October 25, 2008
Knitting freak out!
At this time last year, I had finished my socks and sweater for the fair. This year? I'm down to the toe... of my first sock. Maybe I'm taking things a bit too seriously, but I love making my fair entries, and I REALLY want to get the Sweepstakes Rosette next year. I just have to get busy. Like REALLY busy. It's not that I haven't been knitting, it's just that I've been working on little things. Perhaps now that my schedule is changing I'll get more done? I'm not sure since I do a LOT of knitting at work. I have to make a decision soon on the shawl/wrap category. What ever the project is going to be will be big and needs to get on the needles soon. I'm considering veering away from my normal lace path, but that's not set in stone.
In other knitting news, after my Dragon*Con adventure, I decided that I was going to make hats for Eve Myles and John Barrowman (the other cast members of Torchwood). I finished Eve's hat, and I hate to even give it away. Mainly, because I LOVE the hat, and to a lesser degree, I'm scared she won't like it. The main reason I don't knit gifts is that I'm always worried that they won't be appreciated. Sure Gareth wore my hat around Dragon*Con, but was he just being nice? Last night I got a message from a woman on LiveJournal who was at a Torchwood convention in the UK this past weekend. She had to let me know that Gareth was wearing my hat! That's a great deal of relief!
Here are the photos of Eve's hat, from fiber to FO.
I've been told twice to write up the pattern. That may actually happen soon. We'll see.
I have more stuff that I can post, but I have to run some errands and get ready for a Halloween party tonight!
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October 05, 2008
Lots of pretty stuff to look at today!
Despite still neglecting my blog a bit, I have been knitting, spinning, and dying, if not as much as I'd like. Things got crazy a few weeks ago. For those of you not in the Kentuckiana area, we were hit with a really crazy windstorm, and over half a million people in Louisville and the surrounding areas lost power. I was lucky and had power back in less than 24 hours, but most of my friends were out for 5-8 days. The carnage of dead limbs and trees can still be seen.
I have some finished objects and new projects to show off, plus the results of a Dye Day at Nicole's house.
First, I finished my Ianto socks this week. I love handspun socks. I mean really. It's getting to be an addiction. I love the colors of these socks. I've ordered another Ianto-inspired from YummyYarn, this one called "Bordering on the Avant Garde" that I plan on spinning up on my Lendrum when I get it soon! But anyway, let's look at the socks I knit.
I finished spinning my "Brooding" roving, and changed the nameo f it to "Black Magic." Because I must have a pair of handspun socks on the needles, I've cast on the Pomatomas socks from knitty.
I've also started on the Cable Net socks from knitty, that I'm making with Crystal Palace's Panda Silk. It's a gorgeous yarn and a gorgeous pattern. I think it's a prefect match.
As I mentioned earlier, Nicole hosted Dye Day at her house on September 27th. I brought roving to dye, the others had ordered yarn from KnitPicks. The weather was perfect and I think a good time was had by all. Of course, Nicole ended up dying NOTHING that day since I'd brought my drum carder for her to play with. Who wants to dye when you can play with a new toy? I lent her my drum carder for a few days and in return Nicole surprised me with 4 oz of Ramboulet roving. Yum!
In the end, I had the following rovings:
I also did a bit of dying yesterday, and while it's still drying, I'm too in love not to share it.
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