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These two have more friends, of course. One sweater's worth of them.
They're not going to get cuddly and up close to knitting needles just yet, though - there are a few other things that need finishing or taking care of first (such as the sprang thing that is still waiting on its frame, happily, for instance). I've done the swatch already though, and picked out a pattern - the wool will, eventually, turn into a nice cardigan.
Eventually.
Speaking of turning yarns into knitted items, I've been following @WoolsackUK on Twitter for a while now, and one of the recent tweets linked to an article about knitting with a specific technique in Yorkshire, called "swaving". From what the Knitting Genealogist writes on that blog, the technique is lost today - but it does sound like a fascinating field of study. If you're interested in old knitting techniques, you might enjoy that article (and possibly others on the same blog.)