Category: knitting

  • a new obsession

    Thanks for all the great comments on my herringbone skirt! I think it’s quite spiffy, myself : )

    You know how when you KNOW you should be working on something, it’s terribly easy to get distracted by something else new and shiny?

    I certainly do…

    seraphim shawl

    I started a Seraphim Shawl last week at snb, and it just rocks. Right now it’s just soothing stockinette, but the kind where you’re actually doing something (increasing) and seeing progress rather fast!

    I’m using Socks that Rock Lightweight in “obsidian”, which I bought at the store awhile back, and 3.75 mm Addi Lace needles. It’s fantastic. And until I get up to the chart bit, extremely portable and easy to pick up and put down – like socks are for me, most of the time.

  • belly party

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    Following a rather mad dash to the finishing line (involving me spending pretty much an entire week knitting squares to fill in the gaps) the ladies of the lettuce knit SnB presented our three preggers ladies with blankets!

    Jen, Joyce, and Mel got heaps of presents and lots of handknits, obviously! I, being the genuis that I am, forgot to photograph my finished wee sweaters before I gifted them, so perhaps the ladies would be so kind as to send me something to post?

    (more photo on my flickr.)

    The rush of blanket finishing plus working and all that left little time for other fibrey pursuits, but I finally brought my wheel home from the store (it had been living there for wheel classes for the last six weeks or so) and have been slowly returning to the spinning. If I’m going to make it to Rhinebeck, I’d better spin up at least part of all that fibre I bought last year!

    The crocheted red skirt (herringbone skirt from Knitscene) is thisclose to being done – definitely time for an FO around here! In the meanwhile, I’ve been playing with another toy this week…

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    That pile of noodles was actually just test flour-water dough to clean out the machine – we made tortellini filled with ricotta and basil, with fresh homemade tomato sauce with tomatoes from the garden, of course! Does anyone know where I can buy or borrow a pressure canner from? It would be oh so much faster than the boiling water canner once I start canning (I’m currently gearing up for it, the tomatoes are coming in pretty fast).

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  • the promise of new knits

    I love winding yarn. Transforming a skein into the ready-to-knit position, seeing how the colours blend, and having a stackable item afterwards! I only wind when I’m ready (or at least almost ready) to use the yarn, and I just love all the promise of new projects that they hold.

    Euroflax linen:
    euroflax linen

    Socks that Rock mediumweight in Rose Quartz:
    STR rose quartz

    Raggedy Cotton that I dyed at the store:
    dyed raggedy cotton

    Isn’t it cool? I’m not much into novelty-type yarns, but this one is 100% cotton (and of course, dyed by me). I’ve got two big skeins, 225 g each. We’ll see if my project idea works out…hopefully I’ll be able to start soon, but I have so very many other things to do and knit at the moment!