Finish something today!
I thought about my projects, guessed that I would not finish socks or lace today, and decided that Thursdays really are for spinning. I’ve been spinning up this chameleon colorworks optim in colorway veridian. I wanted laceweight singles. I think optim deserves a little explination. Optim is merino which has been mechanically stretched. [...]
Archive for October, 2008
30 Oct
I needed to…
25 Oct
Ooops!
So, the sweater did not fit J either, it was just too short. Currently it looks like this:
I did manage to fix the sleeves, but I need to add length to the front and back, and then put the collar back on. This is a lot of hard work, and I just cannot get inspired [...]
24 Oct
That time if year…
When it is too dark by the time I get home to take a decent picture. Oh well.
I’ve been spinning this merino top from Lorna’s Laces for awhile now. I am having trouble getting it done as it is 5 oz. as opposed to my normal 4, and I have had other obligations. I’ve half [...]
23 Oct
A Contest!
As many of you know, I don’t eat a lot of meat. Most of the time I don’t eat any. I choose to do this for my own health and because I believe that the large farming practices in the US are terribly far from what eating should be. I believe this is a detriment [...]
22 Oct
Where’s Shells?
Happily knitting of course! And with what? Well….you may wonder why…but I’ve good reason to be knitting with this:
I know I know, I got rid of some obscene amount last year, because I became a yarn snob. But the project called for just such a perfect color combination.
You see, my mom asked me to make [...]
20 Oct
Well that just made my evening!
So, the scarf posted below was done in a little barter with Nick, his intention is to give it to the gal he is seeing for her birthday. Hence the need to get it done on a deadline. Nick received the scarf in the mail today, along with some socks I had done for a [...]
20 Oct
I haven’t deserted you…
I’ve just been sick, so not in the mood to knit or blog or do anything else. Though I do have a finished project which is long overdue for a post. I finished this one on Thursday but didn’t bother to post it.
I may not like knitting with kidsilk haze, but I really love the [...]
15 Oct
A scarf in a week
At least that is the attempt I am making. I am halfway there, having officially started working on it on Sunday. I’d like to get it in the mail on Saturday but I am not sure that will happen. If it is in the mail on Monday, it will still be ok.
13 Oct
To say that…
The Bug likes her hat would be the understatement of the year.
She put it on last evening and wore it all evening once it was done. By the time she came inside for the night she had all manner of weeds and dead grass in it from rolling down the hill.
She wanted to wear it [...]
12 Oct
3 FO’s in one day…
Life is good!
Bug’s Bug is done, and it is absolutely adorable! I love the little pointy top of it. This pattern is found in Debbie Bliss Junior Knits. I made it out of a malabrigo worsted that Bug picked out herself. The pattern was written for flat knitting and seamed, but I just didn’t see [...]
12 Oct
Another finishing weekend
Since I have vowed to get myself from 17 WIP’s down to 5, I am in full on finishing mode. Which is a lot more satisfying than startitis.
This weekend I finished a rather large project which was hanging over my head. The sweater is for J, and I made it for his holiday. I did [...]
12 Oct
My first Angelina
382 yards 3 ply wool with some Angelina. It has a somewhat rustic look to it as it was spun from batts and I used a long draw technique. So there are little nuppy places in the yarn, but it is consistently nuppy which makes it the look of the overall yarn. I am surprised [...]
11 Oct
The promised story
So at the conference, as I was knitting my sweater, I got lots of various comments. Not all of them were from my group, some from other groups as well. I’d often get someone who wanted updates or someone who would comment about their wife being a knitter. Then there was the various stale jokes [...]
9 Oct
A quick update…
A conference story to follow tomorrow.
I wanted to post the progress of the sweater that I so monogamously knitted on at the conference.
The first day I swore I’d cheat on that sweater. Will power brought me to the second day.
The second day I realized I might finish the back, so I stayed faithful. I did [...]
6 Oct
Updates
Conference is going swimmingly, and I have 9 more repeats to finish the back of the yellow and gray sweater. Then on to the sleeves!!! 2 more full days of conference knitting should get me to the sleeves at least!
4 Oct
Project updates
In an effort to get my WIP’s under control, I am in the midst of documenting a few my readers haven’t seen yet.
There is the malabrigo worsted purple hat, yarn which Bug picked for herself. Interestingly, Bug is also the name of the pattern being used.
And another scarf that NIck will be giving as a [...]
4 Oct
October Sock Challenge
This will be my second month in the Sock Knitters Anonymous monthly challenge, and again I am entering 2 socks. This month the challenge is to work patterns from a specific designer, Stephanie van der Linden. I have chosen to knit Lizzy:
And Escher’s Cube:
So far so good…stay tuned for an attempt to get my 17 [...]
2 Oct
Moonlight Walk
I spun this merino/tencel blend from C*eye*ber fiber which has been sitting in my stash since I got my first wheel. It is about time I spun it up! As I was spinning it, I thought of steel and silver, with the lovely shine. But as I was plying it, I thought of something else [...]
