Knitting and occasional cooking and gardening adventures!
Jul 28 2009
Last night I got out the blocking mats, washed Hey Teach, and it’s now blocking.
Hey Teach, blocking!
I also finished up Clue 3 of the Secret Garden Shawl. The yarn is Green Sheep Fingering from The Unique Sheep and the colorway is Hearts on Fire. (Sorry, forgot to mention that yesterday!)
Clue 3, laid out as best [...]
Jul 27 2009
Wow, this weekend was a BUSY one. I feel like I didn’t get done anything that I’d planned to, but I suppose that’s the way things go sometimes. I’m planning on not doing anything this weekend except work on house stuff with Matt so we can stop feeling so dragged down by the things that [...]
Jul 24 2009
Aren’t Friday’s supposed to be “easy” days at work? Usually less stressful? For me they’ve almost always been the “easy” work day, but not today! It was one of those Murphy’s Law days where anything that could have gone wrong, did. Since I’m pretty wiped out this week (yet again it seems), I’ll keep this [...]
Jul 22 2009
Last night I spent two hours plying and skeining the lovely merino singles I finished spinning Monday night. I ended up with about 210 yards.
Emerald City, merino, 210 yards
Close up.
I really need to get a wraps per inch tool so I can get a better idea of the weight of yarn. Looking at it, it [...]
Jul 21 2009
This past weekend, I finished drafting up the rest of the mernio from Zarzuela’s Fibers in the Emerald City colorway.
Picture taken using my iPhone since I forgot to take one with my camera before I started spinning - whoops!
Friday and Saturday I spent an hour each day pre-drafting. Sunday I spent about 20 minutes finishing [...]
