tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-80241786890210713162024-03-08T12:01:28.476-05:00Fiber SaltThe Adventures of a Marine Science Student
and her obsession with yarnAnonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.comBlogger114125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-73190368066470723462017-02-12T13:59:00.001-05:002017-02-12T13:59:27.960-05:00Ivy<br />
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Ivy vines sprawl.
They cover the every visible surface they can. The vines in these gloves do the
same. The patterning panel reaches from the thumb, around the back of the hand,
to the palm, covering as much of the public side of the glove as possible. This
effect is more pronounced in the smaller glove sizes. <o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">While these are
written as wristies, these gloves can easily be lengthened in either direction
to cover as much of the arm and hand as there is yarn.</span></div>
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<i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">To fit palm circumference of 7[7.5, 8]
inches; shown in size L, with more than one repeat of the chart<o:p></o:p></span></i></div>
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<span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">110, [130, 150]
yards of fingering weight yarn<b><o:p></o:p></b></span></div>
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needles, for however you knit in the round, or size needed to get gauge<o:p></o:p></span></div>
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<b><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Gauge<o:p></o:p></span></b></div>
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<strong><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">Pattern
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<strong><i><span style="font-family: Georgia, serif; font-weight: normal;">This pattern uses </span></i></strong><a href="http://www.knitty.com/ksbbb.php#ksbbb"><i><span style="font-family: "Georgia",serif;">Knitty's List of Standard
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<span style="font-family: Georgia, serif;">The charts in this pattern do not play nicely with the blog coding, so please download the PDF of the pattern instead: <a href="http://www.ravelry.com/dls/sarah-v-miller-designs/381671?filename=Ivy_17.02.12.pdf">download now</a></span></div>
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Scalesia is a simple
lace, toe-up sock pattern featuring striped fagoting, spaced with rib for a
snug fit, and a short row heel. It was designed for the speckle-style colorways
commonly found among indie dyers, but subtle variegated, tonal, or solid
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350[400] yards of fingering-weight yarn, a sock blend (wool
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The total stitch count per sock is 64[76]sts. Foot
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<b>Cost: </b>$1.99<br />
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It's all over folks. Le Tour de Fleece 2014 is over. Let's look back at where we started, shall we?</div>
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From this we got 169.4yds of 3-ply sportish Wensleydale (508.2yds in singles):</div>
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195.4yds of 4-ply fingering Targhee (781.6yds in singles):</div>
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81.8yds of 2-ply lace BFL (163.6yds in singles):</div>
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And somewhere around 400yds in singles so far of Polwarth/Silk:</div>
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Which brings us to a total of 446.6yds of finished yarn, and around 1850yds of singles spun this tour. A good showing I say. And of course, the end of the Tour doesn't mean the end of spinning. This spinning will continue, as it always does. Hope you've enjoyed watching!</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.com0Decatur, GA, USA33.7748275 -84.29631230000001133.7220305 -84.376993300000009 33.8276245 -84.215631300000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-80192932244002329962014-07-27T12:09:00.002-04:002014-07-27T12:09:27.865-04:00TdF2014: Day 20<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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If it looks like nothing happened yesterday, you'd be close to right. I only go through an itty-bitty white section. Not much happened on the knitting front either, but lots of chores got done, so that's something. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.com0Decatur, GA, USA33.7748275 -84.29631230000001133.7220305 -84.376993300000009 33.8276245 -84.215631300000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-55498997634782460792014-07-26T08:52:00.001-04:002014-07-26T08:52:27.559-04:00TdF2014: Day 19<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Progress. Mainly because the slow pace of it all was annoying me (and killing my mojo, as projects that take longer than they usually do should), so decided to crank it up a bit yesterday.</div>
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Not that you could tell that easily. That's the problem with spinning this as fine as I am.</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.com0Decatur, GA, USA33.7748275 -84.29631230000001133.7220305 -84.376993300000009 33.8276245 -84.215631300000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-74710859657918811482014-07-25T08:56:00.002-04:002014-07-25T08:56:43.191-04:00TdF2014: Day 18<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Not much spinning yesterday (more focus on sweater seaming - I have a collar!), but it did happen:</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.com0Decatur, GA, USA33.7748275 -84.29631230000001133.7220305 -84.376993300000009 33.8276245 -84.215631300000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-91779017768725385782014-07-24T09:11:00.001-04:002014-07-24T09:11:56.354-04:00TdF2014: Day 17<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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And here we have the done Targhee: it's gorgeous, and going to be amazing knit up. I'm guessing it's going to look solid from far away, and the individual colors will pop out when you get closer. </div>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;"><a href="http://ravel.me/Bijou3owl/t3" target="_blank">Taiga</a><br />~195yds of heavy fingering, 4-ply<br />100% Targhee<br />Colorway: Wilderness (Mountain Colors)</td></tr>
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The Polwarth/Silk is getting there. Still focusing on sweater seaming more than this at the moment. Deadlines can be so irritating sometimes, but I don't think this sweater would get done without them. </div>
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So, when I started yesterday, I thought I had another day or two left on the Targhee. Not so:</div>
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Pretty skein pictures tomorrow. Which leaves the Polwarth/Silk as the last one standing:</div>
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Considering the Tour ends on Sunday, I feel like I've accomplished a ton. The Polwarth was thrown in there as a "Maybe I'll get to it, maybe not" project, so the fact that it's the only thing left at this point is astounding. If I didn't have a sweater and a birthday gift to finish before the end of the month, I would probably finish this before the end of the Tour. But alas, there is much deadline-knitting that needs doing. </div>
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Lots of spinning yesterday (I should have been seaming that sweater... oops). </div>
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And a finished skein of BFL:</div>
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A quarter of the singles are done on the Polwarth/Silk. It looks like there's no way it's all going to fit on this spindle, but the shaft length is the same as my maple suspended, which I know can fit all of this, so it'll work.</div>
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Some spinning yesterday, but more just a huge pile of seaming. So much seaming. Anyway, a little progress on the Targhee. I know, this plying is going to slowly, but it'll be done before the end of the Tour.</div>
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The BFL is done! It's still damp and drying, so pretty skein picture tomorrow. </div>
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And a bit of progress on the Polwarth/Silk. Hope to finish that first quarter of singles today. </div>
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Aye, aye, aye. Today has been rough. One of the post-docs in the department got an associate professor position in New York, so last night was the last hurrah farewell outing. I didn't get to sleep until 3am, and had been up since 6:30. Today it was a struggle to fulfill my prior obligations to other people (largely involving taking care of animals while people are on vacation), especially since things were timed to happen at six hour intervals. Putting it mildly I'm exhausted and sort of a zombie. Today was supposed to be the Tour challenge day, but I'm swapping it for a rest day. </div>
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Yesterday there was some plying:</div>
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And a lot of work on the polwarth/silk, largely at the aforementioned bar:</div>
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Lots of plying on the BFL - hope to finish that today:</div>
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Some more done on the singles for the Polwarth/Silk:</div>
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Remember how I mentioned a huge spinning project in the works? This is part of it:</div>
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That's samples for (L to R) Silk/BFL, Shetland, and Camel, all in a really fine, 2-ply lace, with huge amounts of halo. I've got 4oz of each - it's going to be a lot of spinning. </div>
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This morning, when I went out to the back porch to take pictures, it was... cold? I-wished-my-oversized-sweater-was-done cold? (Don't look at me like that - it was only a couple of ticks warmer than I keep my apartment in winter, really.) It felt like late September at least, even though it's mid-July. It's weird. </div>
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The BFL singles are done, and plying should commence today:<br />
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And I brought the Polwarth/Silk out of hibernation:<br />
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The pace has slowed down a bit, but that's because the Wensleydale was on a deadline, and the singles for the Targhee were a time/feasibility trial for my crazy spinning ambitions over the next four months. Also, I have deadlines for various knitted things coming up, which is taking away my spinning time. </div>
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Bonus: there's red among my tomatoes:<br />
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The Targhee is plying up in a really interesting way. It's alternating between a more obvious barber pole (seen here), and a more subtle color meld. I love it, but I only like barber poling in higher plies like this (it's usually just ugly in a 2-ply). </div>
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The Wensleydale is done - but still damp. Pretty skein shots will happen tomorrow. </div>
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The first single on the BFL went <i>really</i> quickly. I don't know if it's that suddenly the speedy part of long draw clicked, or that I did the Targhee and now this feels like such a small amount of fiber in comparison. </div>
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Halfway through the plying on the Wensleydale! That should get done today, and then tomorrow I move to plying the Targhee.</div>
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The BFL also saw action yesterday. I had yet another epiphany about woolen drafting - the combo of doing a lot of short draw to build up supported muscle memory and watching a <i>lot</i> of YouTube videos of various methods of long draw are what did it. Plus Abby Franquemont, in both book and blog. She's my spinning goddess. </div>
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Also, <b>bonus</b> sweater blocking:</div>
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Don't expect FO pictures in the next few days: just the sleeves are going to take 8-10 hours to sew up, because I'm anal like that. </div>
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Done with singles! I did not think I was capable of finishing 4oz of singles in less than two weeks, but that's the Tour for you...</div>
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The Targhee is getting plied on the top whorl rather than the russian, which will give me a tighter ply. Though I'm planning on doing the Wensleydale first, so you need to wait a bit to see how this turns out (though I'm excited - it's going to be gorgeous). </div>
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Almost done with the singles for the first round of spinning! Should finish the singles on both the Wensleydale and the Targhee today. </div>
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Whoo! Only two more color sections to go on the Wensleydale (which means I'm 75% done with the singles shhhhhhhh.... (two more sections sounds like so much less to do)).</div>
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Didn't get through as much as I wanted on the last Targhee single (about 1/6 instead of 1/3), but it was bedtime. My body wasn't letting me stay up later to finish. </div>
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And got more than 2/3 of the way through the third single on the Targhee (more than I had planned):</div>
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I also now have perspective on this amount of daily spinning vs what I was doing last month, because this is the first day I've been doing it on a workday. And it is quite a bit. Major focus/time management needed to get it all done. Which is good to know, since this was a sort of time trial for me anyway. </div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.com0Decatur, GA, USA33.7748275 -84.29631230000001133.7220305 -84.376993300000009 33.8276245 -84.215631300000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-75164283642417928352014-07-06T11:35:00.001-04:002014-07-06T11:35:12.644-04:00TdF2014: Day 1<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Got through the next orange bit on the Wensleydale:</div>
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And finished the second single of the Targhee, plus braided up the rest:</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.com0Decatur, GA, USA33.7748275 -84.29631230000001133.7220305 -84.376993300000009 33.8276245 -84.215631300000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-22161047165053869342014-07-05T14:38:00.000-04:002014-07-06T11:35:36.525-04:00Tour de Fleece 2014<div class="MsoNormal" style="text-align: justify;">
Thoughts about reviving the blog have been bouncing around
my head for a while, but what better to actually get my butt in gear but an
event that I’ll be taking daily pictures of and posting anyway? That’s right,
I’m talking about the Tour de Fleece! <o:p></o:p></div>
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The Tour de Fleece (TdF) coincides with Le Tour de France
(bet you didn't see that coming). In short, spinners spin yarn for every day of
the Tour that the cyclists ride. Spinning and spinning. That’s all there is to
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I sort of participated three years ago (ie I did it for two
days and then forgot about it), but this time around, I’m all in. Since the
goal of the TdF is just to spin every day, I’ll be going with a bunch of WIPs
(works in progress). Therefore, today's post is the tare post:<o:p></o:p></div>
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From left to right, top row then bottom row, we have:<o:p></o:p></div>
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2oz of 100% Wensleydale; colorway: No Pulse (Nerd Girl Yarns
Fiber of the Month Club March 2014)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2oz of 100% Targhee; colorway: Wilderness (Mountain Colors)<o:p></o:p></div>
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~0.4oz of 100% BFL (Jen gave this to me for Christmas in… 2012?
Yeah, Christmas 2012)<o:p></o:p></div>
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2oz of 85%/15% Polwarth/Silk; colorway: Spirit of the Hero
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From here on out it’s mainly going to be pictures. A summary
collage every day mirroring that first one, and then the things I actually
worked on get their own pictures (the picture in the collage blown up). I’ll
probably give details on the drafting method, spindle, ply structure, etc. when
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Oh, and I also finished <a href="http://ravel.me/Bijou3owl/e2" target="_blank">this</a> on Thursday:</div>
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437.3yds of 3-ply heaving fingering, chain-plied</div>
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85/15 SW BFL/Nylon, Colorway: I Am Divergent (Nerd Girl Yarns Fiber of the Month Club February 2014)</div>
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<br />Anonymoushttp://www.blogger.com/profile/18071446728062158079noreply@blogger.com0Decatur, GA, USA33.7748275 -84.29631230000001133.7220305 -84.376993300000009 33.8276245 -84.215631300000013tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-8024178689021071316.post-39698486097453989502013-08-06T10:33:00.001-04:002013-08-06T17:25:49.770-04:00IDP<div style="margin: 0px auto 10px; text-align: center;">
Part of the beauty of the Knit Picks IDP program is that it functions solely as an outlet for designers. There are no exclusivity contracts, fees, and, <em>most importantly</em>, no oaths of secrecy. I am free to display patterns-in-progress as much as I please.<br />
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Now, I've had a couple designs in the back of my head for a few years. This is not one of them:<br />
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This one popped into my head one day about a month and a half ago, when I realized just how poor I'm going to be as a grad student (more on that later), and needed to supplement my income. Luckily, it was a slow day at work, so I spent an hour sketching out designs and looking up stitch patterns. This was followed by obsessive swatch-knitting, and the whole idea-to-proposal process was done in record time.<br />
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Knit Picks loved it, sent me the requested yarn, and I got to work. This is where the process slowed. I thought, "I'll bang out this knee sock in two weeks!". Well, life happened, and a month later there is still no sock. I'm close to done - I'm in the perpetual plateau where all long projects end up. When the day started, I was a half inch away from the ribbing. I knit for two hours. I'm still a half inch away from the ribbing. Alas, there is nothing I can do but keep knitting, until suddenly the thing is two inches too long and I have to rip back. Any knitter can attest that this is how these things work. <br />
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<em>P.S. For anyone who reads this blog that isn't a family member or a close friend (in which case you already know this), I'm moving to Atlanta, GA to start grad school in two weeks. I'm doing a MS/PhD combo in neuroscience, working Chuck Derby's lab at GSU. I'll be studying cephalopod chemical defenses and their effects on the neurosensory systems of associated predators. The email I got today also suggests that I'll be working with the olfactory systems of various crustaceans as well.<br />
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P.P.S. Hopefully, I'll get (and keep) this blog up and running again. It's one of those things that I don't realize how much I enjoy doing it until I do it again after a long dry spell. Plus I actually have ~things~ going on in my life of general interest, which is an excellent literary motivator. </em></div>
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