Small update

Hey you!

I hope you're still with me :) Exams are coming up, so i'm a bit busy with statistics stuff, but there is some progress I want to share:

First: I finished spinning my sweater yarn (hope it's enough...) and now I only need to find my lovely measurement sheet, because I don't want to retake all the measurements, argh! Then swatch knitting, pattern calculating, seeing if it works. It's 841g of navajo-plied zwartbles fiber, about 10-11 wpi. It took moe then 2kg raw wool (that I washed, sorted, combed, etc.) and about 44 hrs to finish this sweaterload of yarn.

Second: I dyed some swatches with black hollyhock blossoms and I'm very pleased with the outcome (plant dyes are lovely!). I used 15% alum mordant and 15% dried black hollyhock blossoms (percentage of dry wool weight). I will try more plants as soon as I finish spinning the swatch skeins.

Third: I've been working on programming a calculator (I'm actually supposed to do my programming homework, but who could resist...) that gives you the right amount of stitches for "perfect" knit/crochet (hemi)spheres. I'm working hard on making it accessible online and easy to use for everyone, if you're interested in the very very very basic version just for the fun of it (still has a fair amount of glitches that I need to even out, and let's not talk about looks...), drop me a line. I'm eager to see if it works for you. I'm currently knitting/crocheting test objects, like a baby blue boobie cushion (:D) and a big, soon-to-be-felted bowl to keep my projects in. I'll keep you updated on the progress ;)