And worth every step!
I was getting all my stuff together, acting like I was going to dye a bunch today. Uh-huh. Yeah, right.
No, really, I was.
Oh, but in order to dye, I need to have plastic wrap to hold the yarn in the steamer. And y’member last week I was going to go get plastic [...]
this morning I had to do a load of wash and hang it on the line.
I’ve had my clothes pins in a little pan that would ride in the clothes basket out and back.
But thanks to a useful tip on Ravelry, which I personalized and made my own, I now have a clothes pin bucket:
And [...]
Y’member near the first of the month I was telling you about a mysterious stinky problem in the workroom? And then the landlady came and found a problem with the vent ducts underneath, and the stinky sorta went away?
Well, it’s been haunting me again for the last week or so. Actually, it never totally went [...]
LizzieK8 just asked:
Is the nipple effect being caused by decreasing too much too often?
Actually, if my math serves me correctly, the protruding nipple effect comes from a decrease and then NOT decreasing soon enough, so that a tube is formed, and then decreasing again to flatten the tip. So, let’s say you are decreasing 8 [...]
<*whew*> I survived the day with the Grandkids!
I didn’t do so well with my Bond. I started a new project for the kids to work on. Well, dammit, the stupid idiotic friggin’ machine simply REFUSED to work. I spent an hour just getting it to work, and only made 18 rows of progress. Stitches kept [...]
Okay, so I’ve sent out as many ads/notices as I can about the end-of-June discounts. I need to have about $500 in sales each week in order to break even on household expenses AND restock my yarns and dyes and stuff… Grrrrr…
And I keep forgetting to update the front page of the Web site, so [...]
I just posted the pattern for the Loopy Cap over on the Patterns page.
Okay…. it only took a few hours (due to breaktimes), but here’s a prototype. Whattaya think?
it looks a little goofy on that headshape. There’s a yellow innerfacing under the picot-edged hem. And up at the top I did one decrease round (going from 96 to 48), put in 12 [...]
Candi asks:
Are you using sock weight yarn or worsted for your hand knit hats?
All of the hats in the Charity Hat series are worsted weight, and so far just using up gobs and gobs of leftovers from my personal stash — and that is for two reasons: first, it is helping me drastically [...]
Another hat done. This is the teal and sherbet colors I showed you a couple days ago.
and the crown:
I am particularly excited by the way the colors swirl around in a pattern MUCH more interesting than the appear in the original ball of yarn. Probably because of the teal contrasting against it, huh?
And I would [...]
Well, okay, so it dried (and I didn’t re-measure the hank length). Here’s those two over-dyed red hanks:
As I mentioned it was originally a red and white yarn, supposed to be for a Red Sox fan (I’ll do that one over for her, of course), and then because it was sooo NOT the right way, [...]
Weird, huh?
Yesterday I had some orders to dye. I wound off equal sized hanks, eight to be exact, all on the same skein winder. They are all dyed in the same way at the same (relative) time. There were six You Nork Mets, and two that were a custom order for a Red Sox fan. [...]
If I knew what I was doing, I could probably get a job somewhere!
Yeah, yeah, I know…. I already HAVE a job, but sometimes I feel like SUCH A DOOFUS!!!!
This afternoon, I went to the machine and got started working up a different version of the machine hat pattern. It’s a slip stitch pattern, basically [...]
This morning while chatting on Ravelry, I was free-flowing with some random thoughts, and I thought (some of) you might enjoy this little piece I wrote, rather off the cuff:
Tantric Knitting – practicing the art of Kama Knitra
Two hearts entwined shall beat as one
from crack of dawn till set of sun.
With steady gaze they purl [...]
One of my pattern testers just completed her version of the machine-knit Charity Hat. Isn’t it a cool combination of colors?
Thanks to Tracy and Barbara for their testing expertise on the machine-knitted version, making sure I was as clear as I could be with the written instructions. As I mentioned on one of the lists, [...]
LizzieK8 just gave a nudge in her blog over to what Franklin had to say about we knitters (and other crafty folk). What struck me is that he mentioned there are more of us than there are golfers in the U.S., but we of the domestic arts aren’t featured much in the media. Hmph.
It’s worth [...]
Okay, here’s the one I started last night:
I really REALLY like how the teal-ish color plays up nicely with the rainbow sherbet mix (this was dyed back in the days of Kool-Aid experimentation — pretty cool, huh?)
I’m thinking this morning of how to actually accomplish the task of finishing 100 hats, but this is the [...]
<*whew*> this looks better, eh?
and the crown:
I did a 6-section decrease, but it really should have been an 8 section. This version still sort of ‘peaks’ in an odd manner. I don’t know where my head was, but I made the instructions to be an 8 section decrease. I also wrote the instructions to allow [...]
Nooooo…. that’s NOT what I was aiming for, but this is where my day went: knitting The Nipple Cap:
The first decrease worked okay, but somehow I miscalculated (AGAIN!). So tomorrow I’m going to snip the center closure, go back to where it worked okay , and do a simple direct decrease method instead and not [...]
Okay, so I brought in the day’s drying, and made buns of the Tropical Lace Combo pair.
Gawd, I LOVE how these look:
You can see how the colors play within the buns, especial the blue-green one. It’s amazing, isn’t it? This is the kind of combination that needs to be worked up in [...]
