Can you consider your roots without considering your family? I don’t think so. I do understand that perhaps not everyone has family in the most traditional sense, but even those people find themselves family where it works best.
I am blessed with some of the best family around, I am convinced of it! I think my [...]
Archive for May, 2008
31 May
Familial Roots
29 May
New Roots
I find that everywhere I go I am making new roots. To me, I find this to be one of the most stressful things to do. Yet if I look back on the places I have lived, it is the places where I actively cultivated friendships and developed ties to an area that [...]
27 May
Trees and Roots
When I first saw the pattern for the Francie sock, I was immediately drawn to it as a pattern. I instantaneously wanted to knit them for J because it seems that all his childhood memories (at least the ones he chooses to share) are tree related. He talks of olive orchards and olive trees thousands [...]
27 May
A knitblog week off
So here is the deal, I’ve been pondering a couple things quite a bit this past week, and I have decided to take a week off from posting knitting related content here. (With the exception of the loopy ewe sneak up providing it contains the yarn I helped dye so I can link to it.)
Instead, [...]
25 May
Wanna see something?
I’ve begun the lite lopi sleeve, and added corresponding colorwork to it. The rest will be plain coopworth, but I am stretching it as far as it will go.
To be honest, I am not sure how much I like it and I may rip it back and just do plain coopworth, I have yet to [...]
24 May
Mmmmm….malabrigo
So I have, thus far, avoided the malabrigo craze. I’ve drooled over it at my favorite LYS, but just haven’t decided to pick any up. Yes, it is soft and yummy, but it was one of those yarns that I kept saying “eventually.”
J is coming home on Sunday. I wanted to have a little more [...]
24 May
Francie sock #1
I finished the francie sock and started on the second sock. I am completely pleased with how it turned out, the yarn is lovely, the pattern interesting and stunning. The one suggestion I have for knitting this sock is that it looks deceivingly long as you are knitting it. Do not concern yourself, it all [...]
22 May
Lemon Yellow
The final lite lopi color is completely spun.
Spinning this gave me areas of yellow with areas of cream, reminding me of the inside of my moms homemade cream puffs. What a great memory to have with me as I spun!
So all 4 colors together look nice, the green and the yellow are quite bright with [...]
20 May
Socks in trees
Finished J’s socks today. I am fairly certain that it wouldn’t have happened today except that we had a long meeting at work where I could knit under the table.
Duet middi sock yarn, which I adore. Makes for a very nice hefty pair of socks. I made them quite wide so I think they really [...]
20 May
Taste the rainbow
I finished another skein of the color for the lite lopi. It began here, where I dyed the merino with first koolaid then easter egg dye.
It is of course absolutely necessary to see the 3 finished colors together.
I started spinning the final color last evening, so by this weekend I should be done with the [...]
19 May
A little more of dyeing day
One of the gals who came to knit night the day I was dyeing with Miss V took pictures. I ganked them.
I would say this is less than half of the yarn we did that day, maybe 1/3? This is the last batch sitting on the fence.
19 May
A good day
I placed an order with The Loopy Ewe to get my loopy groupie status. I wanted to get that status so I’d get the famed emails of sneak up notice. I was unconcerned about that, until the dyeing day with Miss V. Now I figured I’d better get groupie status so I knew when the [...]
19 May
I am eating…
Smoked vegetables in a red sauce over angel hair pasta.
I can make the burning of good food sound classy right?
18 May
Francie sock
This weekend has been full of the usual knitting and spinning, as well as a fantastic weekend with Miss Bug, where we worked on her ability to go to bed and actually stay there. We are doing well now. We have the wandering down the stairs to 2 times a night rather than [...]
16 May
Denial
About 2 weeks ago I began to panic that the kauni sweater would be too small. That it just might not fit. So like anyone who likes to practice a good dose of denial every now and then, I stopped working on it and chose to ignore it. Until tonight.
Yes, it does [...]
16 May
A bit of excitement
I finished the first of J’s duet socks yesterday. Toe up, afterthought heel, in my favorite no thinking pattern. I think I can finish the second sock by next weekend when he is supposed to come home. Looks a little odd on my foot as my feet are way too small to fit the socks.
Yesterday [...]
14 May
My own sock wars
Seems like I’ve been hearing a lot about sock wars lately, an event I decided not to participate in this year. I know I could compete but I wasn’t sure I really wanted to. (An “assassin” style game played by knitting your target a pair of socks and shipping them off before you get assassinated.)
I [...]
12 May
Hypnosis socks
Are done! They really were hypnosis socks, as I couldn’t seem to put them down. I love the colorway, just very rich and pretty. The colors flowed nicely one to another, no awkward pooling.
I have one complaint about the design, it leaves a ridge over the top of my foot that wants to pop up. [...]
11 May
More Figgy Pudding
I promised brighter pictures, and they can be found at the etsy listing. I cannot get wordpress to upload my pictures right now, so the listing will have to do!
11 May
Figgy Pudding BFL
I’ll have more and better pictures of this just as soon as we see some sunshine around here, but I wanted to get it posted.
390 yards sock weight yarn spun from Chameleon Colorworks figgy pudding colorway.
I keep saying that I do not like spinning BFL, but this was wonderful to spin. So apparently I had [...]
9 May
Hypnosis
I finished one hypnosis sock, colorway is peacock from chameleon colorworks.
I took some liberties with the pattern and ended up quite pleased with it. I would not have liked it as written though. Way too short of a leg.
8 May
ADD knitting
I’ve not been able to focus on any one project for a couple of weeks now. I wish I could, I just can’t. And if I cannot focus on a project, it never feels like progress is being made, and so I don’t post anything at all.
So instead, perhaps I should show you [...]
6 May
Well that’s that
Public speaking class is over, final was tonight. I chose to complete 50 out of the 65 available extra credit points this half. I received A’s or A+’s all the way through so that class is at least a solid A. I am quite pleased. And also glad it is over. Though there is a [...]
6 May
Base Color
I have finally spun a hank of the coopworth roving which will be used as the base yarn for the light lopi sweater.
I have to say, this is the first time I have ever spun something that had so much vegetable matter (VM) in it. I had to stop quite frequently to pick out this [...]
5 May
Citrus!
BFL, 220 yards, navajo plyed.
I don’t think I like to spin BFL as much as everyone else does.
4 May
Monkeying around again.
I finished another pair of Monkey’s. These are actually for me. I could start the pattern all over again believe it or not!
Made from left over handmaiden mini maiden that I used for my Clapotis.
In other news, J is off to Europe for 3 weeks. I know that we often go 3 weeks without seeing [...]
2 May
What shall we talk about today?
We could perhaps talk about how Bug has prompted me to set up an appointment to get my hair cut by yesterday noting “Mommy, it must be crazy hair day at your school, cause your hair is crazy!”
Or we could talk about how J’s BMW oil sensor is again not working. A fact that he [...]
