Category: musings

  • with the promise of more doughnuts to come

    Oy. The days, they pass, and I don’t get nearly enough done. A quick update on things…no photos today.

    School:
    Well. Have I mentioned that the week following Rhinebeck I have three midterms and a project due? Yeah. Gotta get on that. School’s freaking me out, man. Seriously.

    Spinning:
    I left the wheel at the store this week, and probably will do the same this upcoming week – I’ve been teaching wheel classes, and it’s not so fun to be hauling the Lendrum around on the TTC – even with the case and everything. It’s good to have removed a distraction, but I still need to spin up a colour or two for my Rhinebeck sweater! The green I dyed isn’t quite turning out how I wanted, so I’m not sure how it’ll compliment the other colours I’ve done. I’m definitely going to be spinning up some mustard yellow though, hopefully next Wednesday and Thursday.

    Knitting:
    I’m almost done the body on the Rhinebeck sweater (up to the armholes), then it’s onto the sleeves. I’ve been working on figuring out what colourwork to do, but I really need to break out the pencil crayons and graph paper. It’s going really well though, and I think the sleeves will go fast. Yay handspun.

    I’m up to the heel on a purple Trekking sock, so it’s almost (as soon as I get some sunlight) short row tutorial time. I promise.

    Other Current Knitting:
    – Lucy II
    – 2 pairs of socks (handspun and Trekking)
    – black alpaca sweater (booooring)
    – grey cabled cardi from Vogue – two sleeves done, cast on for the back…I really need this sweater to wear!

    Oh, I want to knit so many nice things. Alas…the time, I must learn how to bend it. I’ll be back soon. With pictures!

  • warning: blurry photos ahead.

    Gahhhhh. Normally I use an old Olympus digital camera – 2.1 MP, no manual features, sloooow. But the photos come out fine, generally pretty clear and good colour. I’ve used another camera, a Sony Cybershot (DSC-T1) a few times before and had it be fine too. But lately all I can seem to get with it is shots like this:

    It wasn’t even really low light, just not super sunny. I took shot after shot, holding my breath when I took the photo, resting my hands on my chair’s arm, etc. Very irritating. I think I’ll go back to my Olympus, thanks – unless someone can help me with this particular problem? It doesn’t even have a tripod mount.

    Grey sleeves – Elann Highland Chunky. Super speedy – the second sleeve is already done (and that photo was taken earlier today). For a cardigan.

    Blurry black alpaca starting to look like a sweater. Boring but a good standby knit (not that I really need more things to work on).

    Last weekend I went to Goodwill in search of another crockpot – I found this:

    But no actual crockpot! I’m being taunted.

    Let’s see, what else is up…I desperately want to buy yarn. Dude, it’s not like I need more! Although I keep saying to myself that I don’t have much worsted weight wool at all (really, I only have one sweater’s worth, and it’s got a project attached to it) so I should really get some stuff for design playing. Yeah, that’s it.

    I’ve also been thinking about the whole holiday pressie situation, and I think I know what I want to do (just a few bigger things). Buy the yarn now? That might lead to adding a few more skeins for myself…thus breaking the yarn diet. Hmmmm. Will have to think about this more.

  • cool beans

    Check out the awesome socks Lori at Yarnbeans made with a skein of my handspun!
    Things:

    I can’t believe it – it’s not even midnight and I’m super duper tired. May have something to do with a stressful day, with more on the way. I still have lots of reading to do tonight though…

    I do not think I will have enough yarn to complete the Sienna cardigan, judging by how much yarn the back has gobbled up. Time for a rip and re-think.

    Knitpicks Gloss for Serrano – definitely worth swatching out; it’ll be on the heavier side (about 18 WPI versus Anne’s 21) but I think it could really work.

    Feeling almost lost with knitting projects now that commissioned stuff is done for the time being. Almost. I keep feeling like I had this whole big list and now I can’t remember anything that was on it.

    I am contemplating as to which skein of handspun to use for the facings of the Sunrise Circle Jacket. I don’t think I have the right one; I’ll have to spin something up. Damn.

    I have two so so so close to being done sweaters that’ve just been sitting for awhile. Must. Finish. Maybe this weekend.

    Off to swatch, knit, and read. Good thing this textbook opens out flat!

    Edited to make this a longer post, get my rambly thoughts out, and of course procrastinate:

    Current Projects
    – black alpaca top-down pulli (just past the sleeve split)
    – sienna (rip)
    – plain trekking socks
    – handspun socks
    – blueberry greek pulli (just needs some seaming and blocking)
    – VBC (damn buttons; i’m tempted to sew the front opening shut)

    Upcoming projects
    – er – Rhinebeck sweater?
    – sienna reincarnated
    – wanderlust hoodie from IK with Araucania Nature Wool Chunky
    – #19 “Cabled Cardigan” from VK in Elann Highland Chunky (actually…maybe I’ll start this now)
    – a knitty sweater
    – another Lucy
    – dare I say…Christmas knitting?

    Oh, and I’ve got yarn for a cashmere tweed sweater, and a Polwarth sweater (i’m thinking cables, although I don’t have very much yarn), and a Polwarth/Silk shawl, and lots and lots of socks…

    Dang. That’s one big list. And what about when the winter magazines hit the stands?!

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