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not only was my school demanding my complete and undivided attention every spare moment i had i also had to fulfill other priorities which left little to no time for knitting i will say this did not prevent me from increasing my stash since buying yarn and knitting related items via internet takes a lot less time and effort than the actual knitting itself sacrificing knitting these past couple weeks has paid off though i can brag i have successfully completed a mpa program with flying colors and my diploma will soon hang from a wall yay for me now let me clarify that some knitting has taken place since i last posted how else was i going to stay sane during the last few weeks of the hectic semester thank goodness sarah s yarns had an awesome sell on art yarns regal silk because there is no better therapy than silky goodness flowing through your fingers while stressing to get an exit paper done my four hanks of silk wanted to be nothing else but a clapotis although it s hard to tell i m almost done with the wrap and i know it would have been completed last wends while i sat through three full days of the most boring class i ever had the misfortune of experiencing my god i wanted to run out of there screaming like a mad woman but that s the sacrifice i made in order to become a registered accessibility specialist in texas the only positive note was that i took advantage of my stay in austin to pay my first ever visit to the hill country weavers omg what a place room upon room of colorful fiber goodness their selection is impressive to say the least i even had the pleasure of holding a teeny tiny ball of qiviut in my hand soft doesn t even begin to describe it i quickly backed away from it for fear irrationality took hold of me and i had one of the salesladies ring it up one day i ll return and become the proud owner of this luxurious fiber until then happy knitting and stash building to all posted by bufanditas 7 24 am 2 comments tuesday april 17 2007 salsa recipe salsa guisada or salsa borracha since i don t have time to knit but have to cook no matter what i am sharing my favorite salsa recipe this recipe calls for fresh ingredients and tastes great over breakfast eggs grilled steak or freshly cooked pinto beans and corn tortillas you can use white yellow or green onions and the amount of jalapeño used will depend on your taste especially since the heat of the pepper will differ from jalapeño to jalapeño the salsa borracha version substitutes beer for water hence to borracha or drunk label and is equally as good ingredients 1 to 2 tsp cooking oil ½ onion coarsely chopped ½ to 2 jalapeños thinly sliced crosswise 2 garlic cloves diced 1 large tomato coarsely chopped salt to taste water or tecate beer similar beer for the salsa borracha heat enough oil to cover to bottom of a small saucepan over medium high heat add onions and sauté until soft stir in jalapeño slices and sauté 3 to 5 minutes to soften add diced garlic sauté for 1 minute add tomato and salt stir and pour enough water or beer to just cover ingredients bring to a boil turn down heat to medium and continue to boil until tomato is cooked through and begins to thicken about 10 15 minutes serve warm on the side or pour over your favorite entrée serves 4 posted by bufanditas 12 50 pm 1 comments a quick report school has been keeping me busy these couple of weeks i ve had little time to knit and even less time to post my knitting stash building progress i did manage to knit a pair of socks for socktopia s march theme but will have nothing to submit for the month of april even though i have the perfect yarn for orange you glad i didn t say bananna oh well the summer should be a good time to put the yarn into good use dance dance revolution socktopia s march theme brought to mind flashes of vibrant and electrifying colors regia s 6ply in crazy color seemed the perfect choice for these socks i ll confess i didn t pay attention to the first sock i had completed so half way through the leg i realized i knitted the cuff in 1 rib instead of 2 oh well i was on a deadline and not about to frog the entire sock with this yarn the 1 rib worked a lot better anyway and will make a note of it for future reference please excuse the lousy image but i had been wearing the socks before photographing them hence their stretched out look regia 6 ply was nice to work with what really stood out in this yarn was its scent no other yarn i have worked with has given off such a woolly and comforting aroma i would buy this yarn in the future just for olfactory pleasure even though it did satisfy my sense of touch and sight as well did i read somewhere that yarn was being scented for aroma therapy purposes can you imagine knitting while the calming scent of lavender or mint surrounds you not only would the rhythmic motion of knitting soothe you so would your favorite fragrance wishing you happy knitting and stash building posted by bufanditas 5 51 am 1 comments monday march 12 2007 week 10 of 2007 in review on knitting slow is the word for the week since it pretty much sums up the knitting action that took place apart from having bo these which were put into good use as soon as they were done nothing new has been started and only managed a few rounds of dayflower i predict this week will be no better since not only does my exit paper need some tlc i must also work on a 10 page take home exam due next week which the prof assigned over spring break so much for a spring break filled with excessive knitting nope that will have to wait for some other time if i am to graduate in may as planned my take since there isn t much else to report let me provide my impression of knitpicks bare fingering weigth 1 the price can t be beat and the chance to play experiment with dying is such a perk really you ll feel bad if you mess up the colors but for less than 5 the feeling won t last that long 2 the softness factor is there bare felt good to touch and was a breeze to knit with i experienced zero splitting breaking or unexpected knots i was a little disappointed upon closer inspection that the yarn does have a little halo effect for some reason i was expecting a smoother yarn 3 while the yarn felt nice and toasty on my feet it did not feel as soft as i expected call me crazy but the socks felt a little crunchy when i stepped on them could it be the bit on nylon in the material the tight gauge or am i being oversensitive i also noticed at the end of the day that the socks had stretched a tad and had a slight fuzzy factor being only the second pair of socks that i knit and wear i really don t know if this is normal enlighten me if you can 4 the yarn is superwash and it did ok during my washing machine test for testing purposes the socks went into the regular cycle with warm water the socks came out fuzzier but it s nothing a sweater stone won t fix they retained their shape and gauge in the future i ll test a swatch in the gentle cycle to see how they do yes i know hand knits should be either washed in the gentle cycle or by hand but i wanted to push the limits and yes i should ve sacrificed a swatch instead of my socks but curiosity got the better of me verdict 4 out of 5 dpn s i would not hesitate to buy this yarn again not only is the price reasonable the fun dye able factor makes it a big plus on stash building did i mention that i lost one of the pony pearl dpn s i was using while knitting my second sock i lost it in a blink of an eye somewhere in my sofa i looked high and low for it but nada luckily i was still left with 4 so i was able to keep knitting but for some reason i prefer knitting with 5 a few weeks ago i was able to score my first sets of pony pearl s for 50 off at my lys not only did i like the price i liked the fact that they were 6 long which made them perfect for knitting socks after sacrificing the lost one to my hungry sofa i thought it would be a good idea to head back to the lys with the hope that i would still find these clearance needles in stock as you can see from the image they did i manage to find the last set of size 0 s in 5 after meticulously searching the box they were in for over 10 minutes who knows what the staff and customers thought of me as i dug and re dug through that box but i was determined to find what i was looking for in the process i figured i should get a back up set for the 2 s i already have since loosing one is always a possibility plus got the last set of 0 s in 8 because you never know when you ll need those one day i ll knit a sweater in the round using chunky yarn that justifies the purchase of the 13 size 19 dpn s in the mean time they just add interest to the needle collection oh yes that is a skein of sirdar snuggly plus some interweave press word play magnets which were clearance items as well all this as the result of one little needle tell me is this justifiable until next time happy knitting and stash building to all posted by bufanditas 9 08 am 4 comments thursday march 08 2007 shake shake skake shake your booties or anklets or whatever you call them here lay my short and sweet bed of roses submission for february s socktopia theme in this case i ve managed to kill two birds with one stone whether two themes in one pair of socks is allowed or not doesn t matter because i feel i ve accomplished my own objectives about the booties pattern the inspiration came from pom squad and the leg heel and toe came from embossed leaves since i didn t want to distract from the yarn s coloring i decided to knit in plain old stockinette for the foot yarn approx 200 yds of knitpicks bare hand dyed by yours truly with kool aid in lime lemon berry blue and by accident tropical punch feel free to read about this little mistake in my previous post needles us size 0 verdict i found these socks a lot more enjoyable to knit than my first pair maybe it was the different yarn or maybe the anticipation of seeing how my colors fell into place i really digged the little details of these socks the heel and gusset are easy to do plus look nice and clean notice the way the gusset came out on these socks the stitching has some definition to it unfortunately i only managed that look on one side the other side looks like this my goal is to find out a way to make both sides of this area to look the same and get a symmetrical looking sock i did cheat a little in the rejoining of the leg and heel since i hate weaving in loose ends instead of cutting the yarn at the point where the turn heel is completed in order to start the pickup of stitches at the flap i continued using the method used in knit dorm socks this modification worked out well for me the forming and finishing of the toe is awesome i ll likely use this technique again since it gives a very clean result and there is zero grafting involved yay i m off to plan the next pair of socks for this month posted by bufanditas 8 16 am 2 comments monday march 05 2007 week 9 of 2007 in review on knitting knit knit frog knit knit frog that s been the theme for the past couple of weeks luckily it s been more knitting than frogging and a little bit of dyeing as a bonus let me start with my wip the dayflower shawl has progressed in baby steps since i first started there have been a few little bumps along the road but nothing to justify frogging more than a few stitches back i ve been lucky to catch my errors sooner than later and the ease of the pattern really helps with that at this point i am 2 3 s done with the second repeat and am truly enjoying the pattern here are some things i ve learned along the way my stitching became very loose at one point after moving on to circulars i just couldn t control the silk s tension since it is so slippery as it is i am a very loose knitter and have to go down at least two needle sizes to get the correct gauge i hadn t tried wrapping the yarn twice around my finger because past experience proved useless not only did the yarn not move i d end up with a blue finger in an act of desperation i tried the double wrap with the silk omg it actually worked the silk s slipperiness helped it flow even with the tighter tension caused by the two wraps around my finger after knitting a couple of rounds this way the pattern is looking so much better and i am more excited and motivated than ever to keep on knitting this baby stitch markers are really needed for this pattern and believe me i gave in and place one after every repeat now i can tell where i m at and what i should be knitting plus if i make a mistake i can easily locate the error and fix it stitch markers quickly become a necessity when you knit in the round and have a lot of repeats present socktopia s february theme is almost due and i got into gear only two weeks ago i dyed 2 hanks knitpicks bare once hank i wanted pink and purplish in honor of valentine s day and the other one i planned for shades of green and some blue for march s it ain t easy being green theme well i got the results i planned for pink purple hank the green blue was turning out nice until i got a pack of kool aid i thought was blue i froze when i dumped some of the contents into the pot where my green blue masterpiece was soaking omg the water was turning red omg the yarn was soaking that red like it was starving for color omg my green socks weren t meant to be oh well life is like a box of chocolates waiting patiently for the yarn to dry and be run through the winder closeup of my little cakes ready to be knit into some toasty socks notice how sparse the green became after that little hank decided it loved red kool aid while my yarn dried and waited to be wound i selected ik s winter 05 embossed leaves socks for my short and sweet socktopia submission i modified the pattern to make ankle socks unfortunately once again my loooooose knitting was an obstacle i was able to finally get the correct tension halfway through the sock but at that point i did not feel like frogging and starting the same pattern over again instead i opted for something different even though i loved knitting the pattern i got my to be green blue yarn and decided to knit some booties instead using the basics in the embossed leaves i was sticking to the short and sweet theme as i knitted up the bootie i liked the mistake yarn more and more i couldn t wait to see what the next color effect would be produced and the little hint of green was a lovely touch imo a bed of roses comes to mind when i see the yarn knitted up i m ready to start the gusset and hope to be finish with the second bootie by the end of this week on stash building i couldn t resist discontinuedbrandnameyarn com offer of 100 bamboo at the price they had so i broke down and ordered the lilac all i have to say is that the color is exquisite i hope everyone took advantage of this offer and has some of this pretty yarn in their stash until next time happy knitting and stash building to all posted by bufanditas 7 19 am 4 comments monday februa...