Month: September 2005

  • duuuuuuude.

    The Waterloo County Knitter’s Fair.

    Crazy – even busier than last year, and the vendors were sure crowded in! I had a couple of readers come up to me (which was also crazy! since when do people come up to me!) while I myself was too shy to say hi to brainy alison.

    Without further ado, the booty.

    From Shelridge Farms, 5 skeins of worsted wool and 2 skeins of sock yarn.

    This picture shows the colour of the worsted weight (Soft Touch W4) way better.

    From Wellington Fibres, a bag of roving. A SUPER deal at $22 for 250 g – it’s 50% mohair, 50% polwarth leicester cross.

    From Four Seasons Knitting…koigu! I bought six skeins, but she only had 4 with her – so she’s mailing me the other two!

    Last but not least…RedBirdKnits. My first stop of the day, my most expensive. Woo!

    4 skeins red Silky Wool, 4 skeins grey Silky Tweed.

    Lorna’s Laces Wool Top, in “Watercolor” (I wonder if I’ll get sick of this colourway? my go with the flow socks are in this colourway too).

    And MISSING IN ACTION! 100 g of CORMO ROVING! Noooooooooo! I’m thinking it fell out of the bag while it was being stored under a table at the lettuce knit booth, and that megan (either one) picked it up for me. Otherwise I’m going to hope that Robyn might be able to help me out! (Pretty please?)

    Well, that’s all folks. I’m tired, time to go spin!

  • excited sleep

    Tomorrow’s the Kitchener/Waterloo knitters’ fair, and I’m going, along with lettuce knit and a bunch of knitterly friends. I’m excited – I kept up my yarn diet for all of August (yep, didn’t buy a yarny thing!) so I get to go nuts. I’ve got ideas and projects in my head and written down, so I know what I want to get and don’t forget anything.

    What do you do when you don’t have much to blog about? I like reading blogs that are updated often, every day or so. I started out doing that, but I’ve been slipping lately because I don’t feel I’ve done anything worth posting about. On that note, progress reports:

    Wrappy sweater: second sleeve complete, body in progress – I think I’ve decided what to do with the body, but we’ll see how that works out.
    Cozy: ends still need to be woven in; at least there’s only two!
    Cloud v-neck: almost done the body decreases, and it’ll be my car knitting for tomorrow.

    At least tomorrow I’ll have purchases to blog about!

  • wednesday

    Creative title, eh? I’m rather tired tonight, so a not-so-interesting title it is.

    Six months exactly after being cast on, Cozy was off the needles and on the wires.

    It took all my long wires (6) to block, and is about the same length or a bit longer than my bed. Luckily it dried quickly, so I could reclaim me floor! Modelled pic as soon as I can manage – it is so very comfy and soft, well worth the wait.

    I’ve finished one sleeve of the wrappy sweater and am about halfway done the second – just straight knitting to the cuff. The body’s still up in the air; I’m not sure what I’m going to do with it. Maybe the button thing, this time.

    Last night while reading “These Happy Golden Years” (eighth in the “Little House” series by Laura Ingalls Wilder….ah, comfort reading) I cast on for a v-neck sweater, henceforth known as “Cloud”, but managed to twist the cast-on the first time through.

    A rip, re-cast-on and a couple episodes of CSI has given me this:

    That’s into the second ball already, and I have 10 – I hope it’s enough. If not, 3/4 length sleeves it is!

    P.S. Thanks for all the compliments on Mon Petit Chou and er…my behind! I don’t know that I’ll wear them alllll that much, because they don’t fit under normal trousers and are a bit lumpy for under skirts, but hey, at least they only took 2 days!