Tuesday Morning Out and About

...which was more productive than I'd hoped!

    Got a decent bit of my knitting strip done, and I'm pretty excited with how the color change worked out. It's basically everything I hoped it would be, and now I have several ideas in my head of how to take advantage of this property in the future. Not sure which idea will win, but I imagine some fun swatching is in my future!

    The spindle finally has enough fiber on it that the whorl was slowing it down, so I've removed it and continue to spin with just the copp as a flywheel. You'd think that doesn't work, but all a smaller spindle like this needs is 10 or so grams of fiber and it becomes it's own whorl. That's why I like to use removable whorls like that. In addition to making it easier to continue to spin fine like this, it also provides me with a little more room to build the copp, so I can fit more on for more than one reason.

    

    Not easy to see what's going on, so I added arrows. If I didn't know which was which, I'm not positive I'd be able to see the difference, tbh, but in person, where you can manipulate it, it's visible because as the fabric bends that part puckers up and you can see the batting underneath.

    Again, hard to photograph, but noticable in real life. I'm getting more than one block done on average, so I think it will take less than a month to finish. Then again, there's repairs needed on the backing too, and it's a bit more extensive, so perhaps I won't actually save as much time as I think.

    It looks slightly less bruise-y in real life, my camera wants to make all the colors warmer than they really are, but I hope you can see now why I decided to leave it as is. There's some unexpected pops of bright blue and green that I think will look pretty against the largely greyish background. I forgot to get the other fiber soaking until this evening, so probably I'll be dyeing the other tomorrow and be one step closer to spinning it up!