There is new yarn in the store since my last post; some sock yarns and some felting yarns. Gorgeous, bright colors! They are double-dip kettle-dyed, which essentially means they were put through 2 dye baths. All of my new sock yarns so far are named after food. I wonder if I was hungry when I [...]
Tags: alpaca, cashmere, dyeing, hoarding, mistakes, moving, rant, socks, sweater, wool, yarn
Yesterday was a very slow day at work, so I got quite a bit of knitting done between that and waiting for my MMA class to begin. In fact, I stayed up late turning the heel on my second sock because I wanted to get through to the straight part of the leg. Naturally, I [...]
Tags: cotton, dyeing, frog, handmade, heel, injury, lessons, mistakes, recycle, silk, socks, stash, thrift, UFO, wool, yarn
Well, it’s happened again. I have been overenthusiastic about my sock-knitting, and I have inured a tendon in my hand. Seeing as I went through almost this same injury about a month ago, I really should have learned better by now. The fact that my hands were feeling puffy and swollen in the mornings after [...]
It’s very liberating to be able to play with a project and not have it matter if things aren’t mapped out perfectly. The sock recipe I’m using allows me a lot of flexibility! I got bored doing ribbing, so I added in some cables. What I intended to be a peach stripe came out bright [...]
I finished a project! The crochet baby blanket I was making for Michelle is finally done. There’s some weirdness going on there with the hood and the (incomplete) edging, but I decided I’m done with it, so I’m done.
You know what that means…according to my Diet, I get to start another project now! This is [...]
Tags: diet, dyeing, KnitPicks, mistakes, selfish, socks, wool, yarn
This weekend I finished reading Knitting: a novel by Anne Bartlett. The novel captivated me at the very beginning with its tactile descriptions of knitting. It made me want to try knitting lace (which I have) and to knit for myself. The book is a great story, and a fairly short read. I picked up [...]
Tags: book, mistakes, new knitters, rant, selfish
I am knitting my very first lace project. Lace is simple, right? All you need to know is how to knit, purl, yarnover, SSK, and K2tog. It should be easy!
Oh wait…I forgot count. You have to be able to count. This is where I went horribly, horribly wrong.
For my lace project, I chose the Interlude [...]
This weekend was very productive! I got in the mood to do some spring colors on Friday night. I overdyed some fluffy lime angora/wool into a variegated mix of spring greens and then divided a batch of lovely white lace weight silk/cashmere blend in half and did two skeins of salmon pink with burgundy flecks [...]
Tags: angora, cashmere, cooking, dyeing, mistakes, silk, spring, wool
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