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esist buying more roving from her now finally in an effort to fill up my already scarce free time even more i ve started dyeing fiber nuttnbunny tipped me off to a fiber swap club on ravelry the swap lasts for three months we were put into groups of four and each month we send 4 oz of fiber to one other person in the group i joined and have used it as an excuse to start dyeing which is something i ve been wanting to try for awhile i just mailed my first swap package yesterday so i can show what s inside of it yet lest i ruin the element of surprise but here are some dye experiments on alpaca 2 oz of combed alpaca top kettle dyed i call this one northern lights 1 oz of combed alpaca top handpainted steamed mermaid the colors in this got a little more blended than i intended but that s why it s an experiment i think i should have steamed it in something a little flatter i used a cheap colander that i bought at salvation army but i think a lot of the dye pooled down and mixed luckily the colors blend well i spun this up the other night to see what it looks like the mini skein is drying now more details soon my alpaca top is some natural gray fiber i bought at piedmont yarn it s called handspinner s dream from alpaca with a twist it s really lovely stuff and it comes in a whole range of natural alpaca fleece colors it takes the color wonderfully and it is making me seriously consider doing something crazy like adopting an alpaca 20 june 2008 stuff i ve finished lately posted by katie under knitting spinning tags finished handspun lace sock 2 comments look mystery stole 3 yeah the one from last summer i finished the knitting in march but just blocked it recently so it could go on display at piedmont yarn go see the entire flickr set here noro lace ribbon scarf just in time for summer at least it s nice to look at one helical striped sock a la grumperina for my sister in place of mittens aspen merino tencel blend spunky eclectic club fiber from last august my first ever 2 oz 290 yards fingering weight single so gorgeous spun from this awesome green two ply spun from a hand carded batt purchased from funky carolina 3 oz 189 yards worsted weight two ply i love this yarn so much it s ridiculous 23 may 2008 i never get bored posted by katie under james knitting tags blanket fairisle hat pigeonroof purlbee rayon shrug socks 2 comments a few things i ve been working on these were so close to being done before i went to japan all i had left was a toe i wasn t about to bring a project that was almost done with airplane incompatible needles so i finished them right after we got back the yarn is pigeonroof studios sock yarn that i bought at piedmont yarn i would kill to get some roving from pigeonroof but the yarn is almost as good the base yarn is strong but soft and has a nice sheen and the short random bursts of color make for interesting knitting and almost no pooling oh and the pattern is garter rib from sensational knitted socks last summer i started making granny squares for the color bar blanket from the stitch n bitch happy hooker i completed the squares in a few colors and then they sat in a bag for several months lately i ve been in the mood to make some more especially during the heat wave we had last week i m almost through half the colors just need to finish up this blue there was a sale on plymouth encore at webs so i got most of the other colors i need if i don t completely lose momentum i hope to finish the squares and sew it all together over the summer so i will have an awesome afghan for fall this pattern came out last month over at purl bee i instantly wanted to knit it even though i ve been queuing patterns and accumulating yarn for several bigger sweater projects i can t bring myself to start any of them right now this shrug however is small enough and wearable in the summer so i finally decided to go find yarn and cast on our bamboo selection is a bit lacking at piedmont yarn so i went to article pract on sunday there were several bamboo and cotton blend selections but i couldn t find a yarn i liked in a color that was inspiring and wearable or if i did there wasn t enough in the store like a certain cotton tencel blend that i fell in love with i went into the sale room and ended up coming out with several skeins of berroco glace a rayon ribbon yarn in an amazing deep indigo color i ll admit it s the color that did me in but i m pretty happy with how it s knitting up i just finished the first sleeve and now i m on the back i m trying to knit it fast and keep momentum because if i finish it it will definitely get worn this summer james requested a hat last fall i may have mentioned it at some point on here it is to have mushrooms snails and squirrels there will be earflaps and we found some awesome buttons that will be integrated into the earflaps somehow either decoratively or functionally it is not yet clear i did a little swatching a few months ago and started to cast on but the size 1 needles and 190 stitches were sort of uninspiring i also realized more planning was necessary i needed to draft an entire chart of all of the fair isle components rather than just trying to wing it i have been putting it off for several months now but the other night i got motivated and drew up this chart it looks like there will be 6 pattern repeats 3 repeats of the chart for a total of 180 stitches my chart is a conglomeration of several adrian bizilia charts the mushrooms snails and swirls and the squirrels come from a mitten pattern pdf the snails are actually significantly altered to fit into a smaller number of stitches i have yet to start the knitting but now that i have this chart i should be able to get at least to the crown decreases pretty easily i know i will be using a provisional cast on so i can deal with the earflaps later on if james is lucky he might have this hat to wear next autumn or winter those needles are still mighty small 18 may 2008 silk stripes and weekends posted by katie under knitting tags cowl moebius silk socks stripes leave a comment i knit most of this silk cowl while i was in japan i d had the yarn for over a year something i had purchased on ebay but i never knew what to do with it but when i saw the butterfly moebius pattern in clara parkes a knitter s book of yarn the world of cowls opened up for me the pattern only took 275 yards of yarn and i had plenty for this cowl i brought some of the yarn along on our trip hoping it would be enough but i ended up wanting it a little bit wider so i finished it off after we returned home i was so happy with it that i decided to make my mom one as well as a mother s day gift i made hers from exactly two skeins of hempathy about 300 yards unfortunately i forgot to get a picture of that when i finished it but it turned out so different and so lovely the stitch pattern in the book is double seed stitch but you could substitute other simple knit purl stitch patterns just as easily i love this pattern because it really shows off the yarn perfect for handspun i m sure you will see more of these last night after letting the idea brew in my head for a few weeks i finally cast on for some striped socks for my sister you may remember back at christmas when i finished only one mitten as her gift well when i miss a deadline for gift knitting i tend to lose momentum i had started the second mitten but as i got my comfortable with stranded knitting my tension loosened up and the second mitten was definitely coming out bigger than the first i hid it away in the bottom of my knitting basket for awhile and when i saw my sister at easter i asked her if she still even wanted the mittens she said socks would be more useful to her and since i was pretty much over those mittens i happily dismissed them from my mind after seeing the awesome spiraling stripe socks that grumperina has been working on i decided i would use some of the leftover yarn and do socks in this manner here are the beginnings i think they are coming along fabulously i would like to finish them in a somewhat timely manner even though i know she has no use for wool socks in the middle of summer in new york hopefully they will not languish for too long and hopefully i will have enough of the fuschia yarn to knit both socks without having to frog the lone finished mitten because even if it s not useful it does look quite beautiful and it would be a shame and a pain in the ass to rip it out yesterday we went to check out the new borders that just opened up in alameda and i bought weekend knitting with the gift card that was burning a hole in my wallet there were a few other books i wanted that they didn t have in stock but weekend knitting has been on my list and after looking through it again i decided it was a must have my most desired pattern in there is the brioche stitch neckwarmer and hat and scarf but i realized there are also two veronik avery patterns both of which i would like to make and after i showed james the backgammon bag it was a done deal for some reason ravelry seems to be down right now which totally sucks because it s the weekend and i need to be getting my fix before it s monday again and i have to go to work i guess i ll just have to keep myself busy with all this knitting i keep starting 6 may 2008 more about my ashford traditional posted by katie under spinning tags ashford fiberclub handspun spunkyeclectic wheel 3 comments i was sad to be away from my spinning wheel when i was in japan i know life can be so difficult after i finished pie i started spinning some mystery purple fiber that larkin gave me with the wheel i was spinning thinner about a fingering weight single so the going was quite a bit slower when we got back from our trip i finished up the purple singles and then got out the remaining 2 oz of my spunky club goblin eyes romney the first two ounces were used in spindle experimentation spun pretty thin and navajo plied but i think the whole mess was overspun because it was more like twine than yarn i didn t really enjoy that spinning experience very much so i spun up the rest of it on the wheel trying to match it with the purple singles toward the end i got a little lazy and the singles became sliiiightly thicker but i m pretty happy with how it came out after i plied the two together purple goblin 277 yards 3 95 oz sport ish weight i love all the purple and because it wasn t so overspun this time it s a bit softer and even more so after washing it s not supersoft but i m considering trying to make slipper socks from it if i have enough toe up will definitely be the way to go here s a not so great picture of my wheel i plan to take a better one later as you can see it s been well loved everything seems to work perfectly fine the wood is just a bit worn and nicked in places especially on that horizontal piece across the front the tension nob for the brake band looks like a dog chewed on it and i plan to order a new one at some point the scotch tension also is just a piece of string tied to a smaller piece of fishing line rather than springs like it should be but it seems to work ok i ll replace that when i get around to ordering my ashford maintenance kit the drive band was just a black cotton string but i fancied it up with lanyard cord i was looking for pony bead lacing but beverly s didn t have it i got some green sparkly lanyard cord the flat kind and managed to melt the ends together enough to stick it works ok but i m going to get the lacing next time i m at michael s it has connectors so you don t have to melt anything and you can change it out really easily i also need to screw in more cup hooks on the flyer because they are only on one side at some point i ll need to get another flyer too probably the 3 speed but maybe the jumbo because this traditional is old enough that it only has one ratio so far it hasn t been a problem but as i get more experience i think i will appreciate the added versatility i started spinning merino for the first time a few nights ago i m working on spunky club s march fiber mud season it s not as hard to spin as i thought it would be though i think it s going much better on the wheel that it would have on the spindle the merino is sooooooooooo soft and sort of like spinning clouds i m spinning a pretty fine single and i m hoping to get a fingering weight yarn from it the colors are coming out really nice as they get more spread out and soften up the more i do it the more i realize how addicting this spinning thing is 5 may 2008 maker faire posted by katie under bay area adventures tags awesome crafts makerfaire science leave a comment oh poor neglected blog i didn t meant to ignore you for so long life has been busy my main excuse is that i was in japan for most of april i kept an online travel journal while we were there if you happen to be interested in our day to day adventures you can visit my yahoo travel journal i certainly haven t been neglecting the knitting and spinning but that will be the subject of another post this post is about the awesomeness of maker faire the yarn harlot was there on saturday but since i was working at the yarn shop that day i couldn t go i enjoy reading her blog but i have never read any of her books and i have never felt a strong desire to go to one her events so i wasn t really disappointed instead we went on sunday and look who we got to see instead that s adam savage from mythbusters he talked about his career history starting out in theatre set design and special effects working for ilm as a prop and set builder on all sorts of awesome movies working for a toy company and finally getting the gig on mythbusters he didn t talk about mythbusters much he mostly explained how he is crazy obsessed with making extremely detailed replicas of movie props like the zf 1 gun in the fifth element which he has been working on for 10 years and he still hasn t finished it and making his own maltese falcon as seen in the film noir classic starring humphrey bogart it was really awesome but now we know for sure that he is absolutely insane in a really good way the bazaar bizarre craft fair was really good too albeit extremely crowded it was hard to stop and look at stuff or cross the aisle to look at a different booth because of the constant river of people there was a great selection of stuff from a lot of cool designers and crafters james bought me a few belated birthday presents and i bought for myself an awesome skein of dream in color smooshy at the imagiknit booth i was too tired to get pictures last night but hopefully i will do that today and i can properly credit the crafters that i supported my sister scored at the swap o rama rama in the same building she found a plain white tank and then had it screenprinted for free there were also sewing machines for public use so you could alter your new to you clothes right there we ate corndogs james got a foot long monster corndog my sister and i opted for t...