Fiber Dreams

Well. I finished the second forget-me-not sock. That means it’s time to rip out sock one, and re-knit it on smaller needles. That means that this is now two balls of yarn instead of a sock. I did cast on again, though, and I’ve knit up the picot edge, and the first row of the pattern.

So, as predicted when I started, I’m knitting three socks to get a pair. I think I’ll take a little break from sock knitting after this. I’m getting tired of re-knitting socks!

Starmore

I don’t know about you, but except for occasionally seeing references to Alice and Jade Starmore’s out-of-print books, and the rare sweater knit from one of them, I hadn’t seen hide nor hair of them for years. Until today when I got this week’s newsletter from Knitter’s Review. Turns out this mother-daugh­ter team have a web site, Virtual Yarns, and sell kits online. Accord­ing to the review, this site lets you play with colors for at least some of the designs, while others come in pre-determined colorways. I think I’m going to have to go exploring there soon.

Weaving

Except for the tiny square I wove on the small loom I was given when I was in grade school, and all the pot holders I made with those kits with the loops about the same time, I haven’t woven a thing. But I’ve always been interested in it. I’ve had a lot of fun recently reading Marlene’s blog, seeing the different looms she has, and seeing the different types of things that come off of them. All totally cool. So, I asked her if she knew anything about my loom. She doesn’t really, but she knew enough… this is what she said:

I don’t know a whole lot about looms Laura. I’m a novice weaver myself. It looks to me like it is a simple 2 harness loom though. It would be warped like any standard table loom and would be capable of simple patterns. It would definitely do “plain weave” sometimes called “tabby,” which is what you see in the weaving my daughter is doing. With the addition of color you could come up with stripes, plaids and such. If you are willing to explore “pick-up” techniques even more variety would be possible.

She also referred me to a beginning weaving book, Learning to Weave by Deborah Chandler. I may just have to pick up a copy of that book.

Thank you, Marlene! By the way, I love the stuff you’ve been weaving!

Spam

Dave informed me that the captcha application I was using created a ton of errors. Tons and tons. He suggested I report it. After I investigated a bit I found that would probably be a waste of time—after all, the program is years old and still version 1.0—so I did some research and found another one. I think it’s pretty cool, though Dave’s somewhat doubtful that it’ll really work. We’ll see. You may or may not actually see anything… If you have JavaScript turned on and you appear to be coming from a “safe” place, you won’t have to enter captcha information in order to leave me a com­ment. If either of those things is false, then you will. It’s rather cool at this point, too, I think. If you get a code that you can’t read, you can request a new code by clicking the button to the right of the field. If you are visually impaired, then you click the button on the far right, and it will read the code to you so you can type it in. Slick. Even if you’re not visually impaired you might want to try it. I did. I thought it was pretty cool. But then, I’m easily amused.

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