{"id":880,"date":"2012-08-01T19:23:32","date_gmt":"2012-08-02T02:23:32","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=880"},"modified":"2012-09-10T11:04:34","modified_gmt":"2012-09-10T18:04:34","slug":"finish-line-to-starting-line","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/zardra.dimmet.net\/?p=880","title":{"rendered":"Finish Line to Starting Line"},"content":{"rendered":"

I finished my spinning for the Tour de Fleece with a little time to spare. \u00a0I didn’t want to go too crazy with the spinning since I’m participating in what one of my online knitting groups (Friends of Abby’s Yarns) is calling the Masochism Tango where whatever you spun during the Tour de Fleece gets knit into something during the Ravelympics<\/del> Ravellenic Games. \u00a0Since one of the things I spun was a skein of laceweight singles with a total of 864 yards, I knew I’d have my work cut out for me in the knitting department.\"\"<\/a><\/p>\n

So, the final totals at my Tour de Fleece finish line are
\n1. (Top) Spunky Eclectic Fiber Club – August 2011 – Falkland – Change, 3-ply, sport weight, 234 yards
\n2. (Bottom) Spunky Eclectic Fiber Club – December 2012 – Superwash Corriedale – David’s Gift, singles, laceweight, 864 yards<\/p>\n

Plans are still the same for the knitting up as I posted at the beginning of the Tour de Fleece: the 3-ply Falkland will become the Autumn Vines Beret, and the laceweight SW Corriedale will become a Citron shawl.<\/p>\n

I cast on the beret Friday evening. \u00a0If I had been thinking ahead I would have had the yarn balled up and ready to go to cast on while riding the bus home from work that afternoon. \u00a0But I was totally unprepared for the start of the Ravellenic Games. \u00a0The yarn was balled up, the pattern pulled out, and a quickie gauge swatch knit up after dinner while watching the woefully time-delayed opening ceremony (probably the only thing except for the closing ceremony that I’ll actually watch during the whole thing, I think). \u00a0I am ready and willing to except that my gauge swatch might have been lying to me as I only knit about an inch or so before measuring and deeming the chosen needles good to go. \u00a0But the fabric I’m getting looks good, and the hat itself does not look overly small or large.<\/p>\n

I’m hoping to have the beret done and the shawl cast on by Monday of next week, the sooner the better obviously. \u00a0I’m expecting that the shawl will go quickly since it doesn’t have the same amount of patterning as the hat; the hope is that I will be able to mostly memorize the shawl pattern and go at it like a speed demon rather than having to check the pattern every few minutes like I do with all the cables on the hat.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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