeins good be, as Martha would say, a good thing.
(Getting
handpainted yarn on 3 kg
pre-wound cones would be an
even gooder thing!)
1 comment:
Lovely, lovely work. Eye candy, for sure. I think you are ready for a new yarn swift, though! Knit Picks has a nice Italian-made one for $50US - our CDN$ is cooperating a bit more these days, so maybe it is time to make that purchase. Looks like you deserve it!
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