Under the Weather

or rather under the influence of the weather, I have begun the annual ritual of preparing for Christmas, more specifically preparing my knitting plans for Christmas. Naturally, this involves trips to yarn stores and online yarn orders.
Notice I said “trips” to the yarn-store… Earlier this week I made my first foray out for Christmas [...]

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Whoa and Blerg and Y-ay

First off – Happy New Year!! (Only half a month behind!!)
The Whoa:
* I’m supposed to submit my thesis in less than 10 weeks!!
* We are moving to Moncton!!
For those of you unfamiliar with Canadian geography here is the map showing Toronto and Moncton (the distance is a mere 1,522km/946mi [...]

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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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Bitter Green Specs Update

Soo… the yarn is now skeined (on my handy but ever so s.l.o.w. niddy noddy), soaked (in SOAK no less), set (with much smashing against my shower wall) and now hangs in my shower in an attempt to dry (but as it is now chilly here this will likely take days).
I ended up with two [...]

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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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I have FO…

the first in a long while.

I just really love this picture…
Ace of Spades Mitts
Pattern: Alice’s Queen of Hearts Gloves
Yarn: Knit Picks Telemark in Cardinal and Black (one skein each 103yds/50gr)
Needles: Knit Picks nickle plated dpns, size 2.5mm
For: Christmas pressie
Size: one size fits… well I guess most women
Notes: I really liked the pattern, it knit up [...]

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Call Me Kate the Great

With mom away I get to run the house. This morning by 10AM, I had planned the menu for the week, sorted all the laundry, tidied up the freezer, and was at the grocery store (note to self – it opens at 8AM could have saved time if I’d known that).
By 1ish… I had:
*done the [...]

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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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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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300 yards

I’ve finished spinning and plying the purple! 

Specs:
2ply
laceweigh-c.30 wpi
approx. 300yds (yeah, figured out how to work the niddy noddy)
merino

I bet the zoom in really close feature is turned off… I’ll have to check that next time…
I’m now trying to figure out if I can get a shawl out of this, or if I need to find [...]

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