Twisp of Fate

I finished the top-down raglan for Rick yesterday.  Here it is washed and drying on the wooly board:

As mentioned in a previous post, this was knit from my own handspun – a 3-ply yarn where each ply was a different natural color from a multi-colored Coopworth cross fleece.  I used Karen Alfke’s “Unpattern for the top-down sweater“, an old favorite.

This is just a simple thing, but I enjoyed knitting it, it went quickly, I didn’t run out of yarn (in fact I have a fair amount left – always so important), and Rick really likes it.  He will be wearing it tomorrow.  I think this one will be around for a long time and meet the classic description:  just like an old favorite sweater.

I have also wound off two 6-yard warps, enough for 4 more shawls, and got one of them on the loom last night:

These are handpainted yarns from New Zealand, and this colorway is called “Arctic.”  She must have been thinking of the aurora borealis?