Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Oct26
I’m almost finished with my vest. I’m about 40% finished with the I-cord edgings. Then, it’s just a matter of finding separating zippers of the right color. Yeah, right. I’ll be lucky if I can find something close and approximately the right length. I also finished spinning the hand dyed wool from Banana Belt I [...]
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Oct21
I can’t believe it. I misread my own instructions, not once, but twice. And we are not talking about misreading it the same way twice, but two different ways. Now I need to rip both front panels of the vest back to the start of the neck decreases. (Okay, yes, I also need to rewrite [...]
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Oct12
I’m zipping along on the vest. Part of me is bored with all the stockinette stitch, but the other part of me can’t stop because I can’t wait to see what the finished piece will look like. Will it end up as I envisioned it? So far so good. Actually, almost exactly as I envisioned [...]
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Oct09
I just got back from the Black Sheep Handweavers Guild monthly meeting, where I saw lots of wonderful projects that people have worked on over their summer vacation. Now, I have this urge to give weaving another try. Please, please, please, someone stop me. I should just accept that I can appreciate these beauties without [...]
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Oct08
I yearn for the days when I fall asleep immediately when Arnold’s name come across the big screen at the beginning of a movie. Perhaps when I wake up, I’ll find that this was all a bad dream. Here’s an email from my brother-in-law last night that says it all. Ann Dahling: Ve hope dat [...]
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