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Progress visible and barely visible

I have stayed focused since my last post and worked almost exclusively on my cowl and plying.

The cowl is only a few rows away from complete though I definitely have a game of yarn chicken in progress:

A cowl on circular needles being knit of white handspun and tweed yarn in green, blue and orange with brioche, cables and blocks of purl and knit. An inset in the lower right shows the same cowl before the 2nd brioche section.

If I need to I can finish it with more of the white yarn, but I am really hoping the little ball of orange holds out.

The plying though… if I didn’t have an earlier picture to compare it to…

Propped up against a glass coffee pot with green cosy is a bottom whorl drop spindle with light yellow/purple yarn being plied from a ply ball next to it. All sit on a burgundy and white woven place mat. A small insert image shows the same sindle with slightly less plied yarn on it.

I would swear my efforts this week had disappeared into the ether. Even so, I have to look carefully to see the ply ball is smaller and the spindle fatter.

I really do like though how the colors look different against the different backgrounds. The light wood makes it really peachy, but against the burgundy of the placemat the yellow is stronger and it has more of a glow. That’s part of the fun of a yarn spun from multi-colored fiber. I have to keep this joy in mind to keep slogging through the rest of the plying.

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