Finished (another hat of sorts)

This involved spinning the yarn, learning a lot, and knitting in fingering weight rather than worsted or bulky yarns for a change though!

The pattern is North Star Tam from Arctic Lace by Donna Druchunas:

It took a little more than 3 ounces, spun semi-worsted, 2 ply, 14 wpi, 5.5 tpi.  There's another almost 4 ounces I spun, but the second batch I spun woolen, very softly, and it's so prone to drifting apart that it's impossible to ply, so it's destined to stay a singles yarn (very similar to Schoolhouse Press's Unspun Icelandic Lace Weight yarn).  I have around 650 yards of it I think, so I hope to use it to make a feather-and-fan Faroese-shaped shawl once I finally get the other 2 shawls I have on the needles finished.

End of the weekend

We had beautiful weather here so Jeffrey, Sachy, and Gilad got the whole front yard raked.  Oma took the girls shopping, and also lent the kids the new copy of Kung-Fu Panda she just bought on DVD for all the grandkids to share at Thanksgiving.

Meanwhile, Addie spent the day being cranky thanks to teething, Kayla was kind of sick-ish until tonight, when she's more sick-ish, and Feivel spent most of the day being contrary and bored at the same time (multi-tasking!).

Me?  Well....

Unfortunately, this evening Mom and I tried heading out to the theater and the play we saw was so bad we left at the intermission.  We would have left at the end of the first scene if we could have done so gracefully.  Oh well, at least I wasn't out too late, but I wish I could wipe my brain clean from the miserable almost-an-hour we did sit through.

One more hat. It's a sad addiction.

From my hand spun again, this time a fine merino/sari silk/firestar blend from Butterfly Girl Designs: