2-ply sock yarn, 375 yards, 3.75 ounces.  Superwash BFL.  I wish I had a faster flyer because I felt like it took forever to ply it, and it’s still underplied in spots.  I also have upgraded my feelings about superwash from ‘hate’ to ‘dislike’.  Perhaps I’ll give it a spin again in the future.

The Abby Batt  (“Denny”) after plying and finishing.  I did this as a 2×2 cabled yarn, so that’s four plies.  Cabled yarns are supposed to make your stitch definition pop, so I need to find something that can be done with 90 yards of yarn that will show off the FREAKING PRETTY YARN.

I’ve never done gloves before, so I’m doing a really basic pattern, and I’m relying on the colors of the handspun to make them interesting.  I’m happy so far.

What’s on my wheel now?  Oatmeal BFL, of course.

And since today seemed that it might be the last possible time I could take a pictures of the leaves in my yard (after having missed some incredible shots… I has a sad), here are a couple of reasons I love my flowering pears so much.

Interesting how the focus of the whole photo changes, isn’t it?  The first seems to be trying to include the clouds and the second seems to be a little more focused on the near house and the far mountains.

Same kind of thing here.  The 18mm photo shows a sweeping expanse of clouds, backlit by the sun.  The second shows a distant mountain/island in the Great Salt Lake.

These two don’t show nearly as much difference as the previous sets, except that the second one seems to have some trouble with white balance.    I’ll have to ponder on why this is.  Any ideas?

Also, I must admit that this is probably stuff that Mr Stauffer taught me back in 1987, but which the intervening years have somehow erased.  Still, it’s fun to learn, even if it’s relearning.

One thing that I’ve been wrestling with is that when I’m standing there on Cardiff Way, the steepness of the hill I’m standing on is evident, but it doesn’t translate very well to the photo.  I think it’s because I’m pulling the lens as wide as it will go (18mm) in order to try to get as much landscape in the photo as I can.  The twilight photo at the bottom was taken at around 50mm, and I think it shows a more true representation of what I see in person.

See the difference?

This has nearly convinced me that I need to buy a 50mm lens and ditch the zoom lens.  It makes me cheat a lot when I can zoom, and I think the laziness is starting to show in my photos.