Pattern: My own devising
Yarn: JaggerSpun Zephyr Wool-Silk 2/18, 1,000 yards, Aegean Blue
Beads: Size 8/0 beads, silver lined from Fire Mountain Gems
Needles: Size 5 (3.75 mm) Addi Lace, size 5 (3.75 mm) double pointed, size 13 (.85 mm) crochet hook for beading
Elapsed time: August 21 through September 28
Finished size: 24 x 72 inches
Notes: You know […]
South Seas progress
The knitting is done. The grafting is done—all thirteen stitches of it. The ends are woven in—though not clipped. It’s laid out on the floor drying. The color in this set of photos is completely wrong. Not a thing I could do to fix it, either. Oh well. That’s what I get for […]
After that delightful note I got from the swift company late yesterday afternoon, I wrote back, “Fine. Send it back. We’ll fix it here. Thank you for your time.” A couple hours later, this came in:
There is another factor that may be involved. You have a large swift. It is usually purchased by weavers who […]
A history. In June I said:
I got one of your swifts through Patternworks a number of years ago. It worked *great* up until recently. It no longer spins as easily as it should, and when used with a ball winder (which works fine on its own) makes impossibly dense/tight balls, way over-stretching the yarn.
After a […]
Waving
I’ve gotten a lot done on the wave border of my South Seas Stole in the last couple of days. The border is just flying along. I only have a repeat or so left to do on the long side, then round the corner, a couple repeats across the top, graft those few stitches, and […]
When Kristie and I went up to L.A. to see the Yarn Harlot, I naturally took along a sock I’d just started for Dave. I didn’t get far. I was laughing too hard. Turns out I didn’t do too well even on the part I did get done. I did a number of increase rows […]
I don’t know about all of you, but I don’t see my mom very often. The last time I saw her was last Christmas, though thanking the magic of the Internet we are in regular communication via email. Isn’t email a wonderful thing? The main reason we don’t see each other very often is that […]
On tea
On Tuesday my friend Denise came over to help me try these tea blooms that I got from Christina for the first tea swap on Ravelry.
I got out a couple of cappuccino bowls to give the tea plenty of room to grow, and boiled up some water. When we took the tea buds […]
I drove over to Kristie’s house on Saturday morning. I was so excited about seeing the Yarn Harlot that day that I completely forgot to take my new yarn and my finished shawl for her to see. What a dunce. I did remember to get her blocking wires back to her. That’s something, anyway. I […]
Color
Kristi (Fiber Fool) is doing a little color research. Here are my answers:
What is your current favorite color? Just one? I was going to say that I’ve never had just one favorite color, but that’s not quite true. It would be more accurate to say that since I became an adult I’ve always had multiple […]