I finished the socks for my niece. They turned out as anklets, but I think they are cute. I hope she likes them. They are the Rushing Rivulet socks from New Pathways for Sock knitters. (Ravelry details) Last week Anabel and I had a mini dyeing party. She wanted to dye some curtains and I had some...
I'm just back from the Reading Festival, and - inspired by Kauket - decided to take some sock knitting with me. A quick peruse of my sock stash and queue turned up nothing planned that's simple enough that I don't need a pattern, but then I remembered that friend-R, who bought the autumn-coloured...
So McCain's running mate is a female, huh? This has been a pretty historic campaign year for America. We've had our first offical African American candidate as the Democratic Party's candidate. We'vve had our first woman run for president. Now we have our first woman running as vice president. (For...
There's a reason I don't scrapbook very often--I am terribly slow at it and there are not a lot of 2 hour chunks I can claim to myself! I also start a lot of pages but they get saved as WIP (work in progress) because I am not 100% happy with how they are turning out. Anyway, I scrapped today....
By Michael Johns I wouldn't exactly call Jeffrey Lurie, the owner of my beloved Philadelphia Eagles, a good friend, or even a friend at all really. But we share enough in common: the same birthday (September 8th) and a passionate love for the Eagles, which in my case goes back to the age of six or...
A few weeks ago I received an invitation to attend a "Ladies' Tea" in the community where I live. It was addressed to me by name, albeit the wrong name. You see, I have a double, non-hyphenated last name, and people outside my circle of friends and family rarely get my name right in writing, or...
I have yet to post any information about the Jawbreaker Cardigan intended as a Christmas gift. From Interweave Knits Winter 2006 I've got the back and the right front made. I'm currently working on the left front. Because the yarn (my beloved Rowan "Plaid") knits up fast I may have the left front...
If there's a way to alter the order of the photos to the left, I can't work out what it is :-( So, in slightly bizarre order, my latest adventures in fibre: (top picture) this is my first attempt at carding, using all the stray bits of fibre from my other projects, which I've been collecting in a...
So...apparently, I knit things? I don't know. I am getting frustrated with myself because I am unable to actually just FINISH anything. I just start things, knit on them, and then stop. Meanwhile, I am adding more and more patterns to my "To Knit" list every single day. Oy. In an effort to face...
Okay, time for a goal report. Per my last post, I was supposed to complete just ONE of my five works-in-progress. Are you ready for the status check? Drumroll, please. It will shock no one to learn that I did not accomplish this first goal. Still, it should be noted that I went down fighting....
This is the result of the Caribbean fibre I bought from Freyalyn's Etsy shop :-) It's two-ply, about 324m and about 200g. Unfortunately (for me), I chose this to make for Katie, who gave me my wheel - I checked that she knits when she gave me it, and promised to spin her something. It's lovely and I...
I've spun five-eights of the Wisteria fibre (from Freyalyn on Etsy). Four of those eighths (ie 100g) are wheelspun with a long draw (my first attempt at same), and then wheel-plied into lovely soft squooshy aran-ish three-ply, about 100m thereof (top picture). The leftovers from the three-ply made...
These are the (finally!) finished Shadow and Ghost socks (from the Cheshire cat pattern at Purlescence). They're a late birthday present for female-friend-R (in honour of her grey-Ghost-cat and her black-Shadow-cat), who seemed pleased with them and impressed at the cleverness of me (even though I...
Well I'm feeling a bit under the weather. That is hampering my knitting. Mostly because I just want to sit mindlessly watching a DVD and pass out. Still, I made some great strides the past week. First, I finished my hat for Hat Attack! Hat Attack was so much fun. And I now have way more confidence...
In the last week, I've had two crafting dates with different groups of women, and I've resurrected two old projects. In the first crafting date, with one knitter, one mender and one, umm, court jester ;-) (R did bring some work with her, but in the end she didn't do any of it), I swatched yet...
So I've been pretty frustrated with the fact that my crocheting is always inside-out and/or upside-down. I decided to consult YouTube to figure out what the deal was. My problem is/was that I tossed my yarn like I do when I knit (I guess that's English style vs. Continental? or something like that)....
I've been working on Oblique, trying to get it finished by stitches. I haven't made much progress, well I made progress then I ripped it out. I was all the way to the bottom ribbing and I put it on and realized that it was awful. Boiled ass is how I described to the BobaKnitters. While I was trying...
Hurry up, microwave, I'm in a hurry here! ... I worked on these projects while watching Futurama last night. This is a wrap/stole thing I meant to give my mom for Xmas. It's so big, though, that it's taking me forever. If you can't tell from the majority of FOs I post here, I like small cute things....
I really wish I'd posted about finishing things - because I actually did this week!! - but now I can't recall every little detail I wanted to write about. Lets see . . . on Thursday, February 7th, I finished my Gnome. He's not perfect - I made a lot of boo-boos. But I have a good jumping off point...
I went to the Purlescence sale yesterday. I was trying to stay away, but I was holding out hope that All Seasons Cotton would be on sale, so I could get some to make Manon. It wasn't, but I found some Maizy and Puffin that I liked, for socks and a baby blanket, respectively. Then I broke down and go...
