Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
May31
It’s a good thing that Grace has knitted content for you, because I’ve been experiencing ennui. It’s not that I haven’t wanted to knit. I have. It’s because I haven’t wanted to face reality. Huh? You say. The above sweater is the primary cause of my ennui. Why? Well, I have to say, I am [...]
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May24
The sweater is finished, but we have a photo of only the back. Disneyland found DH’s backpack with the camera and shipped it to our house. So the picture of the completed sweater will be coming soon.
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May24
My head is buzzing, and it’s not just the meds that’s causing the buzz. I just returned from my second Color Institute workshop at Earthues, in Seattle. The first session was at the end of January. There were 16 or 18 of us in the first session. The class size was too large, too hectic. [...]
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May13
Last year, I completed two sweaters based on Colleen Davis’ Triangle Mambo sweater pattern. I worked on the first sweater while Iris was undergoing a tonsillectomy. In the confusion when she came out of the anesthesia and cried for mommy, I lost the pattern. So the sweater is loosely based on Colleen’s pattern. Fortunately, I [...]
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May09
I have been making scarves by sandwiching yarns and fabric scraps between two sheets of Solvy and then quilting a grid with my sewing machine to hold it together. Since DH left his backpack with our digital camera behind at Disneyland, I had to scan this on our flatbed scanner. You can still see the [...]
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