Okay, Class. Put down your iPods, stop passing text messages, take your seats, and pay attention.
THIS is a sample of Navy Blue.
Say it with me. Nay-vee Bloo.
And THIS is a sample of Chestnut.
Say it with me. Chest Nut.
Do they look the same or different?
Which leads into my foible of the day.
There is NO clear [...]
Danielle asked (regarding my latest socks):
Love the socks, which color are you using for them?
Well, that’s what happens with leftover dyes! I’m not using one of the “official” colorways, but the jumbly mix of leftover dyes from a batch of several regular orders. Clearly they were two different colorways, but the funny thing [...]
Yesterday I dyed 8 hanks, on order. Of those 8, only ….
well, wait. You know I dye on order. I have pictures of my recipes, showing how the recipe is supposed to turn out. Like ordering off a picture menu, everyone knows the plate coming out of [...]
Recently, I posted some lonely languishing yarns dyed many months ago, including this collection of the one-time-only Horizon colorway in the Down Home Art Yarns, 100% wool in a worsted weight.
It remained in its clear plastic bin for oh-so-very-long, peering through the plastic at me, reminding me of its presence. It had been posted on [...]
Yesterday I was tooling around the Web to see who was linking to me (either my main page or my blog), and came across a link to someone I’d not heard of. And there was a discussion of one thing, with a link to my Noro Silk Garden shawl as an example. OOPS…. that wasn’t [...]
So last night I got the latest order of sock yarns, and today I made ready to dye the most recent orders.
In particular I was doing a couple of the “Go Ireland” colorway:
A goodly shamrock green and a bold assertive orange blend (of my own making). I measured my acid, measured my dye powders, added [...]
If you could name the MOST USEFUL bit of knitterly information, what would it be?
Perhaps a MathMagic stitch gauge chart? (Like if you get 4.5 stitches per inch, how many stitches do you need for a 24″ inch sweater back?)
Or a generic sock pattern with all the main instructions, and you just fill in the [...]
Emptying out the overstock bins, and in came a box of NEW YARNS ready for dyeing. Whee!
(which means tomorrow I will be dyeing. How UTTERLY cool!)
I learned recently that March is Crochet Awareness Month. So, your mission (should you accept it) is to find new and glorious ways to use Knitivity Yarns IN CROCHET! [...]
I just got off the phone with one of my boys. He said he has two pairs of sock blocker prototypes, one finished in plain coat and one in a golden oak finish. He’ll be bringing those by in a few days or over the weekend, so I can photograph them and start discussing marketing [...]
Okay, after WAY TOO MUCH STRESS, the Specials Page has been updated, mostly adding the goofs and extras from the last month or so. The regular sock yarn price is $22.95. All of today’s offerings are discounted to $20.95 (and a couple are even lower). For the most part there is nothing wrong with the [...]
Damn stupid-ass @#$(@)( digital camera!
I’ve tried THREE FUCKING SETS OF PICTURES of my Sales yarns and not a goddamned one of these sets has turned out. goddamit. shit!
Tonight is the Oscar Awards show.
I don’t know if I have seen ANY of the movies up for an Oscar. I only just this week received (but haven’t watched yet) Al Gore’s An Inconvenient Truth, his documentary on Global Warming. Sorta preaching to the choir here (to me, I mean), since I already know global [...]
Okay, I feel silly. Or stupid. Or whatever.
Here’s how you can do it too. Take 6 balls of sock yarn, 100 grams each. Cast on 101 stitches, #4 on the tension dial of your LK-150, and using the 3×1 needle selector tool, do a 6 row alternating tuck stitch, [...]
Robby D. sent me a couple pictures of socks she’s recently completed. I’m SOOO jealous– my socks are fairly straightforward and everyone else does cool patterns. Oh yeah, and other people have time to knit socks!
Anyway, here ya go:
The top is her “Monkey Mouse Socks”, done in the Rodentia colorway. [...]
Yep, I’m still here. I shipped out the last of the backlog today. <*whew*>
I’ve had a few really bad days with the head thingie. Not quite as bad today, but it’s still there, reminding me now and again. Grrrr.
This is what I did yesterday:
Using up those six balls of Opal self-striping yarns. As of [...]
This afternoon, about 3 hours ago, I dyed the last hank of yarn that has been ordered (not counting the one custom non-sock yarn dye job but that’s a separate category). Now all I gotta do is get everything dried and packed and shipped, and every order that has come in will be totally caught [...]
I have yarns to dye, right?
I put them into their pre-dye soak, y’know?
And then I lay them out ever-so-carefully on the plastic, okay?
And then I check my recipe and put “this color” here, and some of “that color” there.
Oh, and you don’t wanna let ‘em smooshy all together, so I did what Charlotte suggested, tying [...]
Okay, that was corny.
Ugly crappy disgusting worthless putrid poopoo-caca day outdoors.
But INdoors… Woo-hoo!!! All caught up to current dye jobs, EXCEPT the last 10 Aunt Gails which are ready to dye first thing in the morning. There was a custom order I expected to do today, but it didn’t get done, so that will [...]
I was planning to bundle up all the roses (and other flowers) that were sent to me by all y’all for Valentine’s Day, to use for dye.
Y’see, you first bundle your cut flowers by the stems and hang them upside down to dry in the open air. Right side up they just sort of [...]
The other day I commented on some incredibly cute drop spindles to the creator thereof, and inquired about a swap (yarn for a spindle). Still waiting to hear back from her, but I thought I’d throw the idea out for other crafty people as well.
Last year I swapped some sock yarn for some hand-made soap [...]
