2007 has been a huge year of growth knitting wise. I have learned more this year than ever before, tackled bigger projects and discovered more about my chosen craft than I ever imagined. I had been knitting on and off for a few years but my knitting got into full swing in October of 2006. [...]
Archive for December, 2007
31 Dec
Niddy and then some, from Nick
Here’s what we look like after 2 coats of danish oil (to help bring out the grain) and 4 coats of gloss wipe on gloss poly. If things look good tomorrow it will get the final coat of satin poly tomorrow. If not a few more coats of gloss might be in [...]
29 Dec
New Obsession
So….I have begun to spin one of the Merino/Tencelblends. I know I mentioned that I would probably spin it last, because I have heard that the short fibers and slipperiness of merino/tencel could be hard to get accustomed to. But, I decided I wanted a challenge. Much to my amazement, I find this actually easier [...]
28 Dec
Niddy Noddy Noodle, from Nick
Here they are ready to finish (they are getting finished this week with my sis’ box). They will be experiments for a new finishing process I’m trying….
27 Dec
Ssshhhhh
Don’t tell favorite coworker….
Look! The laceweight is done!
I am really very proud of it. Seriously. It is not perfect, but I am happy with it. It will become the Print of the Wave Stole. For favorite coworker. But she doesn’t know yet, so don’t tell her. It is a belated Christmas gift and I cannot [...]
27 Dec
True Midwest Blizzards DO exist!
Since moving to the midwest, I have often wondered if the type of blizzards I read about in “Little House on the Prairie” still happened. You know, the type where you get turned around and perish because you cannot find the house that is 2 feet to your left. I am here [...]
20 Dec
No more posts….
‘Till after the holiday season.
I have been struggling to find something to talk about. With school, my knitting time is cut way back. I just don’t have the content I would like right now. School is over, and I will have some time to knit during the holidays. So I have decided to take some [...]
18 Dec
An open letter to my dear J
(To readers, I had a giggle because I wrote “dead J” rather than dear J, which would have about covered my attitude, freudian slip! Also, please know this is not “trouble in paradise” just a gripe, I’ll have raves to read too.)
Dear J,
When you called last night to see if I could do you [...]
18 Dec
Ummm….Sooo….
The socks for the Bug? We must consider them done. Because she refuses to take them off. She wanted to wear them to school today for “show and share.” I suspect I’d better make her more socks, she is so thrilled with these!
Also, all that yarn that I had and didn’t know what to do [...]
17 Dec
Knitterly progress
Socks done, but the fully orange one has to be redone. I want the toes to match and the leg of it is too tight, making it hard for Bug to put them on.
Next up is the beginning of the Clapotis. Now, rather than using every stitch marker in the world, I have [...]
17 Dec
Nap Time
Bug has decided that sometimes she wants to sleep in her “big girl bed” during naptime. This is actually because she wants to get up and play rather than nap. Which is fine by me, as long as she is upstairs. After about a half hour of playing I can usually call [...]
14 Dec
Fiber Fun Friday
First off, a big fat Thank You for the birthday gift my friend Sav sent me. Here it is….
Handmaiden silk/wool in colorway Paris, which is more than appropriate, you will understand why in a moment!
I SO do not deserve such a nice gift!
‘Cept, Ladies and Gentlemen, I think she might have some ulterior motives….you [...]
13 Dec
In a mad moment…
And by mad I do not mean crazy, I mean actually angry…..I cast on for another project. You see, a couple nights ago I had no knitting mojo. Looking back I think it was because I was coming down with something. It is a good sign I am getting sick if I can’t [...]
10 Dec
The Mouse
The mouse, he is dead.
Know how I know?
Because the mouse, who was supposed to take the poison back to his NEST and die, or die somewhere in my walls, with winter keeping the decay smell at bay, in a last ditch effort to annoy me, chose to die in the middle of my dining room [...]
10 Dec
My attempt at Interweave’s tilting cables socks
Over the thanksgiving holiday I decided to try Tilting Cable socks with my KPPPM. There is pattern errata which I could not access when I was trying to start them, and in the end I found I was not enjoying the pattern whatsoever as well as being a bit annoyed about the errata. [...]
6 Dec
Oh, I forgot to tell you….
My bug now calls Strawberry shortcake “strawberry cakie” Which I think is just too too cute for words!
6 Dec
Sometimes this is me!
Actually, FAR too often. Yarn Harlot graces us with another brilliantly funny post. I could not help but snort, more than once, when reading this.
6 Dec
So last night….
I wanted to hear the mouse! Yes I did! Know why? Because I bought poison. Yes, I have given up catching those little buggers via traps and have moved onto poison. I have put the poison in places I don’t think my Bug can get to it even if she was out of my site, [...]
4 Dec
Here comes your fiber
To be honest, technically, I am early. On the other hand, I can’t sleep, because when I turn out the light I can SWEAR I hear a mouse. So finally I got up and took everything under my bed out and have cleaned extremely well and set a trap. Luckily I know [...]
4 Dec
Beautiful gifts from another country
Recently a friend traveled to India. I was hoping for a little recycled sari silk or something. But I received much better than I wished for!
A shawl, all black, very pretty. I wore it yesterday with black slacks and a light blue shirt, the shawl dressed up the shirt very nicely.
A stole [...]
4 Dec
Fiber and then some.
Mountain colors, dyed by the gal I bought the wheel (and all the fiber) from. 100% wool.
Next up, a bit of knitting content.
The first side of B’s sweater is done.
As is the great sweater dissection project.
2 Dec
Get your daily fiber (a day early
This is what I am spinning now. Pippi Knee Socks color Rio, 100% wool.
I thought I would show it because I am fascinated by 2 things, how the fiber is spinning up in such pretty colors as well as how I am spinning laceweight, actual laceweight, that I am quite proud of!
2 Dec
Giving the Noodle some shape… , from Nick
Blocks of wood are not very effective at holding yarn so we need to carve these a bit. 1st I make a template out of some card stock (6-pack carton) and mark all four sides that need to be carved.
Here you can see the pattern. Note the upward sweep at the ends. [...]
2 Dec
Niddy Noddy Nick (from Nick, if you hadn’t guessed)
Oodles of Noodles…
OK lets’ get this party started… I’ve been commissioned once again to construct a wooden knitting device. This time a Niddy Noddy. Since I think the name Niddy Noddy sounds completely GHEY you will hear me refer to it as other things. For some reason noodle sticks in [...]
2 Dec
Now that is yarn worth looking at.
So my second skein is done. Made from the Bluefaced Leicester roving.
My desire is to spin laceweight. I am not quite there yet. But after spinning, plying, washing, whacking, and hanging to dry with a weight on the bottom, I have what I am pretty sure could be called fingering weight. [...]
1 Dec
Wow! That’s pretty swift ;)
This one taken this morning.
And another of the Bug taking her job VERY seriously.
She tells me “That makes for a sock!”
1 Dec
Fiber day # 2
Here you go!
Next up is 100% Alpaca, color September Twilight from The Dyeing Arts.
And, yesterday’s fiber details which I failed to post, were from Twisted Fiber Art.
