My First Blog Post....ever....Moebiously!

well...i must first give props to jen...without her there would be no blog. also, without her inspiration i would not be currently still up at 6:23am unable to settle down from the excitement of beginning knitting my first moebius strip...yay!!! it has blown my mind and i feel as if i have gone down the rabbit hole of the knitting universe

jen, gotta love her, did it the proper way with the provisional cast on and all, but me, not wanting to feel too out of control, went searching for another way and found this:
http://www.planetshoup.com/easy/knit/scarfmb.shtml
instead of the provisional cast on she just picks up and knits into the loops below the cast on stitches, and then once you do that you can join the two ends and voila! you are ready to rock! here's a pic after a few rows...



i did opt for a k2p2 ribbing (instead of the garter stitch in the pattern) which looks really nice in the handspun merino and tencel i'm knitting it in...because i picked up stitches the beginning is not invisible like it would be with the provisional cast on, but the handspun is so fiesty that i don't really think it matters, but it makes more sense why she used garter stitch because it would hide the join quite nicely.....here's a pic of my virgin ball before we entered the rabbit hole together...


oh, and i used the crystal palace daisy circulars for the first time and after i gave the cord a 'what for' in some boiling water i was quite pleased with them and i really love how smooth and light they are to knit with

today has been a wonderful fiber day all around...i finally finished turning my beautiful alpaca roving into luscious yarn and i think i may just moebius that too! the heathery color is freckles and the dark brown is catarine...that's the name of the alpacas that produce such gorgeous colors...i got this roving about a year and a half ago at stitches and am so excited to have finally gotten brave enough to spin it...the shiny white is bits of raw silk fiber (thank you, lauren) thrown in there, yummy!


There's also one more picture i'll put up tonight...ok, this morning...this is yarn i've been conjuring in my head for a couple weeks and i love it as much as i thought i would! it's so soft and the colors have a beautiful contrast together that i just love...there's about 50yds here, perfect for a small and fiesty project...we'll see...


well, i'm pooped and i think it's time for bath and bed...gotta get some rest so i can moebius some more on sunday...