Baby surprise jacket
I meant to blog this as I worked on it. Honest. The yarn is my handspun merino-bamboo blend “Fire Opal” hand-painted by the talented Moonlightbaker. The blogging plan went awry though. I couldn’t sleep, my brains felt like they were going to explode and there’s nothing more soothing to painful brains than a knitting project [...]
Finished Object
Well, almost. My friend Opal sent me some delicious handpainted fiber in a care package which enabled my latest knitting project. Can you tell what it is? It’s a spiralling scarf. Constructed like a flat doily, the only difference is that I didn’t stop making sections when it reached a circle, I just kept knitting [...]
Why yes, I am doing things with yarn
Last winter I checked Spinning for Softness and Speed by Paula Simmons out from the Salem Library. (One thing I do have to say for our area, the libraries are knitter and spinner friendly places.) The yarn pictured was the result of reading said book and trying the techniques therein, I wasn’t really fond of [...]
Being offline sucks
On the bright side, being offline gave me plenty of time to start (and finish) a sweater for the girl-child. It’s a gray 4-ply spindle spun merino yarn, 5 stitches per inch. Mostly from the size 30″ child’s raglan pattern from “the knitter’s handy book of sweater patterns” by Ann Budd. I was sort of [...]
C’est Fini: Icarus
I finished the Icarus shawl today. Here is a close up of it. I’ll bask in the glory of completion for a little while, before a good bout of Post Project Depression settles in. This is my first big lace project from a chart, it’s the first shawl I’ve ever knit from my own yarn, [...]
It’s hard to knit with webby fingers
Still wrestling with the hosting situation, there are so many things that I rely on my websites to do that it makes me really appreciative of them when they are down. Finally yarnporn is loaded and I think all the pages are working (I used the link checker, but have to go through with my [...]
Cow abductions are real
Cow abductions are serious business, don’t be fooled– first the aliens will take a few cows and when bored with bovines they will take our sheep. Don’t let this happen, lets stop those bad aliens before they threaten our wool supply. I am seriously craving a jumbo flyer for my Traveller wheel. I have four [...]
Mail Day!
Mail day! Opal aka the AkamaiKnitter sent me some goodies! The teal green wool is amazing to spin, and I’m looking forward to breaking into those cookies and candies after the kidlets go to bed. Well of course Opal deserves a good mail day too so among her stuff will be enough silk yarn to [...]
Beaded yarn!
Merino! Beads! They go together so naturally, like ice-cream and rootbeer. Like anything crafty the more I practice making beaded yarn the more pleasurable the process becomes. I am particularly fond of the light green one, the glass on the beads is actually blue and the paint inside is bright pink. On the light blue [...]