Apparently…

Sock Blockers aren’t just photographic aids. Up until this weekend, that is all I had used mine for – giving socks shape in pictures, then I dediced that the Carolinas needed to be blocked and wow! I have been so wrong. I fully appreaciate the wonder that is blocking lace, but really couldn’t [...]

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Third Time’s a Charm

Didn’t work for the socks… didn’t like where the magical mystical tour was going… but I seem to have finally found a pattern that my Fleece Artist Merino Sock 2/6 wants to be when it grows up.
I cast on the Diamond Fantasy Shawl (by Sivia Harding) over the weekend, looking for something harder than socks [...]

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Arabian Knights 0.5 – Blocked

Last night I stayed up (watching movies – Red Dragon – quite good, love Norton) until I finished the first half of the MDAN shawl.
Now it is blocking. It is actually probably a good thing I chose to block this half on its own – it already takes up most of the bed it would [...]

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I plied and plied

and then suddenly… it was done.
I have finally finished spinning and plying so here are the specs -
Bitter Green
Fiber: 100% merino
Colour: Hand-dyed shades of green and blue-green
Amount: 4oz of fiber
From: a ravelry destash
Yield: 2 nearly full bobbins
Spun as: lace weight 2 ply on the highest ratio on my Minstrel
Yardage: not yet calculated… stay tuned

The colours [...]

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Has it really been 2 months already…

So, yeah – bad blogger, no cookie.
The knitting has been suffering from neglect (as has the spinning) but the sewing machine has had a strenuous workout.
I’ve made:
* 2 dresses for me, same style (1812, scoop neck, empire waist) but one is pink with white sleeves while the other is dark blue in front with green/blue [...]

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There is too much, let me sum up

1. Spent last week (last Saturday to today) at a cottage up in the Muskokas.  The cottage was lovely, the lake was lovely, but I am so incredibly not a lake person.  Give me a swimming pool (heated) (not to mention my internet address- I will never catch up) and keep the bugs.  I did, [...]

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Sox and Pats

I have finished another pair of socks!  My Noro Kueryon Sock RPMs came off the needles today (yeah!), it is however, far to warm to put them on my feet – but they look great on the sock blockers.  I still have between 1/4 and 1/3 of the ball left.  Overall I was really pleased [...]

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Just Keep Spinning

My week is almost over, and I’m actually a bit disappointed.  I rather liked having cooking, cleaning, and laundry as my serious objectives (I’m dreading having to go back to my thesis…)
On the fiber front, this week was really quite productive. I finished all of the Barber Pole Blues, and the Purple Haze, I have [...]

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Approximately

I can proudly report that: most of the laundry is done (I’m down to the last duvet and whatever has accumulated in the last day and a half).
The pie met with mixed reviews, A. for whom it was gluten free really liked it, Dad also claimed to like it, and the rest of us ate [...]

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Fee Fie FO

I went on a bit of a finishing jag, so I have now finished:

Baby Cardigan for my god-daughter.
Pattern: Baby Cardigan from Stings and Sealing Wax. 
Yarn: Sirdar Snuggly DK in Stone.

Socks for me (and this puts me -finally- at 3 pairs in my sock quest).
Pattern: Simply Ginny.
Yarn: Hand-dyed/painted from Sally Comes Unraveled.
 

Maid Marian Shawl (also for [...]

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