27 Feb
OK, I’ve been tagged SOOOO many times now, I’d best get it over with.
RULES:
1. Put your iTunes, Windows Media Player, etc. on shuffle.
2. For each question, press the next button to get your answer.
3.. YOU MUST WRITE THAT SONG NAME DOWN NO MATTER HOW SILLY IT SOUNDS.
4. Tag some friends.
5. Everyone tagged has to do [...]
26 Feb
And bad mojo.
I tried to spin last night. It went rather poorly. This confirms a lack of crafting mojo in the last 2 weeks.
So I decided it would be a great time to cast on for my Sylvi coat. I started with the cuff, knit about half way through, and decided I didn’t like it. [...]
24 Feb
And why.
One of my favorite things to do to keep knitting and blogging exciting is to create small challenges for myself and for the people around me. Just sit me down at a knit night, start throwing ideas back and forth, and soon a new challenge is born.
So last fall it occured to me that [...]
23 Feb
On procreation:
“Mommy, you don’t get a baby at the wedding right? You just get a baby AFTER the wedding. It is like a special surprise in your tummy!”
22 Feb
Is my reward
My icarus has finally been completed. I have found that malabrigo laceweight blocks better and faster than anything I have ever worked with. There is so little bounce back after the pins are pulled. Have I mentioned how much I love blocking? I did quite a few more than the recommended number of [...]
19 Feb
I finished pair #1 for month o’socks. Done in my own handspun, I knit Eleanor. That would be the good news, I just love how they turned out.
Now for the bad news….
I worked really hard on the Fawkes pattern, completing it to the start of the heel and adding additional repeats. It looked fantastic, I [...]
17 Feb
Of a super serious sock knitter. Or a Knitter being super serious about socks.
Monday evening, 9:30 PM status update:
Eleanor socks, 1 sock complete, second sock worked to halfway down the heel flap.
Fawkes sock, 1.5 repeats done on leg of first sock.
Tuesday morning 6:50 AM:
Eleanor socks untouched
Fawkes socks 2 complete repeats on leg of first sock.
Tuesday [...]
15 Feb
We had a small gathering of gals today to start our month of sock knitting, or knitting with sock yarn. I’ve completed one february sock and got started on the second one. This is, once again, out of my 3 ply handspun, and I am quite in love with them.
The pattern is simple and addicting, [...]
15 Feb
It is much to my chagrin that 4.5 yr olds are so picky about food. It used to be that Bug would try just about anything, but now it really takes some coaxing to get her to try new things.
Bug is learning to like Lebanese food bit by bit under the tutelage of her JJ. [...]
14 Feb
I am officially working on the last 2 charts of my icarus shawl. That is pretty darn close to being done! This has been such a long term project that it is hard to believe. I wanted to get it done before month o’ socks but I’d have to be wonder woman to manage that.
We [...]
13 Feb
I left for work, it was clear, no snow. I came home to this:
By the way, Bug is standing up in this picture, the snow was just not packed enough to stand on top of. I don’t know what our technical accumulation was, but there was a good 12 inches of rather wet snow in [...]
13 Feb
Over the past couple of days. We will get back to regularly scheduled programming tonight. But, now is a really good time to thank some people in my life.
To my family…You are the perfect ears to listen, the perfect minds to ask advice of, and the perfect shoulders to cry on.
To my local friends…You are [...]
11 Feb
I’ve been thinking about this scarf for more than a year now. I’ve been knitting it since October 08. It has been set aside frequently, and picked up again for a few rows here and there. But in this space between Month o’Socks and the Central Park Hoodie KAL, I needed to finish a long [...]
9 Feb
First of all, locks spun in the grease spin a lot easier at 70F than they do at 45F. For those who wondered, I flicked the tips open by brushing just the tips on a hand card.
I expected to be very disappointed with how these turned out. I loved the color, but the feel was [...]
8 Feb
I have had a serious case of ADD knitting this weekend. I’ll show you pictures of that mess tomorrow. But I wanted a project I could actually finish so I decided on some mitts for myself.
The yarn I had for it is handspun 2 ply. This was merino sliver from fleece artist. I spun half [...]
8 Feb
One of my rules for stitches midwest last year was to only buy fiber prepared in ways I had not spun before. So the only fiber I picked up was silk hankies, sone wool with sparkle, and dyed locks.
Even though I don’t prefer artistic novelty yarn, I wanted to experience spinning from the lock. So [...]
7 Feb
I loved the first cabled hat so much that I cast on for another one. I used J knits dream bulky, which is a wool and mohair blend, single ply. It is very very good for felting but I rather liked it for this hat too. I think this one is going to J as [...]
6 Feb
I’ve had BMFA socks that rock mediumweight in my stash for awhile now, and I love the colors. When the colors are gorgeous in the skein, I have a hard time using it to knit socks. There is something intrinsically artistic in hand dyed yarn and it pains me somewhat to ball it up. But, [...]
6 Feb
Here is a little Month o’Socks spoiler. I’ve cast on for the first 2 pairs to be knit during the month o’socks. I wanted to try out the yarn and needles, and knit some of the ribbing so that I would be able to start my sock month with a pattern.
One of my goals for [...]
4 Feb
“Never try to reason with CRAZY. They will drag you down to their level and beat you with experience.”
2 Feb
So I talked to my mom this weekend, only to find out that a pair of socks I gave her in November have already developed holes in them. Now, the yarn was knitpicks memories, which is straight merino and is discontinued. I have such a love/hate relationship with knitpicks, some of their yarn is fantastic [...]
1 Feb
I have been working on Bug’s scrappy blanket, which she is very involved in. Let me show you it!
