Posted in Spinning on May 30, 2008 | 8 Comments »
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The single green skein is the end of a bump of alpaca, romney, and mohair that I bought in March of this year.
The heathered purple, blue, and green skeins are three-ply Corriedale and total about 670 yards. I started spinning that 8 oz. bump in March last year. So it [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 28, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I’ve been wanting to try some sort of pattern manager or tamer like the kind being sold at the Loopy Ewe, one of my favorite little shops, but I didn’t want to pay the $15.00 for a set. I’d rather spend money on fiber or yarn, but every so often you have to increase [...]
Posted in 2008 Knits, lace on May 27, 2008 | 4 Comments »
I just couldn’t settle into knitting on my larger pieces yesterday, so I cast on another garter stitch washcloth while I watched Charade with Audrey Hepburn and Cary Grant. As a result, I decided to call this the “Charade” washcloth.
Not very imaginative I know, but no one said that I had to be creative every [...]
Posted in 2008 Knits, random on May 26, 2008 | 3 Comments »
We didn’t go quite as many places on Sunday, though we did a great many things at the house. We cleaned out the rabbit barn, moved rabbits around, and prepped nesting boxes before lunch. After lunch we cleaned the flower beds near my deck, planted seeds, mulched, and watered. Then we repeated the landscaping process [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 24, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Sculpture by the Farmer’s Market. Lovely tasty things to be had here. The Lafayette Farmer’s Market has been held for about 100 years, if I remember correctly. They still hold it by the courthouse every Sat. morning.
Speaking of the courthouse, here’s the fountain near it. . .
And here is the Courthouse from [...]
Posted in 2008 Knits, lace, shawl on May 22, 2008 | 16 Comments »
Over nine feet of knitted lace, 16 days, 10 blocking wires, a handful of pins, and a good soak later, here is the finished result.
This is a wedding shawl for a friend, being graciously modeled by my friend and co-worker Brittany. Isn’t she cute in that shawl? She reminds me of a Greek statue.
A little [...]
Posted in Uncategorized on May 19, 2008 | 11 Comments »
One of the clematis bloomed last week. Here are a few shots of the first day and then a shot from a few days later.
The shawl is still in progress and it is going to be huge. I’m about 90% done, I think.
Oh, and this is my outlook for yesterday, today, and likely [...]
Posted in SDS Club on May 15, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I am very pleased with this month’s shipment. A nice small project, some lovely cotton yarn, chocolate, tea, soap, bath salts, and a small beeswax candle (wrapped in the tissue paper still). This month’s theme was Wrath vs. Peace, where the club designers decided to focus on ways to make us feel more [...]
Posted in confessions, loot on May 14, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Malabrigo lace in Tortuga. I love the lighter areas of purple and green that come through in this otherwise black yarn. I like this colorway so well that I’m thinking of buying the last skein in this dye lot from my LYS, River Knits.
I also bought another set of Chibi needles and some of the [...]
Posted in 2008 Knits, knitting, lace, shawl on May 13, 2008 | 4 Comments »
After finishing my last lace project, I was still feeling the lace itch, so I searched through my stash for a new yarn to work with. I considered many options and finally settled upon some Misti Alpaca Lace in a lovely cream color.
Choosing a yarn means choosing a new pattern; which always means perusing [...]
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