amimono note

Converted

I knitted a scarf with my spindle-spun yarn last year. The plan was to attach fringes and felt the whole thing a bit, but I just couldn't bring myself to felt my handspun... and a year had passed, with my doing nothing with it.

Then I had an idea recently, and now the scarf is in the process of becoming a shrug. I have a vague idea of the construction of a shrug, though I've never knitted one. I'm knitting the collar/front body/bottom back body part (they are in one big round piece) right now, but I might have to rip it back and re-knit it since I have no idea how it's going to look like... The good thing is that the thought doesn't bother me much. Somehow when I'm experimenting with my own thing, I don't mind unravelling as much as I do when I'm knitting from a ready-made pattern.

Back of the shrug.

Head-less shot of me wearing it. I'll add the cuffs later, if there is enough yarn left.

By the way, I think I knit about an hour total in a day, and so far my wrists have been fine. I've been trying to knit no more than 15 minutes at a time, and not to knit the same project more than 30 minutes in a day. These rules makes my knitting progress slow, but it seems like it's working for the wrists.