Little Spawn passed out next to me on the day bed last night and stayed that way for a good hour, so I got to get a little spinning done. Yeah, yeah, I SHOULD have been folding diapers and making wipes solution...cleaning up the room a bit...changing the rabbit cage...doing the dishes...
Hush, you.
Instead I spent an hour in pure heaven spinning more of my paca/polwarth/silk/nylon blend. I was so euphoric about it, I even emailed the fiber artist who made it to ask if she was still up to making batts and if she either had more, or could whip me up something similar.
Like I have the cash for that.
Honestly, I'd sell ass on the street for more of this blend. Is that the fiber high talking? Might be.
Anyways, got a little spun on that.
I also added a handspun entry on Rav for my Phat Fiber samples. I have a BILLION of these things and only about half of them are spun so far - the rest are waiting patiently for me to touch them and get them on my smaller drop spindles. These are the perfect travel project and I am going back to work tomorrow, so I think more will be cropping up soon. It's also fun because I found a site where I can make free, professional looking, gorgeous collages of the fiber, yarn in progress, and finished yarns.
Check out the collective Rav entry and beautimous collage here.
Mmkay, I should be doing all those things I mentioned earlier and more now, while husbandcreature is watching dear Spawn.
Toodles!
-Wednesday
25 August 2013
22 August 2013
Knitting Group
Guess what!!
I finally got to go this evening to our local knitting group! It was SO NICE to get out of the house for a couple of hours.
I was half an hour late (for a two-hour get-together), so I thought folks would be there already, but I made two laps of the joint before someone else came in, and it turned out everyone else had been busy. We chatted for a bit anyways, she working on a nifty shifting blanket thingy, and me working on my turkish. I'm pretty proud of myself - I finished one of three batts I will be fitting on the spindle for this ply.
Here's the yarn I am making, and the fiber I am using for it.
I am really excited to make this a weekly thing!
I am also excited that Ravelry has introduced not only the handspun feature, which I just never stop being thrilled about, but also a fiber stash! I am in the process of photographing as much of my fiber as I can (only about 2/3 of it is at my house right now) and entering it in. It takes a long, but it's so exciting, beautiful, and nice to touch it all again (and to be able to flip through it all on one screen!).
Also nice to boast about. ;)
Gotta keep the post short, as little one is pretty fussy tonight. Catch y'all later!
-Wednesday
I finally got to go this evening to our local knitting group! It was SO NICE to get out of the house for a couple of hours.
I was half an hour late (for a two-hour get-together), so I thought folks would be there already, but I made two laps of the joint before someone else came in, and it turned out everyone else had been busy. We chatted for a bit anyways, she working on a nifty shifting blanket thingy, and me working on my turkish. I'm pretty proud of myself - I finished one of three batts I will be fitting on the spindle for this ply.
Here's the yarn I am making, and the fiber I am using for it.
I am really excited to make this a weekly thing!
I am also excited that Ravelry has introduced not only the handspun feature, which I just never stop being thrilled about, but also a fiber stash! I am in the process of photographing as much of my fiber as I can (only about 2/3 of it is at my house right now) and entering it in. It takes a long, but it's so exciting, beautiful, and nice to touch it all again (and to be able to flip through it all on one screen!).
Also nice to boast about. ;)
Gotta keep the post short, as little one is pretty fussy tonight. Catch y'all later!
-Wednesday
07 August 2013
Knotted Box Pillow
I finished everything on Sir's pillow today except the final edge and stuffing it. I'm going to use a pillow case filled with fiberfill, I think. It may wait a couple of days until I can find a pillow case I'm willing to part with and cut up/sew shut.
The link to the project is here.
That's a Ravelry link, so you'll need a Rav account to view it, I think. Blogging is tough for me without my own computer right now, so that might be the best way to share photos for the time being. Sorry!
The two panels were knit flat separately using some yarn from a cute little shop in Ames, Iowa. I used a knitted box stitch from NewStitchaDay on Youtube (check them out!). I thought the fastest way to link the panels was to turn them right side in and take a crochet hook and slip stitch all the way around (except that last side I need to use to stuff) using the ends from knitting. This was the quickest way and conserved the little yarn I'd left for myself, plus it won't come apart later if I knot it up at each end point. Since it's seamed on the wrong side, when I turn it right side out to stuff, those seams won't be as obvious or stick out.
Ooh, and the best part is that since it's a pillow, I don't have to sew in any ends! Woohoo!!
Okeydokey, I'll be back with more updates later!
The link to the project is here.
That's a Ravelry link, so you'll need a Rav account to view it, I think. Blogging is tough for me without my own computer right now, so that might be the best way to share photos for the time being. Sorry!
The two panels were knit flat separately using some yarn from a cute little shop in Ames, Iowa. I used a knitted box stitch from NewStitchaDay on Youtube (check them out!). I thought the fastest way to link the panels was to turn them right side in and take a crochet hook and slip stitch all the way around (except that last side I need to use to stuff) using the ends from knitting. This was the quickest way and conserved the little yarn I'd left for myself, plus it won't come apart later if I knot it up at each end point. Since it's seamed on the wrong side, when I turn it right side out to stuff, those seams won't be as obvious or stick out.
Ooh, and the best part is that since it's a pillow, I don't have to sew in any ends! Woohoo!!
Okeydokey, I'll be back with more updates later!
New Splurge
It's been a long time since I had money to spend, but for my birthday, my father gifted me a hundred dollar spending spree at anywhere I wanted. The rules were that I had to be able to stand for extended periods of time, and eat a meal without throwing it up.
Sounds like weird stipulations, I know, but when you consider that I had my first baby five days later, it kind of makes sense.
Well, two and a half months after that event, I finally felt like I had and needed the time to get out and about.
And you know perfectly well that I went to a fiber shop.
I went to WC Mercantile in Navasota, Texas. It's not quite the mom and pop one hopes for, but they always have something special. My haul:
A teeny adorably tiny kromski niddy noddy, a 5 foot ashford niddy noddy (which I only learned after opening is not actually a finished piece...oi), another bobbin for my Sonata Ginny, a WPI tool (no more marking inches on sharpies and pencils!), and two GORGEOUS rovings. One is 60-40 merino and bamboo that is basically the exact color of sherbet and makes me hungry just to look at. The other is good ol' BFL and is this beautiful brown and orange streaked thing that makes me think of fall, hay rides, pumpkins and pumpkin pie/lattes/everything, crisp autumn air, the whole amazing season.
If a fiber makes you smile that much, it's worth buying.
Well, with birthday money, anyways!
I think that's it? I could be forgetting something. But I don't think I am.
As amazing as those fibers are, I actually already have something on the wheel and all spindles. Right now I am working on a black and white braid of BFL (think Cruella - it's like one long black and one long white roving glued together). I've split it into fourths, and am spinning one fourth with lots of twist and very steady and thin. The other three fourths will be my first attempt at thick and thin, again slightly overspun, and I'm going to take a stab at a spiral plied yarn with the two. My last attempt was pretty frustrating (now I know why so many people use commercial cores), but hopefully I've tweaked my methods enough to not waste this fiber!
I'm also hoping to go to a knitting group (maybe to knit...maybe to spin...we'll see!) tomorrow for the first time in years. It may not work out this week, though, because husband will be out of town for the day and then very tired when he returns...so I may spend the day with little one instead. :/
Sorry for the overuse of parentheses and lack of proofreading! I have some killer allergies right now and Claritin doesn't do a darn thing for me. That, and the pharmacist just told me I'm DEFINITELY NOT EVER supposed to take Benadryl while breastfeeding, which I'm pretty sure is crap, but I'm putting up with the splitting headache and awful sinus blahness just in case...for now...
So bear with me! :)
Sounds like weird stipulations, I know, but when you consider that I had my first baby five days later, it kind of makes sense.
Well, two and a half months after that event, I finally felt like I had and needed the time to get out and about.
And you know perfectly well that I went to a fiber shop.
I went to WC Mercantile in Navasota, Texas. It's not quite the mom and pop one hopes for, but they always have something special. My haul:
A teeny adorably tiny kromski niddy noddy, a 5 foot ashford niddy noddy (which I only learned after opening is not actually a finished piece...oi), another bobbin for my Sonata Ginny, a WPI tool (no more marking inches on sharpies and pencils!), and two GORGEOUS rovings. One is 60-40 merino and bamboo that is basically the exact color of sherbet and makes me hungry just to look at. The other is good ol' BFL and is this beautiful brown and orange streaked thing that makes me think of fall, hay rides, pumpkins and pumpkin pie/lattes/everything, crisp autumn air, the whole amazing season.
If a fiber makes you smile that much, it's worth buying.
Well, with birthday money, anyways!
I think that's it? I could be forgetting something. But I don't think I am.
As amazing as those fibers are, I actually already have something on the wheel and all spindles. Right now I am working on a black and white braid of BFL (think Cruella - it's like one long black and one long white roving glued together). I've split it into fourths, and am spinning one fourth with lots of twist and very steady and thin. The other three fourths will be my first attempt at thick and thin, again slightly overspun, and I'm going to take a stab at a spiral plied yarn with the two. My last attempt was pretty frustrating (now I know why so many people use commercial cores), but hopefully I've tweaked my methods enough to not waste this fiber!
I'm also hoping to go to a knitting group (maybe to knit...maybe to spin...we'll see!) tomorrow for the first time in years. It may not work out this week, though, because husband will be out of town for the day and then very tired when he returns...so I may spend the day with little one instead. :/
Sorry for the overuse of parentheses and lack of proofreading! I have some killer allergies right now and Claritin doesn't do a darn thing for me. That, and the pharmacist just told me I'm DEFINITELY NOT EVER supposed to take Benadryl while breastfeeding, which I'm pretty sure is crap, but I'm putting up with the splitting headache and awful sinus blahness just in case...for now...
So bear with me! :)
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