Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Oct31
Getting old stinks. Cold weather stinks. The joints in my right hand started to ache this week. Just a general ache, until I picked up my socks and started knitting. Then, they really started to hurt. To the point where I could only do a couple of rounds a day. That really put a crimp [...]
Oct25
I started these socks on Saturday night, while I was sitting in the rain for 7+ hours. Why? I needed something to do while I was sitting out in the rain. Oh, why was I sitting out in the rain? I was at The Bridge School’s annual benefit concert. What a great concert. Not only [...]
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Oct23
Free sports event tickets? Instead, I got a call to remind me to attend an annual ethics briefing. The briefer reminded us that we are not allowed to accept sports tickets or seats in corporate boxes. I also get to attend annual security and sexual harassment awareness training. No jokes, please.
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Oct21
It was cold and rainy here yesterday, in the land of sunshine. I reached into my socks drawer, and found only one pair of clean, dry, handknit socks. (It was sock laundry day.) They were a pair of RED socks knitted with Mountain Mohair. Coincidence? I’ll let you decide. I know what I’ll be wearing [...]
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Oct18
Finally, it’s done. 254 yards of silk/cashmere 2 ply, at approximately 30 wpi. The picture at left is the small ball of singles, just before I plied it up. This represents about 1/2 oz of 50/50 silk/cashmere blended rovings that I got last February, and has been spinning on and off (mostly off) for the [...]