Blogroll Updates

Lately I've been going through my blogroll, setting those that haven't been updated in over 2 months to invisible and adding new blogs. How do I find these new blogs? By checking out blogs listed on other bloggers' rolls. I'm particularly attracted to those that have traditional knitting, such as Fair Isles, arans, and Norwegian knitting. Those that are entering my blogrolls are:

Now that Mother is online, I would like to point her toward quilting blogs. Know of any good ones that she can check out?

For a while I've been sort of at a loss of word because knitting goes slowly for me at times. So I need to talk about matters other than knitting. But there are stuff that I'm not really going to put out in the public (you know, if you don't want everyone to know, don't put it out on the net, that sort of thing). And there are things I see commented on in other blogs that raise my blood pressure because I don't quite agree with the particular viewpoint. I would hate for other people to feel the same way when they come here. So, I would like to know if you would mind it or not, even if you don't agree with me.

While going through new blogs, I came across the pattern for Broad Street Mittens from knitty. This is just the pattern I need to make myself a pair of mittens, although I think I may just leave out the half-finger part and just knit it as one tube up to just before the finger joints. I find it irritating to have the glove thickness between my fingers, since I have small hands. I also sign quite a bit, and find that these finger part just gets in my way, especially when I'm trying to sign outside in the cold. Also a good way to use up some of my handspun yarn. I've been going through my stash, marking down the yardage (which I should have been doing all along as I finish plying and winding off into skeins) of my handspun yarn in an effort to find out just how much is enough for a full size sweater.

I wish there was a good way to determine just how many ounces of rovings I need to have in order to spin enough yarn for a full-sized sweater, especially with dyed rovings. I see so many nice color blends that I would like to get to spin up, but these are usually sold in 4 oz. bundle with is probably enough for a scarf or a glove. I like to spin fine, so it usually ends up that I have to ply 2 or 3 strands to get something that is thick enough for a worsted weight yarn.