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ided to use for ellie s bed i warped across the entire width of my 32 loom but when i was winding the warp up on the paper paper is used to create an even tension in between layers of warp i realized my paper was about 1 1 2 shorter than the width of the warp i continued winding up the warp anyway which was a big mistake when i started weaving i decided to just ignore the ends that had the wonky tension and just weave the center bit this was incredibly awkward not to mention that for some reason the tension on the wonky warp was not really loose like i thought it would be instead the yarn was stretched so much i thought it was going to snap so after about 8 of this i was all screw it and just cut the piece off of the loom i wound up wasting a ton of yarn but that s all right i wasn t doing anything else with it anyway and i learned something new travis helped me put a new not as wide warp back on the loom and i m back weaving again of course after i got the new warp on i had an epiphany about how i want to try to actually construct the kitty bed i was originally thinking it would be a big pillow but now i think i may actually try to make it with foam walls around the edge of it that s going to make it more complicated and i ll probably wind up needing to weave another piece for the edge here s the crappy little piece of fabric from the aborted weave i used it today to make a small stuff owl here s an in progress shot it actually turned out to be a good thing that i made the weird piece of fabric because i have never tried sewing with handwoven before of course because my weft yarn is so thick the cut piece was fraying like crazy but now i have a little bit of experience with it and i have a better idea what to expect when i actually get to constructing the kitty bed two exciting things are coming up today and tomorrow well exciting if you re a tv and politics geek like me tonight is the return of the late night talk shows dave letterman s production company worldwide pants actually did get the deal struck with the writer s guild so dave and colin ferguson will be coming back on the air fully staffed with their writers yay jay leno conan o brien and jimmy kimmel are coming back sans writers boo and unfortunately jon stewart and stephen colbert are going to be coming back on the air too without writers boo although i m not sure what date they ll be back on the air anyway i know i m going to be watching letterman tonight go dave and dave s writers tomorrow night kicks off the crazy 2008 presidential primaries featuring iowa and their kooky caucus system so it looks like it s going to be a c span evening for me iowa fascinates me their caucus system is so bizarrely unlike any sort of political process i ve taken part in it s such a social event you can bargain and coerce to try to get votes you can go caucus without the slightest notion of who you re going to end up voting for it s nutty and since i m in the happy position of being okay with the democratic field sure there are candidates i d prefer more than others but on the whole i kind of like all of the democratic candidates i m going to be relatively stress free while watching it the republican field is a hot mess so i ll be enjoying a little bit of schadenfreude watching them the polls are all over the place i think i ve seen polls with clinton obama and edwards all in the lead and huckabee and romney have both been in first place with mccain starting to surge apparently the deeper hole giuliani digs the better mccain does and ron paul keeps pulling 20 million quarters out of nowhere who is giving this guy money it looks like tomorrow night is going to be fun i only wish i can remember enough of 2004 iowa s caucus night to come up with a drinking game if i hear anything that even approaches joe mentum i m going to start doing multiple shots good times update just found out that hillary clinton is going to make a surprise appearance on letterman tonight huckabee is going to be on leno in case anyone besides me cared crafty new year january 1 2008 yarnzombie 4 comments so i m a little bit behind i ve spent the last few days trying to get things organized for 2008 i think i m finally there if not i ll sort it out as i go i m not really the type to make resolutions because i know i inevitably break them in an embarrassingly short period of time this year though i m going to do thing a little bit differently to that end i m going to try to keep the following three things in mind 1 there s absolutely no point whatsoever in spending your fun time on something that sucks in life there s a lot of things you are obligated to do for a number of reasons to stay healthy you should probably go see a doctor once in a while to get a shiny new car you ve got to figure out loan paperwork etc but in your spare time in the time you set aside to do something for your own enjoyment there is no reason why you should work on something that doesn t make you happy start knitting something and discover you hate the pattern or the yarn stop working on it pick out a new pattern rip out the yarn and use it for something else but don t slog through doing something out of a sense of obligation when you really should be using this precious time that you have on making something that you actually enjoy 2 use what you have i know i have a lot of craft related crap this year i intend on using a lot of it if i m not using something after a while i need to get rid of it because otherwise it s just taking up space 3 and going along with number 2 less is actually in most cases more the more you have to deal with the less likely it is that things will receive the proper amount of attention an analogy gardening travis and i always loved the idea of having a garden but the last few years that we had one it was completely out of control and wretched so i was thinking about when we had the best garden of our lives and it turned out to be the first year we tried having one it was smallish but in an area of our yard that we were in all of the time it was manageable and when we moved to our current house with our much bigger yard we tried going a lot bigger for our garden we had the space so why not use it well i ll tell you why the garden was placed in a poor location it needed a lot of watering due to the fact that it got direct sunlight all day the garden was placed away from a hose so it was a complete pain in the butt to water i planted a ton of different seeds didn t mark locations for anything and had no idea what was coming up where lettuce bolted before i was even able to identify that they were lettuce plants things like there it was too much in too crappy of a spot so this year after a multi year garden hiatus i think travis and i are going to give it another go a smaller more precise better located go instead of getting 14 varieties of tomato seeds we ll probably go out and buy 1 tomato plant this spring i want to grow only what i know we ll eat 2 kohlrabis a week perfect and what we really enjoy growing sunflowers and sorghum hopefully in severely scaling things back we ll have a lot better result besides the above 3 rules that i hope will be constantly hovering around my head in the coming year there s another big new thing i m going to try doing i started a new blog an annex to this one called craft bang boom basically i have very specific crafting goals that i want to accomplish this year and i m going to use craft bang boom as a way of keeping track of what i ve done it will have mainly pictures of fos there and not much commentary at least that s the plan but we ll see how it evolves after thinking about what i wanted to do this year it just seemed to make sense for me to keep track of all of it in a separate place than this blog mainly because yarnzombie would get all cluttered up with daily sketchings of mice so if you re interested you can check out the craft annex and see in frightening detail what i ve been doing hop below the fold with me for the other half of this post which unlike the first has shiny pictures continue reading crafty new year my edible christmas december 28 2007 yarnzombie 7 comments as i ve said on here before my family is all about the food besides our traditional christmas eve roast beef sandwiches and zapp s fest we added a couple of new food related events to the agenda the first was waffle night hosted by brian nikki and tyler there were waffles with from scratch fruit toppings and there was the bacon buffet featuring three different types of bacon dad brought over his items for luxury food night since we were already going to be having a ton of food on christmas eve these were some kind of odd nougat y italian candies on christmas eve we went over to my grandpa s house and had chili some of brian s cheese ball cookies dip and nut roll after that we went back to my parents house for our roast beef sandwiches and the rest of our luxury food night brian brought over cheese curds mmm squeaky and travis had his small wheel of sheep s milk basque cheese to share everyone liked the cheese even tyler who said it was the second best cheese he had ever tasted i wound up getting some of the peppermint marshmallows from whole foods as my luxury item tyler liked those a lot my mom went all out and had ordered ice cream from jeni s in columbus jeni s is a small gourmet ice cream shop in north market in downtown columbus and my mom and i had tried some of the poached pear riesling sorbet from there in september it was the best frozen treat either of us had ever tasted in our lives anyway i was completely overwhelmed that she had thought to pick that as her luxury food we had five flavors to sample the pear riesling belgian milk chocolate pictured below forest berry sorbet dark chocolate cocoa zinfandel and spiced pecan praline i thought the pear riesling and the forest berry went especially well together and the belgian milk chocolate was quite good smeared on a peppermint marshmallow other food related goodness brian and nikki got my parents and me and travis big food gift baskets for christmas we love food baskets and so do my parents tyler really likes foreign cookies so travis and i loaded up tyler s presents with a bunch of cookies we found at world market in addition to the cookies we also got him a small personal sized chorizo sausage tyler loves chorizo so we had a lot of good food for christmas seriously i weighed myself before and after food on christmas eve and there was a difference of four pounds mmm four pounds of really good food hope everyone else had a happy holiday filled with good eats these are a few of my favorite things december 22 2007 yarnzombie 7 comments i ve been busy the past few days getting my christmas stuff ready to go i actually did wind up making some fabric bags to put my presents in i think i made 6 altogether i thought they came out pretty decent and i used up about a yard and a half of fabric it was nice to take the sewing machine out for a drive too i m looking forward to doing more sewing in the next year i ve taken about a 2 1 2 year hiatus from sewing and quilting which i think i needed to do now that i ve had some time apart i think i have a new perspective and different goals regarding sewing than i had in the past but more about that after christmas i started knitting a pair of socks out of the amysbabies yarn that i got from her etsy shop here s the yarn but no in progress sock picture because i m going all drama queen and extending the anticipation i also spun up the fun roving ball set i had combed up the other day from the miscellaneous fibers travis and i picked out it s called juvenile delinquent it s spun for the most part really low twist and has fun random mohair locks trying to escape from the skein i had over 6 1 2 ounces and about 200 yards of it i say had because after the yarn was finished blocking i immediately got a warp on my loom and started weaving with it about 4 hours later i had a new scarf it s very glam rock the mohair gives it these nice random shiny areas and the scarf is almost ridiculously wide 11 i love it ellie loves it too when i had it on the table to try to photograph it she kept jumping up and laying on it also you can t really see it here but i m wearing a new shirt travis got me for christmas he got it from an etsy buyer called look for fiddleheads here s the design on my shirt i love it i am all about etsy and am going to try to honor the buy or make in my case handmade pledge as much as possible next year travis and i leave for our christmastacular family adventure tomorrow so probably very little if any blogging for the next 4 or 5 days hope everyone has a happy holiday season ps wish me luck god willing i ll be hitting mass ave knit shop s post christmas sale all yarn is at least 30 off travis and i accidentally found ourselves in the midst of it 2 years ago i had no idea there would be a sale going on and i think travis died a little bit inside but i m prepared this time and my only goals are malabrigo lots of it in almost solid colors for colorwork and some new needles let s see what actually makes it home with me profiles in courage bucky bear december 18 2007 yarnzombie 5 comments i found myself cleaning out my fabric closet today yes sad to say i have enough fabric to justify having an entire closet devoted to it i m culling the fabric herd so to speak my mom is going to start quilting again after the holidays and i offered her a bunch of my fabric since i m currently not using it so that s part of her christmas present anyway i m going through the fabric closet and pulling stuff for her and after that s done i kind of get carried away and start going through the little bit of non fabric stuff that s in that closet as well and who do i run across but bucky bear travis and i in our non married life wound up accumulating a lot of stuffed animals a lot were ones that i had from when i was a kid i never played with dolls only stuff animals and we d randomly add another to the club mostly turtles or manatees it seems but we both wound up having similar creepy stuffed animals from childhood mine was a bear that i think originally belonged to my brother and travis was a beaver at some point the creepy bear and creepy beaver met and we dubbed them bucky bear and bucky beaver respectively both animals were creepy and odd yet still somewhat endearing we figured they were responsible for some creepy and odd events and we tried not to piss them off it was kind of like an anthony is going to wish you into the cornfield situation we re sure bucky bear and bucky beaver hold mysterious and strange powers and i want to keep on their good side so it was with some dismay when i came across bucky bear at the bottom of the closet appearing that he had somehow contracted the mange i don t know if he had gotten damp at some point and there was mold on him or what but it was quite disturbing and kind of gros...