But finally! Lo! and behold! I have Spun All The Yarn!
Seven skeins of... varying length. The shortest is 172 yards and the longest 246, with most of them averaging 200-220 yards. Well. Here's a screen shot of my Ravelry handspun project page (new to Rav: handspun as a project! and fiber as a stash option! I think it's still in beta but I've been using it since Tour de Fleece and it is quite lovely!)
As you can see I have named all the skeins for my dear Rav friends or their Merry Beasts (I thought Foxy and Ember would like their own skeins even better than their Persons would) and if I run out of yarn and have to do one more, another dormmate will get her own skein.
The grand total if I did my Mathings right is 1,520 yards, which was enough to declare I'd reached All The Yarn for NEWT 50% points purposes.
I then proceeded to cast on... with the wrong size needles, bless me. I knit 4 rows with size US 4 needles before realizing my mistake and switching to the 2s. I'm just *not* ripping this stuff back. It's very clingy and I'm afraid it wouldn't do well coming out.
what I have is currently right around 45" long (perfect: it's supposed to be 44.5" and it will tighten with washing if my swatch is any indication), 314 stitches, takes about 20 minutes to do a row. I'm just adoring the Broken Rib stitch at the beginning and end of the rows. I shall hereby admit that I'm afraid this yarn has too much halo to do DovieJay's stitch definition justice. But we shall see... and if nothing else, this will be the warmest sweater I've ever owned. And since it'll be one more winter without heat in my office (they'll be putting in a new furnace next summer while the preschool is on hiatus, but this winter we'll be keeping the space heater running!) I'll be glad to have this finished.
There's not much to see, really, but let's give the iPad camera a try, shall we?
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