Author: Laura

  • week of doom

    Three exams in the next four days…

    I made a little yarn on the drop spindle – this is actually my second attempt (we won’t talk about the first attempt). Wayyy overtwisted, but I can work on that. And if someone wanted to give me a little lesson on Wednesday night…well, I don’t have any fiber or any time to buy fiber, so bring me some!

    (I have, however, ordered quite a bit of roving off eBay. I blame the stress.)

    Knitting? What knitting?

    (They think they’re being punished because they’re shoved in a corner with no attention.)

  • spent

    I ran into Emma on my way to the Frolic, at Eglinton Station. After a brief foray into a rather scary religious conference (we were a bit lost) we managed to find our way.

    Clockwise from the spindle: Drop spindle kit from redbirdknits, Rowan All Seasons Cotton (12 skeins), HandMaiden 2-ply silk/cashmere, South West Trading Company Bamboo (2 skeins), and Regia Mini-Ringel (2 skeins).

    Plans? Well, learn to spin, knit a mother’s day scarf for my mum in the silk/cashmere, the ASC is for Asana and another tank top, bamboo for a tank top (see a pattern here?) and the Regia was half price!

    I also got these:

    Blocking wires!

    Overall, it was a lot of fun. Lots of beautiful yarn – the HandMaiden stuff especially! I looooved the 4ply silk, but couldn’t justify it – I already ended up borrowing money from other people as it was. Note to self: bring more cash, a lot of the vendors don’t take MasterCard.

    Unfortunately I didn’t get what I really needed – some needles. Ah well, those are easy enough to come by. I almost bought a swift and winder, but…I really wanted that ASC instead. I always have access to the ones at the store, and the swift wasn’t all that nice – it was a bit flimsy, unfinished feeling. I might just buy a winder from the store.

    Shelridge Farm’s wool was so nice! I’ll definitely buy some in the fall at KW when I’ve got fall/winter sweaters planned. There wasn’t too much cotton, which I was really looking for (although there were bags of Jo Sharp Desert Garden and such) and as you can see, a lot of what I bought was non-wool (except the sock yarn).

    Okay! So that’s it. Yarn hiatus for a while, except that Cotton Fleece I asked Megan to order for me – and needles aren’t yarn, right?

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  • foreplay

    Yep, I’m warming up for the knitgasm (as Kelly puts it) tomorrow by purchasing some yarn. Unfortunately I don’t have a picture, but it’s Brown Sheep Cotton Fleece in “Candy Apple”, 5 skeins of it (I returned the Fleece Artist I bought a while ago, so I didn’t pay out much more money). It shall most likely become a skirt and possibly a tank top as well.

    What do I need tomorrow? Well, need is relative, of course. I could definitely use some 2 mm (US 0) sock needles. (As an aside, I was looking at Surina needles last night – I wonder how the tips are. I need me pointy tips!) I’m also on the lookout for a cotton or maybe silk that I can use to make Branching Out for my mom, for mother’s day. Although she did express interest in the mini-charlotte I had made for my aunt for Christmas. Either way, she won’t wear wool so cotton or silk it is. And then of course there’s just the stashing.

    Stay tuned for the thrilling climax tomorrow – with pictures! Naughty.