Project Spectrum

The color for August for Project Spectrum is pink and suddenly I’m seeing pink everywhere! I’ve got pink toes. You…

It’s Project Spectrum time again, thanks to Lolly, and the color for the month of May is red. I may…

When we visited Hillary and her family last February we had a wonderful dinner prepared be Hillary.  The star of…

With all the spinning wheels I have around here, you probably think I have all kinds of spinning projects going on. The truth of the matter is, I don’t really like to be spinning more than one pile ‘o fiber at a time. It’s sort of like knitting projects – if you have too many…

As I’ve done for the past few months, I have used the Project Spectrum color guideline to help me choose sock yarn and spinning fibers. This month, I knit socks for Lois with yarn from Brooklyn Handspun. Lois, who will knit fiddly baby dolls and Aran sweaters and other things that are beyond my scope,…

I love how Project Spectrum gives me guidelines and deadlines for my sock knitting and fiber spinning! In fact, the looming arrival of May 1st pushed me to finish the Cheez Whiz socks. They are for me and I love them! What do you think? I have also been pushing to finish spinning the Lorna’s…

Allow me to present a Project Spectrum: April post. Lots of pictures, very few words. Because, frankly, the pictures speak for themselves! Jessica’s socks. Modeled by Jessica. How convenient that the yellow and orange daffodils are in bloom right now! A close up. These are right back my back door and I just love having…

I finished my red cable socks! The yarn is Fleece Artist Merino from Red Bird Knits. The pattern is from the book Knit Socks. It’s one of those board books and it’s shaped like a sock. I had knit this pattern for Dale a while back with some worsted weight yarn and was pleased to…

As I’m sure we’re all aware, yesterday was the start of Lolly’s Project Spectrum. When Lolly announced this idea, I decided I would use each month’s color scheme to define my sock knitting for the month. See, um, I sort of have a lot of sock yarn. In a lot of colors. And sometimes I…