What I made, by Sharon

For our trip to Scotland I was looking for a fairly massive project. Something simple, but not boring. Something that will take me a full month. I stumbled across the What The Fade (WTF!) shawl, which uses 6 colours of 4 ply, and thought that might do the trick. The only problem is I want to knit it from stash, and it's meant to be a fade. So I've picked out some colours, and I'm going to dye some colours, with speckles. I'm also plying up some laceweight into a light fingering. When I sat down at my wheel, it was awful. I couldn't get into a flow, and I felt like my spinning stool kept sliding backwards on our polished wood floors. Then I gave the bearing on the back a service and it's magic! I no longer feel like I'm fighting the wheel all the time, and I have the first lot all plied up: I'm going to dye this grey, and this bright green with splotches of light blue, dark blue and pink, to try to get a decent fade from this lot: If it ends up...

You'll be seeing a fair number of baby jumpers on the blog in the next few months - five people at my work are pregnant. One of the baby jumpers I wanted to knit is the Snug , but I didn't have any suitable twelve ply yarn. I did have the lovely dark grey four ply that I made my Laika out of. Before  I ran three strands of it through the wheel, and I'm really happy with the result. After I really haven't done any spinning for the last six months. I don't think this has returned my spinning mojo, but it is nice to know I can utilise this skill in a useful way , and I've found myself tootling away on the spindle a couple of times since I finished this, so who knows, maybe the love will return. Do you have a "go to" baby pattern you like to use? If so, let me know in the comments, because I've got two  more to go, and that's after I actually knit Snug.