I am a Knittrix

Too bossy to be a knitter, I am indeed a knittrix. Okay, it's a made up word, but you get the idea.

Lemme test some templates right quick...This one will have to do.

Am I a knitter or a knittrix? Since er and or suffixes at least imply the masculine gender, surely I'm a knittress or knittrix.

Okay, will post a photo as soon as I finish this darned sock! :)

But first coffee, and more musing about what type of silk I will purchase for spinning :). Consistently roved silk is gorgeous. But it's more expensive than hankies and caps. Cocoons are far less expensive than hankies and caps, but then I've never spun anything in my life(unless compulsive hair twisting counts:P)

Plan is simple enough. I'll make a hand spindle(have found 2 tutorials for just that project :D). I'll order $20.00 total of silk fiber. That includes shipping&handling. I would order much more, but that sounds like plenty for a beginner.

I noticed that per gram spinning actually is cheaper than buying yarn. Especially in luxury fibers. Sure, I won't have any of that nifty machine consistency, but that's okay, since handmade is better to me(except maybe with lace yarns).

Silk should be ammong the easier fibers for a beginner to spin. The fiber itsself is immensely strong. That's good and bad I suppose. Good since strong means even with inconsistent thickness, it's less likely to break :D. Bad, since strong also means it's easy to wind up with somthing too thin :(.

But while deciding which silk to buy, what variety of moth it should come from, how processed I want it, and what colors to dye it, I'll make the spindle.

I'll make the spindle and spin my mom's poodle's hair into super soft puppy yarn, which I'm evilly tempted into knitting into a dog sweater for him to wear hehehe. It's cool cause his brush is practically a carding brush allready :D. So while grooming him I could be carding the "wool" for his nifty new sweater >:). I'm more likely to make socks or something though.

That and I'll keep knitting these socks. Right now I'm torn though and not even knitting them.

I have a lace pattern I want to use, and am actually in the process of trying different variations on this one sock untill I get the pattern right(trying to find the superfluous stitches in the pattern).

Okay, back to knitting :)