Lately I have been knitting a lot of hats, as they are a practical object that gets used everyday. Lately though I have been lusting after lace. One of the new shawl patterns that has caught my eye is Luiza. The designer is even doing a give away on her blog for the pattern.
Oh pretty pretty lace, yarn that I have spun waiting ever so patiently for a project just like you. Hopefully I will win her giveaway, but, even if I don't that pattern will be mine before the end of the month.
What projects are you lusting after? Lace, cables, baby booties?
Sunday, February 21, 2010
Wednesday, February 3, 2010
Spinning
The spinning bug has bitten me again. After a long hiatus, thanks largely in part to the cat who chewed up my spindle, I am back to spinning. I replaced the spindle and bought some fabulous superwash merino top from A Weavers Yarn. My favorite fiber store, truth be told it's the only one I've been to.
Susan and Martin, the owners, are the most helpful people around. They opened up the shop on a sunday so I could shop without kids. I tried to make it quick so as not to be a nuisance, but, with all the pretty things it was a very hard endeavor. I bought 8 oz. of superwash merino, 1 oz. of cashmere and a sample of 80/20 Bison/Alpaca. Non-fiber items I purchased include a small Ashford Spindle and a 12 dent reed for my Schact loom. I still have to alter the reed as my loom is not a standard size, but, luckily the spindle came ready to use. ;p
I could not say enough wonderful things about these two, so I will leave it here for today so I don't bore you. All in all a fabulous shopping experience.
Where is your favorite store to shop, fiber or non-fiber (i.e. clothing, grocery ect...)???
Susan and Martin, the owners, are the most helpful people around. They opened up the shop on a sunday so I could shop without kids. I tried to make it quick so as not to be a nuisance, but, with all the pretty things it was a very hard endeavor. I bought 8 oz. of superwash merino, 1 oz. of cashmere and a sample of 80/20 Bison/Alpaca. Non-fiber items I purchased include a small Ashford Spindle and a 12 dent reed for my Schact loom. I still have to alter the reed as my loom is not a standard size, but, luckily the spindle came ready to use. ;p
I could not say enough wonderful things about these two, so I will leave it here for today so I don't bore you. All in all a fabulous shopping experience.
Where is your favorite store to shop, fiber or non-fiber (i.e. clothing, grocery ect...)???
Tuesday, February 2, 2010
VACATION!!!!!!!
It's set up, reservations made, babysitter arranged. My hubtard and I are going on our first alone vacation since Baby J was born almost 6 yrs ago. We are headed off to Anchorage.
I lived in the area when I was 9-11 yrs old and have only been back for brief visits since. I am really looking forward to eating at Benihana and shopping at Fantastic Fibers (rav link).
Outside of that I don't really know what else we'll be doing while we are down there. We are headed down Feb 11 and coming back on Valentine's Day.
If you're in Anchor town, leave me a comment and let me know what awesome things are going down that weekend.
The pictures I promised will have to wait, it is 15 below zero out there and the light still sucks.
I lived in the area when I was 9-11 yrs old and have only been back for brief visits since. I am really looking forward to eating at Benihana and shopping at Fantastic Fibers (rav link).
Outside of that I don't really know what else we'll be doing while we are down there. We are headed down Feb 11 and coming back on Valentine's Day.
If you're in Anchor town, leave me a comment and let me know what awesome things are going down that weekend.
The pictures I promised will have to wait, it is 15 below zero out there and the light still sucks.
Monday, February 1, 2010
Wool Hats and Handspun
I especially enjoy knitting hats, top down, bottom up and sideways.
Hats are eminently useful. Here in the great white north (to be known in the future as GWN). They keep your head and ears warm and show off the beautiful yarn at all times. I recently knit one out of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Medium weight, I believe the colorway was Walking on the Wild Tide. In plain stockinette the colors just look fabulous. I wore it to drop my daughter of at school today and got a wonderful compliment from one of the other moms.
So in light of these compliments I am working on another hat-Selbu Modern- out of some gorgeous blue and green handspun from Kate,( you can see her gorgeous work here), this is a picture of the sweater she knit with the same yarn.
My own pictures will be coming soon, maybe tommorrow afternoon if we get some good light for picture taking.
In the mean time, what are you knitting? What do you knit most of?
Hats are eminently useful. Here in the great white north (to be known in the future as GWN). They keep your head and ears warm and show off the beautiful yarn at all times. I recently knit one out of Blue Moon Fiber Arts Socks that Rock Medium weight, I believe the colorway was Walking on the Wild Tide. In plain stockinette the colors just look fabulous. I wore it to drop my daughter of at school today and got a wonderful compliment from one of the other moms.
So in light of these compliments I am working on another hat-Selbu Modern- out of some gorgeous blue and green handspun from Kate,( you can see her gorgeous work here), this is a picture of the sweater she knit with the same yarn.
My own pictures will be coming soon, maybe tommorrow afternoon if we get some good light for picture taking.
In the mean time, what are you knitting? What do you knit most of?
Friday, April 24, 2009
Fiber and felt
While running errands today I decided to stop in at my favorite little fiber shop A Weaver's Yarn, found online here http://www.littleshopoart.com/ . While there I picked up a couple of ounces of corriedale top and a book Creative Felt by Angelika Wolk-Gerche. I do not know how I have lived without this book for so long. Susan is a genius at helping you find exactly what you need that you never knew you needed. While definitely a luxury at 18 bucks for a relativly short book, it is worth every penny and not even an hour later Baby J and I have already made a pair of felted Mushroom slippers out of it. With our little twist of stripes instead of dots this project was fun and relatively quick to do.
A must have for felt crafters everywhere!
A must have for felt crafters everywhere!
Thursday, April 23, 2009
Spring Thaw
Well I haven't been around lately and I will explain why shortly, not that I think anyone is really reading this yet so......
Fairbanks is finally starting to thaw out so I have been taking the kids outside to play quite a bit and besides some mud on the floors I think I am enjoying their outside time more than they are. Being my childrens are 4 and 2 yrs old I still have to go outside with them and have been getting quite a bit of knitting done while they are splashing in puddles and throwing rocks at each other.
Last month I got to experience to joy of having my gallbladder removed and the only interesting thing I have to say about that whole ordeal involves lots of Percocet. Not really ready to go there though.
Also have decided to homeschool Baby J for Kinnygarden and looking forward to the curriculum fair going on next week. I can't wait to get some work books and start schoolin her. No one in my family is really supportive but seeing as they are all certifiably insane, I have decided to ignore them until the bring me a clean bill of mental health from a PHD.
That's all for now, be back whenever.
ETA My two year old boy made me hug and kiss his potato chip before he would take a nap, crazy must just run in the family.
Fairbanks is finally starting to thaw out so I have been taking the kids outside to play quite a bit and besides some mud on the floors I think I am enjoying their outside time more than they are. Being my childrens are 4 and 2 yrs old I still have to go outside with them and have been getting quite a bit of knitting done while they are splashing in puddles and throwing rocks at each other.
Last month I got to experience to joy of having my gallbladder removed and the only interesting thing I have to say about that whole ordeal involves lots of Percocet. Not really ready to go there though.
Also have decided to homeschool Baby J for Kinnygarden and looking forward to the curriculum fair going on next week. I can't wait to get some work books and start schoolin her. No one in my family is really supportive but seeing as they are all certifiably insane, I have decided to ignore them until the bring me a clean bill of mental health from a PHD.
That's all for now, be back whenever.
ETA My two year old boy made me hug and kiss his potato chip before he would take a nap, crazy must just run in the family.
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