30 Apr
I have realized that this designer cannot go wrong. She just has a lovely eye for lace patterns. This shawl is stunning!
I finished the bind off last evening and blocked it over night.
I am wearing it today!
I used Shibui sock yarn in colorway Pagoda, which is a subtle variation in rust tones. I [...]
28 Apr
So J and I decided we needed some cake. We haven’t enjoyed something sweet and yummy together for a long time. I, being used to traditional cakes, decided I needed to find something that was more within the types of foods that J might eat. Basically this means a cake not requiring shortening and a [...]
27 Apr
I’ve got a full pattern of Kauni done. I love it. What surprises me the most is that it goes fast! I knit as fast in colorwork as I do in knitting. So what felt like an overwhelming project is much less daunting now.
23 Apr
Yes, I have been saying I would do it for quite some time. And now I have. It is my pleasure to present my very own etsy shop.
I have listed the handspun I have been working on lately, with more to come soon. If you have any questions at all, just [...]
23 Apr
I gave my last speech yesterday, and I think I did well. What was even more fun was that I had taken my audience analysis surveys which I filled out for the other speech givers very seriously. I wrote at length why I thought gas prices would continue to climb. I asked the speech giver [...]
22 Apr
I’ve been keeping this a secret so I was not able to post progress pictures. Now the secret is out, and the monkeys can be blogged.
My coworker M is retiring after 38 yrs of working at our university. I am going to miss her terribly. I wanted to give her something to remember us by, [...]
21 Apr
I’ve been making socks. Monkey socks. What a fun little pattern!
Tomorrow I finish turning the heel and then I am on home stretch of sock #1
And I’ve picked up the Kauni again, and I am loving it again too! The colors are lining up more appropriately, but I cannot be sure that will be the [...]
20 Apr
I spent the day yesterday finishing up some half done spinning projects. I was on a roll from 4:18 AM to 11:30 PM. I got a 40 minute nap but that was it. Bug and I spent most of the day outside, her playing and me spinning. Or she read to [...]
19 Apr
And my first lace working both sides. I’ve only taken a detail shot of the clue.
18 Apr
With hopefully more to come over the weekend.
I’ve been plugging away at work on my handspun branching out modified scarf. It feels like it goes incredibly slow, but at least it is getting done bit by bit.
I’d like to gift it, but I am not entirely sure it will ever be something that is [...]
11 Apr
A new person was hired recently. In my department, but in another building. When the notice was sent out, I thought I had seen or heard her name before. But I could not place it. Today there was a retirement party which caused us to have to go to that very [...]
11 Apr
Bug’s school is doing a theme week. Yesterday was Crazy Hair Day. I was all excited, planning on putting a ton of pony tails all over her head. I thought it would be fun!
I went to go get her up from bed and reminded her it was crazy hair day.
Bug: “I don’t want to do [...]
10 Apr
I picked Bug up from school yesterday, she informed me that they had a “science” day. I was rather interested to hear what consisted of a “science” day. I asked her, and she informed me that the wind could come and break windows, though not today. So they were going to go to the library [...]
10 Apr
I will have to perform major reconstructive surgery in the middle cable braid of my mystic light shawl. I am just trying to gather the courage to do so. Maybe this weekend. I messed one of them up during clue 2. I thought I could live with one messed up. Then I messed up 2 [...]
7 Apr
Everything gets done, slowly but surely. I’d do well to remember that some days.
Clue 2 to mystic light is done.
I lost a bunch of stitches off the ends when blocking it out for pictures, so that means only one side of the shawl seen from here on out.
I also finished one sock and started [...]
7 Apr
Bug has taken to picking on me when she is in a particularly good mood. And reasoning with her doesn’t work, she has an answer for every argument. Which is probably ultimately a good thing, she really thinks everything through, but I know it will be cause for trouble for me eventually.
Her “time out” chair [...]
6 Apr
It occurred to me just now that I have not turned on the TV all weekend long! This was not a conscious effort on my part to go TVless, I just never got around to it, and always had other things to think about and do. I like that!
I finished spinning the orange [...]
3 Apr
Well I am hoping by now I got it back, but, you may be amused by my latest story.
Yesterday I was to take a tour of a lab which required that I have a copy of my work ID. I knew the day before that I would need this, so I stored away my ID [...]
3 Apr
Yup, I’ve been relegated to the couch. Now why might a single gal like me have no choice but to sleep on the couch? My knitting made me do it.
I finished casting off for print o’the wave yesterday at work. I had a rather full schedule last evening, came home, made Bug [...]
1 Apr
Le grande clapotis is done!
It is terribly soft and I stayed up way too late dropping the stitches last night. I would not recommend using handmaiden mini maiden for this project, the soft singles yarn felts together and makes dropping the stitches very tedious.
I am modeling it with my latest antonio melani acquisition, last years [...]
