30 Sep
I finished Nicks orange socks today. I used a short row heel and toe and made them toe up, using a tubular bind off. I do hope they fit him!
Tubular bind off is a technique I will need for 2 projects, one of them is a brick red scarf that I promised Nick last year, [...]
30 Sep
I’ve been anxious lately, about many things. Some of which will be off my plate shortly and some more long term issues. Nothing to be concerned about really, just you know what we can do when we start to worry about something!
I notice that my anxiety takes on the form of dreams. I have restless [...]
29 Sep
Bites the dust!
715 yards, 2 ply laceweight 65% merino 35% silk. Fiber dyed by Sanguine Gryphon, colorway Kates Beach.
28 Sep
Remember this post? Well, the gal who gave me a discount on roving as well as a bunch of free rovings agreed to let me spin one up for her. It has been on the back burner as I left on vacation soon after I received the rovings and life has been a bit insane [...]
28 Sep
Bug and I have been hard at work this weekend finding ways to organize her toys because “Mommy doesn’t want to see my toys all the time!” as she tells people. It is true, I am sick and tired of the house being all aclutter because she doesn’t put away her toys. But truthfully, I [...]
27 Sep
I’ve been talking about doing it, thinking about doing it, preparing to do it, anticipating it, and yet I just don’t. Until this weekend.
Dyeing fiber that is. I just….felt like everything I make is going to turn out ugly as sin. But I also know I have to buckle down and experiment a bit before [...]
24 Sep
Somehow this finished yarn looks like light brights to me, all those colorful plastic pegs all jumbled up together.
3 oz., 326 yards sockweight 2 ply BFL.
23 Sep
A spinning blog all of a sudden?
I’ve apparently gotten reinspired, and since my last roving was very subtle in colors, I thought I’d got for the brights this time.
I should finish this tonight, that is the hope anyhow.
I also finished up one of Nicks orange socks. I call these practice socks, since I needed to [...]
22 Sep
This is, by far, my favorite spinning I have done yet. 3 ply sock weight, 373 yards. Enchanted knoll farms 100% merino in pumpkin soup. I am not positive that I will list this one, it might make it straight into my stash. I love it too much!
21 Sep
I’ve been putting off finishing my grandpa’s socks. Not that I don’t want to do them, it is just that I am fickle and some new project I have never made before calls to me. I knew that all I needed was one weekend to apply myself and get them done. So this was the [...]
18 Sep
My knitting friends and I discussed the other night the implementation of a “Thursday’s are for Spinning” day in my week. I am complaining that I have too many knit projects to get spinning done, and I don’t like it. If I choose one day of the week to dedicate to spinning, I will accomplish [...]
17 Sep
Do you know what that is? Perhaps you are asking yourself why I would post a picture of my recycle bin. I’ll tell you why. In the bottom of that recycle bin is a torn up pattern. The pomatamus pattern in fact. I tore it up in an indication that I will never again knit [...]
15 Sep
Miss Bug wanted a purple scarf to match her purple malabrigo hat which she doesn’t have yet. After I offered her a few options which she wasn’t satisfied with, we found some purple lambs pride in my stash. When I realized that I didn’t really have enough for a scarf, I decided a neck warmer [...]
14 Sep
Last evening, while at a gathering of very nice women, I finished my handspun socks for the Sock Knitters Annonymous September Sock Down Challenge.
The challenge is that one will knit a pair of socks out of orange yarn. The yarn needs to be at least 75% orange. The general rule is if you have to [...]
13 Sep
I wanted to pull out a few things I made BK (before Knitting) and get them documented. Because even though I did not create in myself the obsession that was created AK (after Knitting) I did very much enjoy my learning to crochet. I specifically enjoyed filet crochet for awhile, and though I gave away [...]
9 Sep
Bug: (refering to the handspun montego bay scarf) “Mommy, I want a scarf like this!”
Me: (thinking I might have an out of knitting a purple hat out of purple malabrigo) “OH! Do you want me to knit your purple yarn into a scarf like this?”
Bug: “No! That is gonna be a hat, we need to [...]
7 Sep
It has become apparent that when it comes to knitting, I am a joiner. You see, it all started last July with Mystery Stole 3, or MS3. I joined up and knit that lace in a surprisingly short amount of time. And then I was hooked! I promptly joined quite a few other mystery lace [...]
4 Sep
While I was at stitches, I had some purchasing rules. I stuck to them like glue. One of the rules was, when buying spinning fiber, buy fibers which I am not accostumed to and have not experimented with. I’ve always wanted to try spinning silk hankies, and never was there a better place to pick [...]
3 Sep
Bug: Mommy, when are you going to have a baby? I want to be a big sister.
Me: I can’t have a baby right now.
Bug: Why not?
Me: Because I am not married, so I can’t have a baby.
Bug: Oh, so when are you going to get married?
Me: I don’t know Bug, might be a long time. [...]
2 Sep
J: What is this? My hair is falling out! It is falling out worse than ever!
Me: Well, sometimes men lose their hair as they age.
J: Not me! I’ve never lost hair like this, this is ridiculous!
Me: What do you think the problem is?
J: I don’t know sweetie, maybe I am lacking something in my diet. [...]
2 Sep
I’ve hit a critical point on the mandala shawl. The last time you saw it, it looked like this. Quite frankly, to the untrained eye it doesn’t look much different at the moment. I am about 4 rows away from the end of clue #4. It will not be large enough for a shawl as [...]
