Category: tops

  • she sews

    I finished this cute summery skirt.

    It’s 100% cotton. It’s unlined, so it’s very light and swingy! It was a pain in the ass though…ah well, I’ll know for next time – follow logic and not the pattern.

    I’ve also been knitting – doing the waist decreases on Soleil:

    Spinning, too – I started spinning up the dyed Wensleydale top. I think I might finally have gotten the drafting thing a little better, because this is quite a bit thinner and a bit more consistent than what I was getting before.

    Last but not least, I finished my first bag for sale!

    Both inner and outer material are 100% cotton, preshrunk. Outside a black and white fish print, inside purple check. The straps are 100% acrylic, but are flexible and soft like cotton. In the second pic, the bag’s holding 3 skeins 1 balls of yarn and isn’t even half full! Dimensions are approx 11″ x 4″ x 10″. Special intro price is $25 USD or $32 CDN which includes shipping! Email me if you’re interested – I take Paypal (balance transfer only) or personal check.

    I’ll be setting up a temporary page soon for this stuff, and I’m trying to get my new website up and running too! I’d better get to work!

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  • in craft up to my ears

    I’ve got so many things to do, and very many of them are crafty which makes me happy! Of course, there’s still that pesky exam next week, but…we won’t talk about that (don’t worry, I’ve got my schedule all set up and will be studying muchly – this exam’s worth 50%!).

    I received a Global Priority Mail box! It contained some yummy fiber.

    The white is a pound of Corriedale top which I’m planning to dye with Kool-aid when I have some time, and the light blue is Ingeo – corn fiber! It’s cooool, but I don’t want to mess it up so it’ll probably wait around for a little bit while I, you know, learn to spin better.

    I also got this handpainted Wensleydale top.

    As for the knitting, I seem to have been bitten by a bout of startitis. The Phildar Jacket looks like this…

    But I’ve started these:

    Soleil, out of the Madil All Seasons (I love lace!)…

    …and a cardigan out of black Cotton-Ease (I love you Cotton-ease!). It’s a raglan with kangaroo pockets and – my favourite part – both a knit-in hem at the bottom and a facing for the zipper at the front edges.

    So you can see I’ve got quite a few things to keep me busy – I’m also working on a springy skirt for myself, as well as bags to put up for sale. Also, I’m going to redesign and launch my own domain which will house the blog plus a little webshop – if anyone wants to offer their coding expertise, I would be ever so grateful! Oh, and I got a *great* deal on registering the domain, server space, etc. – less than $10 for a year! Email me if you’re interested in the deets.

    Happy Monday!

  • freee…..for the moment

    I’m so happy that my next exam isn’t for two whole weeks that I’m taking the weekend off schoolwork to have fun and hopefully knit and sew up a storm. I’ll start studying again on Monday, I swear…

    Anyway, first up’s the spinning update. I bought one bigass spindle.

    It’s an Ashford, and the whorl is about 3.5″ in diameter – I think that qualifies as bigass. I don’t know how much it weighs or anything else, but I can get quite a bit of worsted-weight or slightly lighter (not too light – it’s rather heavy, of course) onto it. It spins quite well, and now that I’ve started doing a bit of off-the-leg spinning it goes for a good while.

    I made a center pull ball on a toilet roll (I think I need a noste. Or a niddy noste…).

    Then I made my first two-ply! Of course it’s rather inconsistent, but I love it. And it’s a fairly decent amount, so I think I’m gonna try and do up the rest of this green corriedale the same and see if’n I have enough to make something with.

    I er….bought some more yarn. Just a little, and it was $4.20 per ball.

    It’s Madil “All Seasons”, 50% cotton 50% viscose, in a lovely rose, and ridiculously soft. I’m going to make Soleil with it, probably rather soon because I want a fairly instant-gratification project, and tanks are like that.

    Oh, and the Phildar Jacket is now moving along nicely.

    The vertical buttonholes are kind of cool, but they’re also somewhat messy. I hope I can clean them up a bit afterward. This front should go along quickly tonight and I’ll probably get started on the second one as well – there’s a new CSI and ER, so that’s lots of knitting time!

    Ack! No more Cotton-ease? Nooooo! Now I need to try and order some while it’s still floating around but…but…the money…oh well. It’s one of my favourite yarns, what can I say? I guess this means I need to buy some, NOW. Leslie, Joyce, you guys want any?

    This weekend I want to get some sewing done as well, probably a skirt and/or try to finish up the dress I started last year (it stalled when I had to go buy a zipper). Just to test the waters, would any of you guys be interested in buying bags/purses if I started making them? I usually do a tote-bag style, or messenger, big enough to hold your knitting, with funky fabrics. I’ll put up some pics soon. I don’t think they’d be very expensive (maybe $25-$50 CDN) and would be easy to ship too. Ideas, ideas.