Knitting and occasional cooking and gardening adventures!
Aug 26 2006
I got my package in the mail from my Lace Swap Pal, Amy! I love everything :o)
Here’s what I got: some very pretty pastel purple JaggerSpun Zephyr Wool-Silk with a total of 1200 yards, two patterns - Mountain Peaks Shawl and Shetland Garden Farose Shawl (which I had recently been drooling over online - [...]
Aug 24 2006
Shelia arrived in the mail today with some goodies from my swap partner (Little Visitor Swap from Craftster.org). I was so excited! She came home in the cutest dress, the most awesome scrapbook (that was made from a book!), some souvenirs, and some treats.
Here’s everything:
Here’s a closer look at the scrapbook:
The scrapbook was [...]
Aug 20 2006
After close examination of Rouge this morning, I decided to rip back to the purl row just before changing needle sizes. I was off on my gauge by 1/4 of a stitch per inch which made me nearly 2 inches off overall in size widthwise. I knew it was a little tight when [...]
Aug 19 2006
My Pomatomus socks are done! Actually, they were done Wednesday, but I was in NY and didn’t want to appear too strange to my soon-to-be in-laws by whipping out my camera and my laptop to blog it all after completing the second sock. I’m sure it was enough that I immediately put them [...]
Aug 13 2006
Tonight or tomorrow I’m going to try to kool-aid dye some white yarn I got in a swap ages ago just for this purpose. I’m thinking a greenish color for a scarf. I’m also going to try and felt a little swatch of the dyed yarn and see how it comes out. [...]
