Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Nov30
I made myself a triangle loom this week, and wove a shawl with handspun this weekend. I am so tickled! It was a lot of fun to both design, build and weave. I made it out of 2″x4″ oak strips. The weaving dimensions are 180 cm across the hypoteneuse, and 134 cm along the sides. [...]
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Nov20
It turns out that that portion of the donkey is knit in 3 separate sections. The upper back piece of the donkey is now done. I’ll be casting on for the underside tonight, and 4 ear flaps, and I can start piecing it together. Did I mention that is a fun project?
Nov19
Just a quick note to say that I’m taking a page from Wendy. I’ll keep comments on for a few days after the blog is posted, and then turn it off after a week. The spammers were only hitting the old entries (so far). I’ll see how this works (and whether I remember to go [...]
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Nov18
Help! Has anyone made the donkey in the Debbie Bliss Toy Knits book? (yes, the secret is out) At the top of page 54, middle column, it reads as follows: Next row K twice in first st, k30, turn. Work on this set of sts only for side of Next row P to last st, [...]
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Nov18
Time sure flies when you are total self absorbed. We didn’t even realize that Thanksgiving was next week until we checked the calendar this weekend — and someone wanted to know what my scheduling looks like for next week. Huh? What’s so special about next week? Oh, Thanksgiving. Yikes! Thanksgiving! I don’t know what we [...]
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