So, I have still been doing a lot of spinning. As we head through July into August, Wisconsin inevitably gets humid with more regularity. When I started spinning, I just kind of draped the roving over my arm and/or shoulder. However, when the humidity went up last year and the roving started sticking to me, I basically put the spinning away until winter. This spring, I started carrying the roving in a plastic grocery bag. I could loop the handles over my arm while I was spinning and just pull out more length as I needed it. Enter this year's increased humidity and one seriously sweaty forearm and/or elbow. So I scratched my head a little. Then I looked at my ball of viscose handspun a bit. I didn't have a project in mind for it, so I scratched my head a little more and cast on for this:
Here's what it looks like all stretched out:
Specifications
Pattern: Made it up as I went
Yarn: Viscose handspun
Needles: KnitPicks Options, size 8
The basic recipe:
Cast on enough stitches to make arm band a nice width (this one has 21)
Knit a few rows (I did 7).
Cast off 3-5 center stitches. Next row cast those stitches back on (leaving a slit between rows).
Knit until it's about wrist sized.
Next two rows: cast off edge stitches to leave a few stitches in the center (this one has 5)
Knit I-cord until it's long enough to fit a slip knot and a big bunch of roving.
The arm band could be anything from garter stitch all the way to as fancy as possible. I did a seed stitch border with a cable down the center:
More posts coming soon...In addition to our typical out and about summer schedule, I have also been doing more work getting the apartment ready to start moving, so blogging time gets preempted. I suspect that until we get quasi-settle in the new apartment, the blogging will look like this: long silence, then several posts in a day or two. I am planning on breaking things up into several short(ish) posts all at once rather than trying to cover everything in one monster post, so I don't wind up with a series of novellas with every label I have ever used attached to each.
24 July 2008
FO: Arm Distaff Thingy
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4 comments:
Very inventive...your engineering ability, coupled with your inherent creativity, comes through again! Tee, hee...I'm seeing the "scratching-your-head" image, which presents the usual cartoon picture and the subsequent light-bulb-going-on illustration. Way to go!
Ooh, thank you for posting your un-pattern! That is a seriously brilliant idea, and I'm just trying to figure out what yarn to use before I cast one on for myself.
What a clever Kittymommy! Thanks for the recipe!... I think I've got some cotton wanting to be one.
Very Clever! Much better to be "wearing" viscose than wool this time of year.
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