Plied Cormo
To those of you who can't believe that I could incur a spinning injury, well, you have to understand that under most circumstances I am the most accident prone person around. In college I had a friend who nicknamed me the "spillmaster" for my incredible ability to upset full glasses of brightly colored liquid. In high school, I was walking down a hallway once while talking and walked face first into a metal support pole. Graceful and catlike I am not. If there is a way for me to injure myself doing something simple and innocuous, I will find a way to do it.
Fortunately, like most accident-prone people, I am fairly resiliant and after around-the-clock Advil therapy I was able to get down to the important business of getting my singles plied. I'm now about a 1/3 of the way through my 4 ounces of red cormo/silk. And it gave me a good lesson in what hand-dyed means. Notice that the skein on the top is just slightly more orange than the skein in the middle (the newest addition). Yuppers, this stuff might have come out of the same bag, but there was a lot more red in the second batch. Even so, I still think they are both quite lovely and I'm already looking through my pattern books to find a small lace pattern that might work well. More and more this yarn is telling me that it would like to be a small neck scarf or shawl-ette.
The blue/green cormo has actually received favorable reviews from the man of the house. So who knows. If I can find the right item, it might end up as some manly item... assuming that any manly item can be made out of fingering weight yarn...
Ah, I am familiar with titles like Spillmaster. I was Grace Mach 2 (because one of my friends was Grace Mach 1). We could trip over air. My clincher was breaking my knee when I slipped on a wet floor. I lament that it wasn't something more glorious like a skiing accident.
Sure. Socks. But you'd need more. And although Cormo wouldn't be the most durable of wool fibers, they could be inside-the-house slipper socks.
If you don't want to make socks, you could double the fingering yarn...
I will be waiting to see what manly thing you come up with..I need to find somethin for my hubby!!
So there on the clumsy thing. You know the whole "most likely to succeed" voting in High School? Me - clumsiest. And, I did the walking into a post as well, but mine was a parking meter...
If the man of the house gets cold fingers playing video games during the winter, I'd vote for some fingerless mitts. The Flame loves his, and I love the fact that he doesn't come to bed with finger-sicles.
I don't know how much of blue/green cormo you've got (hopefully more than one skein!) but how about a scarf with cables? Or not. It all looks lovely. Too bad we can't touch it through the computer!
you sound a lot like me in the accident department. your spinning is simply stunning. did you do all that on your drop spindle?