Nerd Wars in ON!!!
Friday, February 11, 2011 at 9:05AM Feb. 1 saw the kick-off of Nerd Wars on Ravelry, and as you all know by now, I'm on Team Browncoat, fans of the show Firefly.
Part of the fun is an optional 3-month long dissertation project, and I decided to jump in. I'm knitting the Pinwheel Sweater from Elann.com.
I'm using Noro's Cash Iroha, yum!!! I won over 2 pounds of it at a charity event quite a few years ago. Because Noro donated the yarn for the event, it was in giant hanks of mill ends, and all different colors.
The colors are beautiful (a bright purple isn't shown), but a little bright for me, and I didn't really like the flow. So I worked at over-dyeing them with a dark brown and here are my results:
I'm pleased as punch!!
I've cast-on and am making good progress, but shop, home and continued recovery are slowing me down just a bit.
And I did manage to get a skein of yarn spun. Here's the original batt:
And the finished yarn (it's going in the shop!)
It's Fiber Arts Friday over at Wonder Why Alpaca, so go check out all the other fun there!!
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Reader Comments (7)
I love that pattern, I'll be looking for more updates and pictures!
Your sweater is going to be beautiful. I'm looking forward to seeing its progress. Super nice yarn too. Happy Fiber Arts Friday!
Looking forward to the finished project!
I absolutely LOVE the overdyed colored! I can't wait to see how your knitting progresses. It's quite a big task you are taking on (says the girl who is ready to put her first sweater in time out again) but it will be breathtaking when completed.
Happy Fiber Arts Friday!
That is a really cool sweater pattern! Love that. Glad you shared that and all your fiber arts endeavors.
Happy Fiber Arts Friday!
Love the overdyeing I never would have thought of that, Good luck with the sweater-can't wait to see it finished.
That is an Awesome Sweater!!!
and overdying anything you don't love the color of is sooo much fun!!!