Project promiscuity (Ella)

This is what Ella looks like at the moment (photo taken without flash to better capture the texture):



It's crazily three-dimensional, with squarish bobbles that pop up or down, and I keep having to stretch it out to reassure myself that it will probably block flat:



I'm only a few rows away from the point where the back splits into the two fronts, which is good going, especially since I've been knitting most of this in the same timeframe as Wisteria.

Weekend of crafty goodness

I spent this weekend with Frax and J, dyeing lots and lots of yarn, knitting (and spinning for me), and watching a hefty chunk of Battlestar Galactica.

This is what I came home with:



That's overdyed yak yarn (previously salmon pink, cream and grey) at the front, a whole load of previously-undyed Cumbrian wool yarn at the middle and the back (it's semi-solid rather than solid, but more consistent in colour in real life than it looks in the photo), and some handspun undyed grey wool in the middle-back (this is going to be Wisteria). It feels as if I suddenly have lots of new yarn, and I've even started knitting the violet wool:



There's a lot more of it now than when I took the photo, but this is Ella from Knitty, and it's working out rather nicely :-)