tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-66666889070869407492024-03-21T09:40:27.674-04:00Pieceful SlumberKiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.comBlogger751125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-16776512938797071072016-12-21T22:39:00.003-05:002016-12-21T22:39:46.409-05:00Starting a New BlogFind me and other BFFs from Best Friend Fibers at http://bffibers.blogspot.com/Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-55161183613937723462016-08-11T11:26:00.000-04:002016-08-11T11:26:15.884-04:00Where Have I Been?Hi there,<br /><br />It's me. Yes, I'm still here. I just haven't been posting to this blog. What have I been doing instead? Well! I'm glad you asked, 'cause I've been busy.<br /><br />
First there was all the extra inventory that needed to be dyed or spun for upcoming events: the Tomato Festival is next Saturday. We're doing a pop-up at New River Fiber Company the following weekend. And Wilderness Trail Festival the beginning of September. Lots of venues lots of yarns needing to be dyed and spun... and I wish I had time to find the batteries for the camera take some more pictures and get them uploaded so you can see all the new stuff!<br /><br />Then, last weekend I was demonstrating spinning and carding at an 18th century encampment. So there was also much sewing of things to wear that would be period appropriate. Do you know none of my 18th century costumes still fit.... something to do with making them when I was still a teenager and having learned to cook and bake really yummy fattening foods since then. Oh well. Good thing I can still sew. Now, I also wish I had a photo of that to put in here -- but do you know? I forgot my camera. Still, I know at least 3 people took video of me spinning, and more than a dozen asked if they could take pictures ... maybe I'll run across a photo of myself somewhere online someday.<br /><br />And then (I said I've been busy) we've been working on the website. It's not done yet. But I'm pleased to announce that Best Friend Fibers is officially online at bestfriendfibers.com. So exciting!<br /><br />Later this month I will be looking into getting myself cloned so that the housework doesn't get as neglected as this blog.<br />
<br />Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-1444754334717537802016-07-13T12:45:00.001-04:002016-07-13T12:45:56.452-04:00Indian Corn Yarn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">When creating yarn I play. I start with something that has fun <br />colour combinations, like these kernels of Wade's Giant Indian Corn.<br />[Seeds from Baker Creek, my plants got gnawed down by squirrels <br />though so I'll have no ears this year.]</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Lined up 4 oz of the fluff in the steaming pan to look like corn on the cob.<br />Applying the dyes from the top, there will be areas, on the bottom, that<br />only get enough dye penetration to turn pastel or may even remain white.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Hand application of various dye batches mixed up from Greener Shades Dyes.<br />proportionally it looks like I could have used more of the yellow, but ...enh.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Wet wool hanging on the back porch to dry, as the fiber dries the colours will lighten a little <br />but once I could see how they played against the white<br />I was finding the colours very bright. and it occurred to me that maybe<br />that second bump (hanging in the background) dyed in <br />muted purpley, bluey, greeny, greys might make a good ply for it.<br /></td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Separated into slivers, dry and ready for spinning. <br />I am loving the colours more now. Look how they play!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I decided to spin it up a little heavier than my usual weight for the first single.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">And then, spin the second single for plying in really thin, cobweb lace weight.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Plying the two together should create a slightly bumpy "Thread plied" looking yarn.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Like this! Yes! That's how it looked in my head!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The play of the bright colours, softened by the grey tones, <br />but still with a lot of movement and colours playing off each other.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Just like an ear of Indian Corn, but yarn!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">"Blue Coco Bean" Pole Beans</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Sage and Lavender</td></tr>
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<br />Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-6414236080197549982016-06-24T12:17:00.000-04:002016-06-24T12:17:02.883-04:00Inspiration From Flowers<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Foxgloves, Roses, and Daffodils inspired colours for yummy lace weight yarns in silk and wool blend.</div>
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Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-20999679297313503762016-06-20T11:58:00.000-04:002016-06-20T11:58:12.986-04:00Rose In Bloom<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Red rose twining over the mailbox.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This might be Apothecary Rose, I don't have a label on it.</td></tr>
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Everybody online suggested that Practicing your booth set-up at home first would make it easier to set up when you got to your event. So I practiced for this new direction that my life is taking. A table full of wool, hand-dyed. some handspun even, yarns and fluff. </div>
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I registered my business as "Best Friend Fibers" and my logo says "BFF"</div>
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It looked pretty good at home, I thought.</div>
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P.S. Tomorrow is World-Wide Knit In Public Day, and I'll be setting up at the Farmers Market again for that.</div>
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<br />Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-41582631444979926962016-06-13T10:54:00.000-04:002016-06-13T10:54:01.165-04:00Are You My Mother?<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
Simon found a baby bird in the garden. I was mowing the yard and he was "on point" pointing to the bottom rung of a tomato tower where this little guy was chirping away.</div>
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The poor little thing seemed scared, stunned, and a little wet. I 'm not sure Simon hadn't already tried to eat it... or lick it... or eat it. He was quite sure I shouldn't have anything to do with it though.</div>
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This is Simon's barking face. He was not ready to share his mommy with a bird. As far as he was concerned, I was giving aide and comfort to the enemy and he repeatedly ordered me to leave that baby bird alone. Now! Mommy!</div>
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The bird meanwhile seemed quite at home on my finger, on my shoulder, even on the camera. When it fluttered to the camera it had a sort of "Are you my mother?" vibe. (Anyone remember that classic kids book? Good stuff.)</div>
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Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-74145531644786817702016-06-11T01:26:00.000-04:002016-06-11T01:26:18.284-04:00Bathroom, Part 4Indoor plumbing. I have proven one <i>can</i> live without it, but oh by golly, I so much prefer living <i>with </i>it.<br /><table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A wiser person might have painted the whole room the night before instead of painting just what had to get done and then going to bed. I was not a wiser person -- but I thought I was pretty clever to figure out I could put the ladder half in the tub.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">A few more finishing touches.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Even the bath shy Simon approves. He's a huge fan of the new bobbley bath rug.</td></tr>
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Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-18082233088324948422016-06-10T10:39:00.003-04:002016-06-10T10:39:56.085-04:00Intermission<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
The very first thing I thought of after learning about helix knitting was how it could be used to make candy cane stripe hats. I think I've almost got it, don't you? Which one is your favorite?</div>
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<br />Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-91773953720359786652016-06-10T10:24:00.003-04:002016-06-10T10:26:10.783-04:00Bathroom, Part 3And so the new floor goes in. Or rather, what goes in is the leftover flooring from when I re-did the studio and there were two boxes extra and even though a couple of the boards were warped a bit I still made it work for the bathroom with just bits and pieces and only one and a half planks leftover from this job. Oh Yeah!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Thermal layer under floating hardwood/laminate. I used actual duct tape to tape it to the duct -- Did you know Duck Tape, and Duct Tape, while supposedly the same thing, aren't. Duct tape is shiny silver and has a much stronger sticky.</td></tr>
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Did I mention I had already primed (2 coats) all of the new drywall and painted (Benjamin Moore, Dove White) the wall where the toilet and sink needed to be installed. I had. If I could get everything done in time the plumber would seat the toilet the next day -- if not it would be maybe another week before he could get back to me. It was getting finished that night!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Oh, and the power was off to the bathroom, so I was pulling a late night with only a trouble light to see by.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">My version of a "Dove Bar" in the freezer.</td></tr>
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Here's a handy tip I learned ages ago: If you are only going to be taking a break from painting and come right back to it in the next day or two then don't clean your paint brush. Freeze it instead. Wrapped in aluminium foil and frozen the paint brush or roller will last up to a week even. This will save you all the wasted latex paint you get when cleaning out between uses. It takes a little while to thaw out but it works really well.<br />
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So while the paint brushes and rollers full of primer and Dove White paint waited in the freezer the floor went in.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">I am proud of how well I managed jigging into the corners and such.</td></tr>
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The power was still on in the living room so that was the staging area where I cut all the boards to size. There was a lot of sawdust. A lot!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Those boxes on the left are the sink and toilet waiting to go in.</td></tr>
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Eventually the floor was done, and with aching bones (slightly warped boards take a lot of pounding to be convinced to lay flat properly) I went to borrow the functioning plumbing at the Wise Woman's house for a hot shower. After all, my hair may be going grey, but it really shouldn't be going Dove White!<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The vent grate had to be trimmed down with metal cutters to fit since the duct was flush with the wall.</td></tr>
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To be continued...<br />
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<br />Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-78696574989923040212016-06-09T09:52:00.000-04:002016-06-10T09:53:00.279-04:00Bathroom, Part 2<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Meanwhile, in the half-emptied living room, the new tub has arrived and the shower surround warms itself by the fireplace.</td></tr>
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The plummer I found to help with the work recommended a durable fiberglass tub with horizontal seams in the surround. It's supposed to not get as gringy. (You know what that word means right? Even though I made it up?)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Progress is being made. Okay, the new tub is not hooked into the plumbing yet, but at least it's in place!</td></tr>
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Fiberglass bat insulation now fills the space between the studs of the exterior wall. Eighth inch ply sheaths the floor for a clean level surface, and the new tub finally wandered in from the living room. But what do I see in that photos? I'm not loving those oddly ornate pulls on the cupboard -- I think I have some old white porcelain ones somewhere I can use instead. (I did. Happiness!)<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Still needs a shower head... and drywalling in.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">The tub just squeaked in. Any tighter and we'd have had to move the window, not just the window trim.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">But doesn't the new drywall look good? There's something about freshly spackled drywall that always seems so hopeful to me. Like I imagine artist feel with a freshly gessoed canvas.</td></tr>
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<br />To be continued...<br /><br /><br />
Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-8575760736114649502016-06-08T09:33:00.000-04:002016-06-10T09:34:09.604-04:00At LastAt Last I am getting around to updating this blog and At Last showing pictures of my bathroom redo from February. (Also, "At Last" the song will be my earworm for the duration of this post if not the rest of the day. Thank you, Billie Holiday.)<br />
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I could blame the delay on the two (Two!) times my supposedly immune laptop got virused and had to be wiped and reset, but I suspect the delay was more along the lines of I just didn't make the blog a priority and was busy doing other things. Sorry about that. Photos of "other things" will be forthcoming. (No really, I promise.)<br />
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Let us begin with the bathroom demo:<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Evidence that the bathroom was once tiled with real tile.<br />Was chipped, mismatched, poorly installed "faux tile" board really an upgrade?</td></tr>
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While I realize that circa 1950 tile means that that plaster was probably once back of pink and black, powder blue, or mint green tiles... was that really so bad that some previous owner needed to remove it and do a crap job with crap wallboard? (I'm blaming the "flipper" who took cheapo shortcuts in the kitchen too.)<br />
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Dealing with what's left -- the plaster -- that's a lot to rip out, so we'll be using a 1/4 drywall later floor to ceiling to evenly cover the whole wall with a clean surface.<br />
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">For the next couple days the only bathroom in the house won't be usable.<br />Which is a problem because after creating this sort of mess one really wants a shower!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">This is the old tub. The hairline cracks around the drain had reached about to cause serious water damage leaking into the basement stage. Grey water's all very well in theory, but it's not so great puddling in front of the dryer.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">Under several layers of floor there's another floor. It was like a stack of pancakes in there!</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">We did remove the plaster from the end wall, in order to insulate it properly as it is an exterior wall. Previously it was un-insulated, unless you count the single layer of brown paper thinner than a paper bag, which I don't.</td></tr>
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<tr><td class="tr-caption" style="text-align: center;">That's original wood flooring under the lino glue and flooring staples.<br /> I could cry over having to cover that floor back over.</td></tr>
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Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-15006613426161168872016-04-18T01:00:00.000-04:002016-04-18T08:11:40.034-04:00If At First...Success in knitting, you see, is a relative thing. There are times when I "try, try again" because the pattern is rubbish (my own or someone else's even) and times when it takes me forever to finish because I'm just not feeling it.<br />
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It's not that I don't knit at a relatively decent speed, it's more that I keep remembering something my great-grandmother made or showed me how to make, stitches she used, cast ons and offs, the way she told me to hold my yarn -- these things are treasures buried in my memory. Lost for years, they tend to come to light half way through a project, changing everything.<br />
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Suddenly the perfectly fine way the modern pattern or youtube video says to do it isn't nearly as neat (Granny was strict about having a neat back and front to your knitting), or easy (you simply cannot beat years and years of accumulated tricks and tips that get handed down from knitter to knitter), or <i>right</i> as the way she taught me all those years ago. I become dissatisfied with the work, rip it out, and start again.<br />
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In the end, I want my finished pieces to look like they could have come off of her needles. Like they carry on the traditions she learned as a child at her granny's knee and passed on to me when I was a wee one at her knee. As though these American born designs of mine have that soft, slightly Scottish accent tying them to my heritage and the long line of talented women who somehow knit my DNA from their own.Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-14260630008265412492016-04-16T03:00:00.000-04:002016-04-16T03:00:08.061-04:00More Hand Supn<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Variegate Dyed SW Merino, Hand spun and chain plied </div>
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Then knit. Then frogged, because I liked it but ... somehow all the stripes (yarn and stitch) together just didn't thrill me. So yes, this is a photo of knitting that does not exist anymore.</div>
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Also: have you noticed how hard it is to capture some colors?</div>
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This lovely 2 ply skein of variegated purples (dyed in the wool) is so compelling in person but every time I take it's picture it goes sulky for the camera and won't photograph. I keep trying. You can sort of get the idea of the depth of color in the first picture, and the play of light and dark in the second picture.</div>
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Meanwhile, more lace swatches are being knit...</div>
Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-70450764511683578742016-04-13T14:15:00.003-04:002016-04-13T14:16:02.145-04:00Hat and Scarf for my Sister<a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvrzNSk814ehwoG-JTf-M0JZTAz7cnJf4DQ6YeluzJbxb2dgsx1OkxsNQ4iPXTvu9frv9iJgS6RsNK7foaCLgKkjD98VA0ers_ZN4nRZKDqBVohHZSto2XVoNoSRU-V-z-vd1ZtEnq3Ff/s1600/matching-entrelac.jpg" imageanchor="1"></a><a href="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbf6gTlm6nwblpF2qqcV-QnyXmXz4qDQLnBP_uT5a8NUVdxxOp2FVdn-RBIIHxQX5JKnZgXToQ4DL-eOQJYM7912fIcwooQR962pF1O8_q7WBrzVZOAJNT4foc9C9n8G3SAGMj4okicKFx/s1600/matching-entrelac-scarf.jpg" imageanchor="1"><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEjbf6gTlm6nwblpF2qqcV-QnyXmXz4qDQLnBP_uT5a8NUVdxxOp2FVdn-RBIIHxQX5JKnZgXToQ4DL-eOQJYM7912fIcwooQR962pF1O8_q7WBrzVZOAJNT4foc9C9n8G3SAGMj4okicKFx/s400/matching-entrelac-scarf.jpg" width="400" /></a><img border="0" height="300" src="https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/img/b/R29vZ2xl/AVvXsEgLvrzNSk814ehwoG-JTf-M0JZTAz7cnJf4DQ6YeluzJbxb2dgsx1OkxsNQ4iPXTvu9frv9iJgS6RsNK7foaCLgKkjD98VA0ers_ZN4nRZKDqBVohHZSto2XVoNoSRU-V-z-vd1ZtEnq3Ff/s400/matching-entrelac.jpg" width="400" /><br />
This is the Scarf<br />
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That matches the Hat<br />
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That's knitted with Penguins (FUN!)<br />
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When the work in progress (wip) was not progressing, and I had "used all my lifelines" and it still wasn't coming out right. I gave in and swatched. The swatch didn't balance either. Now I will admit that my first thought was that I was doing something wrong. After all, how much lace have I really knit? Not enough to think myself an expert by any means. So I swatched again. Still wrong.<br />
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At this point I began to question both my sanity and the pattern. I googled for the supposedly traditional Shetland lace pattern by the name given on the pattern... yeah, not exactly the same. Having found a sample graph elsewhere (thank you Google!) my swatch from this second source's instructions turned out perfect the first time.<br />
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It is also worth noting that among the sample graphs of the new source I found several other patterns which I think I might like even better.Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-3538291547026130442016-04-10T01:30:00.000-04:002016-04-09T22:46:17.951-04:00Swatching Lace<table align="center" cellpadding="0" cellspacing="0" class="tr-caption-container" style="margin-left: auto; margin-right: auto; text-align: center;"><tbody>
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From my samples I learned much. I need work on blocking, I like size 2 needles best with this yarn (Silk & Mohair 2ply lace yarn), I prefer the invisible cast on, and I don't think swatching for lace on something that has no real size (scarf/stole) does anything more than tell you if you can knit the pattern right.<br />
So, I didn't swatch for the big project after all. I just plunged right in.<br />
*cough*<br />
Yes, I have frogged (again) the Shetland Stole I decided to do for my first big lace project.<br />
But as this will be my first "real lace" knitting and, naturally, I picked something traditional and complicated, I don't feel like that's a horrible thing. I am thinking though that maybe I will just run a couple life lines in before I even finish the repeat - I seem to go wrong in my count somewhere around row seven. So a life line in row 4 or 5 maybe. Better safe than sorry right? After all, you can only rip out your knitting so many times before the yarn turns back to fuzz, and some forward momentum would be nice.Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-20821981410607766522016-04-09T14:26:00.004-04:002016-04-09T14:53:57.524-04:00Simon Says: Snow Day<div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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Actually, right now Simon is saying nothing; he is too busy curling himself into comfortable positions on the blanket near the fire. He has positioned himself so that when the sun shines in the window it shines on him, and when the clouds blow over, while still nice and cozy, he can watch snow falling down on some of the other neighborhood dogs.<br />
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Simon does not particularly like the other neighborhood dogs, but on cold days he feels quite sorry for them being left outside. I have to admit there is occasionally a certain indolent smugness about him as he watches them through the window. He goes outside too, of course, but he gets to come back in. They have to stay outside.<br />
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Did I mention? It is snowing today! We woke on this April morning in the "sunny south" to a dusting of snow. The daffodils are blooming and nodding at the snow flurries as they fall, the veggies look a bit nipped around the edges after their cold night, and the cherry, plum, and apple blossoms threaten not to become fruit if it is going to be this cold.<br />
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Meanwhile, snug inside with Simon, I have finally downloaded pictures from the camera (as you can see) and am updating this blog, so you are looking at icy snowy pictures from February. Not really representative of today's light dusting and wind swept flurries, but that's okay, right?<br />
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Simon has moved to the couch beside me, curling up on a different blanket, still with a view of the window but with less of a draft. He knows I'm blogging about him. Stay warm out there, he says.<br />
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Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-14296476616798372612016-03-10T14:35:00.003-05:002016-03-10T14:38:52.907-05:00Dear Mom, I Do Plan To Update My BlogPhotos from the bathroom remodel are still languishing in the camera, waiting to be downloaded, and then uploaded to an as yet unwritten post appearing on this blog. Title to be something along the lines of: <i>yes you can still sort of live in your one bathroom house while the plumbers rip out and replace every broken, molding bit of that one bathroom and spiff things up until it is fabulous, or at least as fab as it can be for an 8'x6' room with that much plumbing squeezed into it</i> (but shorter and with aforementioned photos).<br />
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Photos of various knitting and sewing projects, cute Simon shots, and pics of Hooray! Spring! flowers (crocus) and assorted outdoor getting the garden ready project pictures are currently suffering from a similar fate. Which explains why this post has no accompanying eye-candy.<br />
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Soon though. Soon.Kiinahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11842294398414449651noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6666688907086940749.post-23419069761895085282016-02-13T14:29:00.000-05:002016-02-13T14:29:02.403-05:00Happy Valentine's Day <div class="separator" style="clear: both; text-align: center;">
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It's not supposed to yell like that is it? Simon asks as the spinning wheel squeaks and sqicks and squaks loudly. I am spinning up some of my hand dyed Falkland wool from <a href="http://piecefulslumber.blogspot.com/2015/12/breaking-black.html" target="_blank">my first experiments with breaking Wilton.</a> </div>
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No. I tell him. It's not supposed to. And I spend some time hunting for the right oil to oil the wheel with. The squeaky wheel gets the grease. I say laughing to myself.</div>
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What would a barking wheel get? he asks. Could I get some grease too?</div>
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That's much better. That, I can sleep through. Simon says when his belly is full and the wheel is humming quietly again.<br />
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