Was pleased as punch that I finally got my yarn today. One skein (1250 yds) of JaggerSpun Zephyr laceweight in Charcoal. It's a 50/50 wool/tussah silk mix and it's like buttah! What wasn't so cool was that I had totally forgotten to ask the person I ordered it from to wind it into a ball. [...]
Entries from June 2006
June 12, 2006
The Amazing Lace is in a Holding Pattern
I'm waiting for the yarn I ordered. I emailed the vendor to ask when I could expect my package. When I got an email confirmation of the order, I was told it was being shipped the next day. The answer I got was not pleasing. It was basically, oh, I have [...]
June 8, 2006
Growing, Growing, Gone!
I must be growing as a knitter. Consider exhibit A, "The Second Frogging". Exhibit B will be called "Sock? What sock?" I was on the toe decreases for a top down sock, took a good critical look at it, and decided that I wasn't feeling it. What took me a week and a half [...]
June 8, 2006
Diamond Fantasy Is In Time-Out
So, I realized what the error was in the pattern (two rows were printed twice in the instructions), so I started over. Near the end of the first repeat, I drop a stitch and cannot recover. Three hours more work down the toilet. I'm trying very hard to look at this as an exercise in [...]
June 8, 2006
The Amazing Lace
Welcome to the Amazing Lace! Ladies and Gentlemen, we are pleased to introduce to you TEAM FIBER MADNESS!!!! (lots of cheering and clapping) She's psycho, she's obsessed, and she's mad with fiber, here's the captain of the team…….. Amy!!!!!!!!! After much deliberation, her first round draft pick [...]
June 8, 2006
Substitution Woes
Why is it that when I find a pattern that I love, the recommended yarn would cost me about $100 and it's near impossible to find an inexpensive substitution?
June 8, 2006
Handspun Yarn on Sale
I just lowered the price on the handspun yarn I have for sale at Fiber Madness (my Etsy shop). I'm not entirely sure when I will have more, a lot depends on when construction is done at the house and I can take out my wool without worrying about drywall dust getting into it.
June 8, 2006
Sock It To Me One More Time!
I decided to broaden my horizons and am currently working on a pair of socks with a diamond lace pattern using Trekking XXL sock yarn (damn Area 51, I'm working on socks dammit!). Not sure if using such a busy colored yarn with a lace pattern is a great idea, but I think it will [...]
June 8, 2006
Area 51
AKA, a place to find UFO's. Sarah's post about her chronic UFO/WIP condition got me thinking about mine. I almost always have no less than 5 projects going on at one time. When I have a larger project (for example, and afghan), I tend to start another project, usually a smaller project, in the [...]
June 8, 2006
Socks! Again!
Socks! Originally uploaded by headcase. Knit with wool from Yarntini in her Appletini colorway. Used size 0(US) dpns, I think, and knit from the top down.
