Well, by bobbin I mean a dowel from a home improvement store, that has been cut into pieces, sanded, and rubbed with Paste Wax.
The lazy kate is a decorative shoebox bought from Joanne's.
Doesn't match this yarn, but oh well.
Tuesday, June 10, 2008
Lazy Kate
Here is my lazy kate and bobbin.
Well, by bobbin I mean a dowel from a home improvement store, that has been cut into pieces, sanded, and rubbed with Paste Wax.
The lazy kate is a decorative shoebox bought from Joanne's.
Doesn't match this yarn, but oh well.
Well, by bobbin I mean a dowel from a home improvement store, that has been cut into pieces, sanded, and rubbed with Paste Wax.
The lazy kate is a decorative shoebox bought from Joanne's.
Doesn't match this yarn, but oh well.
Thursday, June 5, 2008
First Steps in Spinning
Not much today, just pictures.
On Monday, I took my predrafted fiber and turned it into a single ply.
It's pretty thick and thin.
On Monday, I took my predrafted fiber and turned it into a single ply.
It's pretty thick and thin.
Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Pre-Drafting...
Sunday evening, after getting home from the graduation, I finally let myself mess with the fiber. I'd had the roving and spindle since Wednesday, but I was too busy to sit down and start.
I got started with the help of Maggie Casey's Start Spinning and Megan LaCore's drafting video.
This is the roving before drafting
all spread out
This is the one step that I hadn't picked up on until the video
splitting the roving into strips. At first I was trying to draft the entire roving, and it was almost impossible. I got it all sorted out and made some pretty little birds nests.
Gorgeous!
Tomorrow: some actual spinning!
I got started with the help of Maggie Casey's Start Spinning and Megan LaCore's drafting video.
This is the roving before drafting
all spread out
This is the one step that I hadn't picked up on until the video
splitting the roving into strips. At first I was trying to draft the entire roving, and it was almost impossible. I got it all sorted out and made some pretty little birds nests.
Gorgeous!
Tomorrow: some actual spinning!
Monday, June 2, 2008
Gone to the Dark Side
Spinning!?!?
I can no longer resist the urge to spin.
Blame Meghan from the Stitch It Podcast and Brooklyn Tweed. After fighting this bug for a few months, it's no longer possible to resist.
So last week I ordered this
my very first drop spindle.
It's workable, but not great. The Etsy vendor isn't a spinner, and it isn't well balanced. The main benefit is that it can be either a top whorl or bottom whorl spindle.
I also went on a fiber binge. The first purchase to arrive was this little number from tehandehness on etsy.
This is "Grizzly", a domestic wool blend. It is very pretty, and the colors are so me. It's a soft muted pink, with not-too-bright teal and brown. And it's gonna become my first handspun EVAR.
I don't plan on using this yarn as anything but a decoration. It will be thick and thin and slubby, but when plied it will be very very pretty.
Over the next two weeks I want to try and post every day (hah!) with my progress.
Back Home
Last weekend I went back home for my little sister's graduation. I knit a grand total of 3 stitches (one row of a finger tip for my Dad's gloves). We were too busy doing stuff.
Like taking ATM-surveillance-quality photos of ourselves in the fish-eye lens of the side view mirror of an AT&T truck
and watching my youngest sis lead the pledge at her graduation.
What would they have done if she didn't show? Find someone else who knows the pledge? I jest. We're proud of her, there were a lot of people there, and she did great.
I can no longer resist the urge to spin.
Blame Meghan from the Stitch It Podcast and Brooklyn Tweed. After fighting this bug for a few months, it's no longer possible to resist.
So last week I ordered this
my very first drop spindle.
It's workable, but not great. The Etsy vendor isn't a spinner, and it isn't well balanced. The main benefit is that it can be either a top whorl or bottom whorl spindle.
I also went on a fiber binge. The first purchase to arrive was this little number from tehandehness on etsy.
This is "Grizzly", a domestic wool blend. It is very pretty, and the colors are so me. It's a soft muted pink, with not-too-bright teal and brown. And it's gonna become my first handspun EVAR.
I don't plan on using this yarn as anything but a decoration. It will be thick and thin and slubby, but when plied it will be very very pretty.
Over the next two weeks I want to try and post every day (hah!) with my progress.
Back Home
Last weekend I went back home for my little sister's graduation. I knit a grand total of 3 stitches (one row of a finger tip for my Dad's gloves). We were too busy doing stuff.
Like taking ATM-surveillance-quality photos of ourselves in the fish-eye lens of the side view mirror of an AT&T truck
and watching my youngest sis lead the pledge at her graduation.
What would they have done if she didn't show? Find someone else who knows the pledge? I jest. We're proud of her, there were a lot of people there, and she did great.
Sunday, May 25, 2008
Busy Busy Busy
Actuarial exam season has come and gone again, hence the long absence. That and the addictiveness of Ravelry.
Things have also been pretty busy around here.
There's been a field trip
and a yarn swap
Indy turned 2, and we celebrated by giving him a plate of apple and banana, his two favorite foods
Somehow throughout all of this I was able to get some crafts done.
Indy helped by modeling a baby bib.
I made a few burp cloths and some baby booties because of a recent population explosion among people around me.
(notice the dining room table covered with study materials)
and a crocheted finished object
and omg, stop the presses, I broke out the sewing machine and have two FO's to show for it!
a practice project bag for me
and a project bag for Jen's birthday.
but most of my time over the past three months has been spent with this
thats 11.4 pounds of study materials, and that's not all I used
There is hope, since I'm going to spend the next few weeks with this
and here
Things have also been pretty busy around here.
There's been a field trip
and a yarn swap
Indy turned 2, and we celebrated by giving him a plate of apple and banana, his two favorite foods
Somehow throughout all of this I was able to get some crafts done.
Indy helped by modeling a baby bib.
I made a few burp cloths and some baby booties because of a recent population explosion among people around me.
(notice the dining room table covered with study materials)
and a crocheted finished object
and omg, stop the presses, I broke out the sewing machine and have two FO's to show for it!
a practice project bag for me
and a project bag for Jen's birthday.
but most of my time over the past three months has been spent with this
thats 11.4 pounds of study materials, and that's not all I used
There is hope, since I'm going to spend the next few weeks with this
and here
Saturday, April 5, 2008
Super Secret Group Project #2 - D's Baby Blanket
Here is Super Secret Group Project #2:
and the other side
It's a baby blanket for Deborah, a member of our group. A bunch of people from our group did individual squares of all different stitch patterns and colors. Most of the squares were knitted, and there was one crocheted square.
We planned on putting together the blanket at one of our meetings, because we didn't think she'd be there. We thought she wouldn't be able to make it, but she showed up!
It was good and bad. Good because we had a chance to get the blanket to her that night, bad because instead of a seaming party, we had a seaming work camp.
So we laid out all of our squares on the table at Panera.
And started seaming. We got most of it done, but at the end of the night, it was still incomplete, and we hadn't even started the border. So I took it home and finished seaming it up.
Then gave it a bath (you can see the vinegar and dish soap).
And wet blocked it.
After it was dry, I crocheted on a border and lightly steam ironed it.
It turned out as a beautiful, cuddly blanket for the new arrival!
and the other side
It's a baby blanket for Deborah, a member of our group. A bunch of people from our group did individual squares of all different stitch patterns and colors. Most of the squares were knitted, and there was one crocheted square.
We planned on putting together the blanket at one of our meetings, because we didn't think she'd be there. We thought she wouldn't be able to make it, but she showed up!
It was good and bad. Good because we had a chance to get the blanket to her that night, bad because instead of a seaming party, we had a seaming work camp.
So we laid out all of our squares on the table at Panera.
And started seaming. We got most of it done, but at the end of the night, it was still incomplete, and we hadn't even started the border. So I took it home and finished seaming it up.
Then gave it a bath (you can see the vinegar and dish soap).
And wet blocked it.
After it was dry, I crocheted on a border and lightly steam ironed it.
It turned out as a beautiful, cuddly blanket for the new arrival!
Sunday, March 16, 2008
Super Secret Group Project #1 - Run Jodi Run
So, I'm really far behind in my blogging, because this Super Secret Group Project #1 listed here was made and gifted in February, and I've really wanted to share it since. This is just one more reason why our knitting circle is teh roxor.
All this icord was made by the group (hand knit, a little machine knit, and crochet). What could it be for?
Indy wonders why I've once again knit something taller than I am.
Well, it's to make these:
Wait, that doesn't make much sense. Donna, Brenda and Susan, let's try it again!
There we go.
These signs are for Jodi (shown seated)
She ran her first marathon. And to show our support we marathon knitted icord to make some signs which Brenda put them together for us. Jodi thought we were joking when we said we'd be there cheering her on with big signs, and she certainly didn't know we would knit them!
They got a few comments at the race, and they made Jodi do a double take. She saw us, high-fived Donna, who was taking pictures, and kept running. Then, when she was about fifty feet past us she turned around and starting pointing wildly at the signs. We all laughed and told her to keep going, she was doing great, we'd talk about it later.
At our next meeting, we all signed the signs and gave them to Jodi. And she's been displaying them in her house ever since!
And yes, since this is Super Secret Group Project #1, there is a #2. It's in the works right now, and will hopefully be complete and gifted soon. But probably blogged about much later...
All this icord was made by the group (hand knit, a little machine knit, and crochet). What could it be for?
Indy wonders why I've once again knit something taller than I am.
Well, it's to make these:
Wait, that doesn't make much sense. Donna, Brenda and Susan, let's try it again!
There we go.
These signs are for Jodi (shown seated)
She ran her first marathon. And to show our support we marathon knitted icord to make some signs which Brenda put them together for us. Jodi thought we were joking when we said we'd be there cheering her on with big signs, and she certainly didn't know we would knit them!
They got a few comments at the race, and they made Jodi do a double take. She saw us, high-fived Donna, who was taking pictures, and kept running. Then, when she was about fifty feet past us she turned around and starting pointing wildly at the signs. We all laughed and told her to keep going, she was doing great, we'd talk about it later.
At our next meeting, we all signed the signs and gave them to Jodi. And she's been displaying them in her house ever since!
And yes, since this is Super Secret Group Project #1, there is a #2. It's in the works right now, and will hopefully be complete and gifted soon. But probably blogged about much later...
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