Category: musings

  • a post about nothing much

    I don’t have much knitting or spinning progress to show today – everything’s just sort of plugging along. I started a super secret project for a gift, which is due by the last week of June. Gotta get that one done!

    At any rate, some spinning/yarn musings. Friday a wheel arrived at the store for Megan/store spinning. It was a Louet S10 double treadle.

    I used it for awhile, and although it took a bit of getting used to, it was really nice to use. Now, if I could afford the double treadle, I would definitely consider getting that wheel. But it’s kind of big, and their cheaper model is only single treadle.

    The wheels I really want? An Ashford Joy ($675 including taxes and shipping, plus accessories) or a Lendrum double treadle ($533, plus taxes, plus shipping, plus accessories)


    Yum. But the wheel I do believe I shall get:

    An Ashford Kiwi (about $300 including shipping and taxes, plus accessories). It’s affordable, double treadle, easy to get parts. I’m still hoping that my parents will pay for it as an early birthday present – and if they want to kick in a little more money, maybe I could get an Ashford Traveller.

    Enough about wheels. Something else – how about a yarn diet?

    I have realized that I have very much yarn and not much money – the funds, they are getting lower due to the fact that I’m working less because of school. D’oh. So, even though I really really really want some Knitpicks stuff, I’m going to have to hold off. I think the diet will be at least until the end of the month.

    Exceptions: yarn if needed to finish a project, and uh….the cotton going up at Elann on tuesday? Er, diet starts Tuesday, 12:15. Yeah, that’s it.

  • internal debate

    Specimen: Sideways Spencer.

    Problem:
    The sleeve is supposed to be worked until 16″ before casting on the body, which is two pattern repeats. Unfortunately, my row gauge is off and after 2 repeats, it’s more like 14″. So if I added another full repeat (the sleeve is supposed to end at the end of the chart) it would be far too long. I think I’ve decided now that I’ll just keep going forward, and add extra ribbing at the cuff or something – although thinking about it, if I did the sleeve longer and just added less ribbing, it might work. Hm.

    I think I’m too lazy to rip back. It’ll work out.

    In other news, Cozy:

    I’m not even halfway done. But it moves pretty fast when I work on it, so I’m just going to make a point of working on it more. I’m also making good progress on the boy’s socks – just about at the heel of the first.

    Oh, oh, oh – the Interweave Fall preview is up (wtf, summer isn’t even here yet): here. I like the Cable Cascade pullover, the cable and rib socks, the drop stitch cardigan, and the Union Square market sweater. Looks like a good issue – but great, just what I need, new projects to think about!

  • of buttons and things

    I went to Fabricland today in search of buttons for Ubernatural. Their buttons aren’t too great, but it’s pretty close to my house and I get 50% off buttons. I searched, silently lamenting the fact that the buttons I liked were too small.

    I don’t know what I was thinking, but the buttons I bought are way huge.

    I suppose the buttonholes grew and grew until in my mind, no button could conquer them!

    That’s a quarter next to the button. At any rate, I think the buttons will, in fact, work. I’ll make them work, dammit.

    In other news, I’ve started the edging on the wavy skirt:

    I love doing that edging! Love, love.

    Know what else I love?

    Cotton-ease…

    However, I don’t like paying $20 in duty and taxes to get said cotton-ease (just the ones in the bags; also, there’s a lot more of those top two colours, I just didn’t want to put in them in the picture).

    Oh oh oh, one more picture, a rather random one:

    Addi Turbos (fresh out of hot water to soften the cords for the Magic Loop class I’m teaching tomorrow) hanging out with my guitar. Cool.