I’ve been meaning to post for a week or so, but unexpected bad news had me down for quite awhile.
Springwater Fiber Workshop, in Alexandria, is closing, unless they can gather enough in pledges to stay open. This breaks my heart, as it’s an organization that’s grown important to me over my short acquaintance with them. I learned to spin there, and I’ve been working on my agoraphobia, going to some of the knitting and spinning group meetings there. I really hope they manage to find a way to stay around.
In actual Tina-knitting activity, there are two projects that have been finished for a great deal of time that need blogged, and one I just finished. First, my favorite:
The Imperial knit hat for TD-0013. This was a fun project, and I got some practice in knitting in the English fashion – I’m usually a continental knitter. I wasn’t completely happy with the finished product, however. It’s too tall, and I’m thinking of reknitting it in a fingering weight on smaller needles. It would change the charts, but I could compensate for that, and I think it would look better overall.
I also wish I had a better photo, but I mailed this out in October (yeah, I’m a bad blogger), so all I have is a blocking shot. I need to work out a better way to block hats, but I so rarely knit them. I seem to be a sock girl, through and through.
Next we have a pair of socks I finished last month, the Summer of Love 
Lace socks from Blue Moon Fiber Art’s Rockin’ Sock club. I accidentally “modified” the first sock and left out the inch of plain stockinette after the ribbing, so I matched it on the second sock, so I didn’t have to rip out the first sock.
Incidentally enough, the third (and just finished) project is the April sock from the club, Knee High to a Grasshopper.
This was not my favorite knitting. I will admit it now. It was at times tedious and frustrating, and only stubbornness got me through the first sock. After that…well, one sock isn’t very useful, so more stubbornness got me through the second. I’m not a fan of toe-up socks, and learned with this one that I’m also not a fan of socks knitted on two circulars. But trying new things is why I joined the club in the first place, so I have another pair of socks that I wouldn’t normally have chosen to knit. I can’t love them all.
So…now I can start on the October sock. I’m actually…*gasp*…more or less caught up with the club. I know, we’re all amazed.