Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent.
Wednesday * February 8th 2012
Jan28
Not a whole lot of exciting things happening here. I can’t seem to focus on much lately, and haven’t wanted to commit to a new project with so many unfinished projects around. So, instead of actually picking up one of those UFOs and working on them, I created UFOs. Huh? Create UFOs yet not start [...]
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Jan28
Finished. I finished this over a week ago. It’s the first time we’ve had sunshine for picture taking in weeks.
Jan10
As knitters, it’s been drilled into us over and over to get enough of a single dye lot to finish your project. Even buy an extra skein to make sure that you have enough. But when it comes to kettle dyed/hand dyed yarns, you have to be even more diligent. My mom has been complaining [...]
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Jan06
(Today’s post has nothing to do with fibers. So, skip as you wish.) I smiled when I saw these LunchBots at the health food store today. Why? They reminded me of the metal bento boxes we had while growing up in Taiwan. Each evening, leftovers are packed in tight into these metal boxes and tied [...]
Jan04
As I said in my last post, the CMF Superwash 3 ply in “The Beat Goes On” colorway wasn’t pleasant to knit as sock yarn. I did wear it for a couple of walks (purl side out), and it wasn’t too bad to wear, but my fingers were still cramped from knitting it on little [...]