I’ve been steadily chugging away at knitting and a little spinning since I last updated. For a while there it felt like I wasn’t getting anything significant done, but this last week or so I have made quite a lot of progress.
A quick overview of Stash Dash FOs!
In knitting I finished another pair of gloves for a friend, my amazing rainbow sparkle socks, and Acai hat and my Willard pullover.
In spinning I finished my Autumn Fibre Club from Kathy’s Fibres, and the sparkle merino/silk that I brought for my birthday!
I’m so pleased with the Autumn Club spin, I love the colours and they’ve turned out beautifully in the finished object I knit with it (more below!). I’m overall quite happy with the sparkle one – the meterage was quite poor for a fingering weight, but it’s my first spin on my new wheel!
I went ahead and brought the hand crafted double treadle upright I was looking into and it’s gorgeous! There has been a bit of a learning curve with it, and I’m still trying to find the most comfortable way to use it. But I am hopeful that with time I will really love it.
In much newer FOs I also finished my Daybreak shawl this week, after losing at yarn chicken for both the striped section and the bind off. Fortunately I decided that I could live with one less stripe, and I had a second skein of the gold yarn to finish the bind off with.
My other super quick FO was the Calzone shawl, I started it on Saturday evening and finished it yesterday! I would have probably finished it on the weekend if I hadn’t spent most of Sunday working on my Daybreak instead. I’m so pleased with how it turned out and it is such a a fun and quick knit. I strongly recommend it to anyone who wants a quick and pretty knit when they only have a small amount of yarn (mine used just under 300meters of a fingering/sport weight)
And after years of coveting and waiting and dreaming, I have finally brought home my library card catalogue cabinet.
My boss, who is both wonderful and amazing, promised me this cabinet several years ago. We finally got around to moving our active shelf-list cards from the old cabinet, to the bigger and nicer heritage listed cabinet, freeing this one up to come home with me. I’m so happy to be able to have one of these magnificent cabinets, especially one that I have a personal connection to due to;
a) it’s played a big part in the history of the library I work in; and
b) I have been using this cabinet daily in my work in Special Collections for the last 4 years.
That this cabinet now has a home here with me is a wonderful feeling. In a way it’s as much a part of my history, as it is part of my workplace and libraries in general.
Crafting Out Of Context 