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12.28.2009
11.19.2009
11.10.2009
11.05.2009
10.19.2009
rhinebeck the second
The day started out drizzly and cold and finished just cold. Perfect weather to pile on the handknits! I wore a tan Divine Hat (my fave hat pattern at the moment), a purple & green Malabrigo Darkside Cowl (first time wearing it!), purple, blue & green Fetching, and handknit socks that noone beside Sarah saw 'cuz they were in my boots. Sarah rocked another of my Divine Hats, and some wristwarmers that I'd crocheted last year. She forgot her scarf home, but I saw it today and it's very pretty. Gryffinitter wore handknit socks and a handknit-by-someone-else shawl - both also pretty.
We went to The Fold first so I could get my STR fix. Last year at Rhinebeck Clidonia introduced me to STR , so I had to go back, right? I got a pattern (inside out socks) and a couple of skeins of the mill ends - one is apparently a christmas edition but if my goishe radar wasn't tripped, I think the xmas tie-in is subtle enough that I can still use the yarn :)
The authors were also in that building (B), and can I say that I was really disappointed this year? Last year we had the Yarn Harlot and a LOT of other knitting book authors. Including the other Knitbot who was awesome. This year it seemed like 1/3 of the books weren't even knitting books! Lily Chin was the "big name" - and she's cool, but the table had a sign that she'd be there at 12:15, so we didn't stick around 2 hours to meet her.
Next Sarah and I went to Building C and Building A and Gryffinitter hung out with an old college friend for a bit. At 12 we hit the Ravelry meetup. We chatted with Erica, who might be my favorite Rav staffer even if she's technically off the staff, and her husband, Jess's brother, who is also very awesome. Frecklebrother hooked us up with buttons and we all chatted a while. Then we took a photo with Jess and Casey and went someplace warm and dry.
Back in Building C, Sarah talked me into some sock yarn and in revenge I talked her into a skein, too. Gryffinitter made sure nobody bought an inferior wheel, and I talked her out of a sweet deal on a 4' loom. Her husband would've been angry, so I pointed out that either she or it would fit in my car to go back to Queens, but not both.
We went to the Horticulture building next, where Gryffinitter bought a much-smaller-than-4-feet loom. Sarah and I punked out and ate lunch - not as good as what Carma packed for MDS&W, let me tell you! Gryffinitter was still at it inside when we finished :) Then we dropped our stuff at the car and hit the Holiday Yarns booth to see the Tsock Tsarina's kits. I got the beer socks kit, and I have my eye on the margheurita socks next. Gryffinitter went straight to Carolina Homespun, Sarah & I detoured to Sheep Incognito & Creatively Dyed yarns and met her there. Gryffinitter taught me what a Wanda is (and talked me into a couple, of course). Sarah & I found a great deal on some Noro silk yarn at Cadogan across the aisle.
At some point Sarah got a skein of alpaca that she wore as a cowl for the rest of the day.
Gryffinitter tried out this cute wheel for us.
It was really squeeky.
Sarah won our Scavenger Hunt, which was to find a copy of The Joy of Sox so we could see Emma's/Ann's Snow Bunny pattern!
(Please note the Darkside Cowl keeping my neck toasty warm.)
On the way out we hit one of the food booths for donuts and hot cider - although Sarah was good and just bought 2 apples. That's willpower!
It was a looooooong day.
Speaking of pretty, the trees were all changing colors and stuff... gorgeous!
See that white tent on the left in the photo above? That's a hot chocolate stand. Gryffinitter saw this in their tent, and thought it was the coolest thing:
that's a LOT of cocoa powder!
We went to The Fold first so I could get my STR fix. Last year at Rhinebeck Clidonia introduced me to STR , so I had to go back, right? I got a pattern (inside out socks) and a couple of skeins of the mill ends - one is apparently a christmas edition but if my goishe radar wasn't tripped, I think the xmas tie-in is subtle enough that I can still use the yarn :)
The authors were also in that building (B), and can I say that I was really disappointed this year? Last year we had the Yarn Harlot and a LOT of other knitting book authors. Including the other Knitbot who was awesome. This year it seemed like 1/3 of the books weren't even knitting books! Lily Chin was the "big name" - and she's cool, but the table had a sign that she'd be there at 12:15, so we didn't stick around 2 hours to meet her.
Next Sarah and I went to Building C and Building A and Gryffinitter hung out with an old college friend for a bit. At 12 we hit the Ravelry meetup. We chatted with Erica, who might be my favorite Rav staffer even if she's technically off the staff, and her husband, Jess's brother, who is also very awesome. Frecklebrother hooked us up with buttons and we all chatted a while. Then we took a photo with Jess and Casey and went someplace warm and dry.
Back in Building C, Sarah talked me into some sock yarn and in revenge I talked her into a skein, too. Gryffinitter made sure nobody bought an inferior wheel, and I talked her out of a sweet deal on a 4' loom. Her husband would've been angry, so I pointed out that either she or it would fit in my car to go back to Queens, but not both.
We went to the Horticulture building next, where Gryffinitter bought a much-smaller-than-4-feet loom. Sarah and I punked out and ate lunch - not as good as what Carma packed for MDS&W, let me tell you! Gryffinitter was still at it inside when we finished :) Then we dropped our stuff at the car and hit the Holiday Yarns booth to see the Tsock Tsarina's kits. I got the beer socks kit, and I have my eye on the margheurita socks next. Gryffinitter went straight to Carolina Homespun, Sarah & I detoured to Sheep Incognito & Creatively Dyed yarns and met her there. Gryffinitter taught me what a Wanda is (and talked me into a couple, of course). Sarah & I found a great deal on some Noro silk yarn at Cadogan across the aisle.
At some point Sarah got a skein of alpaca that she wore as a cowl for the rest of the day.
Gryffinitter tried out this cute wheel for us.
Sarah won our Scavenger Hunt, which was to find a copy of The Joy of Sox so we could see Emma's/Ann's Snow Bunny pattern!
On the way out we hit one of the food booths for donuts and hot cider - although Sarah was good and just bought 2 apples. That's willpower!
It was a looooooong day.
10.07.2009
in other news
... Ann got a pattern published, in a real book! It's called The Joy of Sox. Of course I ordered one, and you should too! I'm nowhere near skilled enough to knit her sock pattern but there's a couple in the book I want to try. They are interesting (and pretty!).
... I am playing volleyball at work. We had a game last night - well, we play 3 games in a row, so I guess you would say that we had a match last night? I joined the team as a complete beginner and have attended all-but-one practice, and last night I sucked the least I've ever sucked at volleyball! I might not even be the worst player on the team anymore :) Our coaches-slash-managers from the "A" team said we might actually win a game this season - I'm told the "B" team didn't win a single game last season, so that's actually a compliment. I think.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
... I am playing volleyball at work. We had a game last night - well, we play 3 games in a row, so I guess you would say that we had a match last night? I joined the team as a complete beginner and have attended all-but-one practice, and last night I sucked the least I've ever sucked at volleyball! I might not even be the worst player on the team anymore :) Our coaches-slash-managers from the "A" team said we might actually win a game this season - I'm told the "B" team didn't win a single game last season, so that's actually a compliment. I think.
And now back to your regularly scheduled programming.
7.20.2009
the city
building on my walk to the train.
Note the HBP advert on the bus.
7.16.2009
Fun new trick!
photos at a time.
May I present the only bit of knitting I've managed for two weeks: a
fleur-de-lis dishcloth. Half of which was knit on the plane ride home
from Chicago.
6.29.2009
6.26.2009
vineyard day one
Martha's Vineyard is so much fun!
Yesterday we caught the 10:45 ferry to the Island. Sat outside on deck, in the sun... might've gotten a little sunburned, but it's all good :)
Willie, our cab driver, graciously answered my bazillion questions about how to pronounce the town names (Katama = kuh tame uh, Aquinnah... shoot I forgot that one already! lol). We found the house easily, got a little settled, and headed to Edgartown for lunch.
Edgartown is really cute! L recommended a sandwich shop named Humphrey's, and on our way over we passed an impromptu a cappella performance - The Vineyard Sound advertising their show that night. Shaina was really hungry, and thought to distract me from the a capella by pointing out a needlepoint shop. LOL! They dragged me out by promising to return after lunch. Humphrey's was great, HUGE sandwiches (and yummy too ;). I got a small project to work on this trip, and Howard got one for his grandmother.
After Edgartown we went back to the house, and bicycled into Vineyard Haven. It's a very nice, flat ride... it didn't feel like 7 miles at all. My bike had a problem just as we got into town, but there's bike places everywhere, so we went into one (Craig's fyi, in case you ever need), and he fixed us right up. For $3. $3 buys you nothing in NY, so this was kinda awesome :D Howard wanted to go to the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, then we got ice cream at Scoops and headed back to the house. It took us 30 minutes, no kidding! Maybe it's the water here, bicycling was never this fun/easy.
Last night we went to the Vineyard Sound concert. They were so good. The music was excellent, but they really put on a show, with lots of things going on visually onstage, acting, dancing, and comedic pantomime. Not "just singing", like most a capella I've heard.
Yesterday we caught the 10:45 ferry to the Island. Sat outside on deck, in the sun... might've gotten a little sunburned, but it's all good :)
Willie, our cab driver, graciously answered my bazillion questions about how to pronounce the town names (Katama = kuh tame uh, Aquinnah... shoot I forgot that one already! lol). We found the house easily, got a little settled, and headed to Edgartown for lunch.
Edgartown is really cute! L recommended a sandwich shop named Humphrey's, and on our way over we passed an impromptu a cappella performance - The Vineyard Sound advertising their show that night. Shaina was really hungry, and thought to distract me from the a capella by pointing out a needlepoint shop. LOL! They dragged me out by promising to return after lunch. Humphrey's was great, HUGE sandwiches (and yummy too ;). I got a small project to work on this trip, and Howard got one for his grandmother.
After Edgartown we went back to the house, and bicycled into Vineyard Haven. It's a very nice, flat ride... it didn't feel like 7 miles at all. My bike had a problem just as we got into town, but there's bike places everywhere, so we went into one (Craig's fyi, in case you ever need), and he fixed us right up. For $3. $3 buys you nothing in NY, so this was kinda awesome :D Howard wanted to go to the Bunch of Grapes bookstore, then we got ice cream at Scoops and headed back to the house. It took us 30 minutes, no kidding! Maybe it's the water here, bicycling was never this fun/easy.
Last night we went to the Vineyard Sound concert. They were so good. The music was excellent, but they really put on a show, with lots of things going on visually onstage, acting, dancing, and comedic pantomime. Not "just singing", like most a capella I've heard.
6.24.2009
More socks!
extra stitch & just fudged it... so no worries, you still have a job :-)
The left sock is snug, the right sock, the first one I made, is too big. Snug socks stretch, so I'm glad I am tighter now not looser.
6.09.2009
progress
My friend Rochel crochets and wants to learn to knit so I offered to teach her, and from there we kinda decided to start a Stitch and Bitch with our friends. So last night 6 of us met in J2, and I taught 4 friends how to knit. Shaina already kinda knew how to knit, but also not enough people told me to bring them needles so I ran out. It was a great success though, everyone seemed to like it and plan to come back next week!
I've been meaning to teach those friends to knit for ages, so I am glad to finally make progress on that :)
I cast on the 2nd sock of my Burning Pyres socks last night... but this morning I crunched 2 of my 6 knitpicks DPNs. Notice the blondwood dpn - that's from a Brittany set :( I need to place another KP order... but in the meantime I am making progress on my socks anyways!
I've been meaning to teach those friends to knit for ages, so I am glad to finally make progress on that :)
I cast on the 2nd sock of my Burning Pyres socks last night... but this morning I crunched 2 of my 6 knitpicks DPNs. Notice the blondwood dpn - that's from a Brittany set :( I need to place another KP order... but in the meantime I am making progress on my socks anyways!
5.28.2009
softball again
OMG we WON last night! Our first win of the season! Sarah called me right after the win and I might've been a little hysterical/screechy, but we really do suck and it was a GREAT game.
I hit onto base twice! Of course I was running my butt off and not watching the ball, but they must've *sucked* at fielding my hits because I am a slow runner and I didn't hit it out of the infield of anything. I also got a walk, and made it home that time, running!
Each team had to take an automatic out at the end of our lineup because we only had 4 girls, and needed to have 5. Our automatic out was after Dan, so if he came up with 2 outs I was supposed to run home because the inning was going to be over anyways. The first time I hit onto base, I stopped at 3rd instead of running home because I didn't know about the automatic out. I don't think I could've made it anyway, the pitcher had the ball and would've thrown me out. But the second time, after my walk, the 3b coach was telling me to stop running and the ball was on the other side of the field! So I ran home, and the runner after me got home, but the dude after him got tagged at 3rd. It was a crucial two runs though :)
We lost our second game, but it was still a good, evenly-matched game. I struck out (I think twice), but I also got a really solid (for me) hit to shortstop. With bases loaded. Sucks that he caught it, to end the inning.
The league is co-ed, and you need to have evenly divided infields and outfields. So it's always a guy pitching and girl catching, then shortstop and a base are dudes and the other 2 are chics, and we play 2 and 2 in the outfield. The guys like to "cover" our positions a little too much, but I am finding that if I talk the the guys nearby before the inning starts, and explain that I know what to do in the case of this or that play, they are slightly less likely to cover me unnecesarily. Slightly.
Jess and I are going to practice and make sure that if they aren't over-covering us we can actually step up and field well on our own terms.
Oh PS, minimal leg pain today! I am so loving Softball :)
I hit onto base twice! Of course I was running my butt off and not watching the ball, but they must've *sucked* at fielding my hits because I am a slow runner and I didn't hit it out of the infield of anything. I also got a walk, and made it home that time, running!
Each team had to take an automatic out at the end of our lineup because we only had 4 girls, and needed to have 5. Our automatic out was after Dan, so if he came up with 2 outs I was supposed to run home because the inning was going to be over anyways. The first time I hit onto base, I stopped at 3rd instead of running home because I didn't know about the automatic out. I don't think I could've made it anyway, the pitcher had the ball and would've thrown me out. But the second time, after my walk, the 3b coach was telling me to stop running and the ball was on the other side of the field! So I ran home, and the runner after me got home, but the dude after him got tagged at 3rd. It was a crucial two runs though :)
We lost our second game, but it was still a good, evenly-matched game. I struck out (I think twice), but I also got a really solid (for me) hit to shortstop. With bases loaded. Sucks that he caught it, to end the inning.
The league is co-ed, and you need to have evenly divided infields and outfields. So it's always a guy pitching and girl catching, then shortstop and a base are dudes and the other 2 are chics, and we play 2 and 2 in the outfield. The guys like to "cover" our positions a little too much, but I am finding that if I talk the the guys nearby before the inning starts, and explain that I know what to do in the case of this or that play, they are slightly less likely to cover me unnecesarily. Slightly.
Jess and I are going to practice and make sure that if they aren't over-covering us we can actually step up and field well on our own terms.
Oh PS, minimal leg pain today! I am so loving Softball :)
Socks!
of one of the socks. Can you guess which?
5.20.2009
5.18.2009
why a $20 discretionary fund is a necesity
or
T is evil
T goes to the Smiley's sale Saturday. It's okay that she didn't invite me because it was a Saturday. She could have asked if I wanted something, but that's still not the evil part.
Oh no.
She did the absolutely most evil thing ever.
She IMed me at work this morning to tell me that my favorite DPNs were being sold for $1 a set. It was kinda a slow morning at work, so I headed over there during my lunch break.
40 sets of needles later... we won't discuss how much yarn I got.
5.10.2009
5.08.2009
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5.05.2009
house cup #2
I signed up for the 2nd round of the House Cup. The first one was fun, I just couldn't stay into it for March due to other things... but it was still tons of fun.
Olive and I had our monthly strategy meeting. I love these chats with Olive b/c otherwise I would be completely lost. Anyways, for May I am making:
A.R. - a Self Fringing Shawl (Invisibility Cloak)
A - a soap sweater with stripes in the Fibonnaci sequence.
C - a green and silver purse... or slippers... or something
DADA - Fetching
H - skipping for now
M.S. - Penny-inspired Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Wristers
I still need to figure out which OWL I am doing, but I want to make socks. I figure that's the best way to make sure I finish a pair sometime this century.
Olive and I had our monthly strategy meeting. I love these chats with Olive b/c otherwise I would be completely lost. Anyways, for May I am making:
A.R. - a Self Fringing Shawl (Invisibility Cloak)
A - a soap sweater with stripes in the Fibonnaci sequence.
C - a green and silver purse... or slippers... or something
DADA - Fetching
H - skipping for now
M.S. - Penny-inspired Dr Horrible's Sing-Along Wristers
I still need to figure out which OWL I am doing, but I want to make socks. I figure that's the best way to make sure I finish a pair sometime this century.
4.13.2009
scarf travels
An update on my Scarf Travels:
Ronnica asked me to help moderate the Scarf Travels group, along with herself, MissLucy and Netta. I'm keeping an eye on the International Group - the only group I'm in. So far my group is the best! Of course :) For the first mailing, we had everyone mail by the Monday after the Friday deadline and all but 2 scarves have been acknowledged as received. I gotta check on those two others today.
I decided what to do with my scarf! I am using the Drop Stitch Scarf Pattern, and some beautiful Colinette yarn called Cadenza, in the Jay colorway because it's gorgeous and it reminds me of mermaids and the ocean. My scarf went out 4/5 and Nancy already let me know that it was received. Phew!
Ronnica's scarf came Friday, but since I'm having them mailed to work and I was out last Friday, I just saw it today. She did a pretty Entrelac pattern with Patons Soy Wool Stripes. I have no idea what I'm going to do next on her scarf, but I'm sure it'll turn out okay.
Ronnica asked me to help moderate the Scarf Travels group, along with herself, MissLucy and Netta. I'm keeping an eye on the International Group - the only group I'm in. So far my group is the best! Of course :) For the first mailing, we had everyone mail by the Monday after the Friday deadline and all but 2 scarves have been acknowledged as received. I gotta check on those two others today.
I decided what to do with my scarf! I am using the Drop Stitch Scarf Pattern, and some beautiful Colinette yarn called Cadenza, in the Jay colorway because it's gorgeous and it reminds me of mermaids and the ocean. My scarf went out 4/5 and Nancy already let me know that it was received. Phew!
Ronnica's scarf came Friday, but since I'm having them mailed to work and I was out last Friday, I just saw it today. She did a pretty Entrelac pattern with Patons Soy Wool Stripes. I have no idea what I'm going to do next on her scarf, but I'm sure it'll turn out okay.
3.24.2009
Traveling Scarf project
Last Thursday Ronnica invited me to join a Round Robin she's organizing on Ravelry, Scarf Travels. The basic premise: you get assigned to a group of 10 knitters, cast on and knit 5 inches of your own scarf, and then each scarf gets mailed around the group and everyone knits 5" on each scarf. We can be as vague (="crafter's choice") or control freak (= X pattern in Y yarn that the scarf's owner sends you) as we like.
I don't sign up for everything I read about on Ravelry, but this sounded like fun. Ronnica assigned me to her group, the International group, which is cool 'cuz I'm mailing to Illinois. Ronnica's mailing to me. I wonder if we can do an in-person handoff when we do the meetup at the end of April?
The worst part is picking the parameters for my scarf. First, I thought it would be cool to pick a pattern and let people chose the yarn they wanted to work with. Then I started searching for a pattern... There's too many options, and at the same time nothing is screaming to me that I should pick it for my scarf.
At this point I'm tempted to go crafter's choice just so I don't have to deal, but last night I had an idea. I think I am going with an Theme for my scarf - Water. I think that most people live near a coast or a lake or an island continent like Australia ;). Well, except for MissLucy out in Vegas, but there's always the Bellagio Fountain right? I like the Morning Surf and Drop Stitch scarf patterns (and I dare you to find me the difference between them). So, Drop Stitch scarf, blues/greens for yarn color, worsted weight... right?
Then I was thinking, what if I include a "get out of jail free" card, with a list of 5 ways that a knitter could break the rules: different color (x2), different pattern, different yarn weight, different stitch count/width. If you sign your Rav userid on the card you get to break that one rule for your section, as long as you keep it ocean themed. For example, instead of blue yarn maybe use bright red and white for "fish", or a deep purple for "seaweed". Or a fingering weight yarn on huge needles to make the width stay the same. Or switch to a different ocean-y stitch pattern for your 5".
I'm basically trying to think of ways to allow free reign, but keep some uniformity throughout the scarf so it doesn't look completely patchworky and weird. My other idea was tossing in 2 skeins of whatever I cast on with, and asking people to try and include an inch in my colors at some point in their section, to acheive color uniformity.
Now that I think about it, it's going to be HARD to be the 9th and 10th knitter on a scarf, and try to make my sections match/go with all that have gone before... Hehe, this is gonna be fun!
I don't sign up for everything I read about on Ravelry, but this sounded like fun. Ronnica assigned me to her group, the International group, which is cool 'cuz I'm mailing to Illinois. Ronnica's mailing to me. I wonder if we can do an in-person handoff when we do the meetup at the end of April?
The worst part is picking the parameters for my scarf. First, I thought it would be cool to pick a pattern and let people chose the yarn they wanted to work with. Then I started searching for a pattern... There's too many options, and at the same time nothing is screaming to me that I should pick it for my scarf.
At this point I'm tempted to go crafter's choice just so I don't have to deal, but last night I had an idea. I think I am going with an Theme for my scarf - Water. I think that most people live near a coast or a lake or an island continent like Australia ;). Well, except for MissLucy out in Vegas, but there's always the Bellagio Fountain right? I like the Morning Surf and Drop Stitch scarf patterns (and I dare you to find me the difference between them). So, Drop Stitch scarf, blues/greens for yarn color, worsted weight... right?
Then I was thinking, what if I include a "get out of jail free" card, with a list of 5 ways that a knitter could break the rules: different color (x2), different pattern, different yarn weight, different stitch count/width. If you sign your Rav userid on the card you get to break that one rule for your section, as long as you keep it ocean themed. For example, instead of blue yarn maybe use bright red and white for "fish", or a deep purple for "seaweed". Or a fingering weight yarn on huge needles to make the width stay the same. Or switch to a different ocean-y stitch pattern for your 5".
I'm basically trying to think of ways to allow free reign, but keep some uniformity throughout the scarf so it doesn't look completely patchworky and weird. My other idea was tossing in 2 skeins of whatever I cast on with, and asking people to try and include an inch in my colors at some point in their section, to acheive color uniformity.
Now that I think about it, it's going to be HARD to be the 9th and 10th knitter on a scarf, and try to make my sections match/go with all that have gone before... Hehe, this is gonna be fun!
1.14.2009
felting
I wrote this post on 1/14 and then my aunt called to tell me about a friend of our family's that was in an accident.... Here it is, 2 weeks later.
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Who knew?
Over the last 2 weeks I knitted 3 large projects that were to be felted:
The Pink Lady Bag (my project in Ravelry)
A Noni Purse with felted flowers - Spring 2006 "Evening" (my project in Ravelry)
Kitty Pi (my project in Ravelry)
Ok so first of all, the project backstories. Over New Year's week I went to Lake Placid with 3 friends, We went downhill skiing one day at Whiteface. We went to the Olympic X-Country facility and the Olympic outdoor speed skating track. New Year's Day we went to Montreal, where the only things that were open were the kosher restaurants and the Casino. I won $123 at Blackjack! I learned to cross country ski, and I was pretty good to.
That is literally when I learned to stop. I was going down a ginormous hill and there was a turn. We all didn't quite learn how to turn yet, either. We couldn't see him from the top of the hill, but my friend was standing at the bottom taking a photo - in the exact place I was heading for.
Me: "French fries! French fries! Wtf? Howard, MOVE!"
But I learned to stop :D
We all really liked cross country, so we went again, this time to the Olympic facility. WAY harder, but also lots of fun because there were more inclines, and we were better at it :)
Anyways, back to the knitting. My friends were really nice and dropped me at the LYS for 30 minutes on Friday - called Adirondack Yarns. I didn't see any yarns I *had* to buy, and I wasn't loving any of the kits, but then the shopkeeper showed me to the pattern section. It was really hard not to walk out with all of them, but I bought 2 bag patterns I've had my eye on for months - the Lucy Bag, and the Noni pattern I linked to above. I also got 2 others, a messener bag pattern called Mercury and The Pink Lady Bag. I had my set of Knitpicks Options needles with me of course, so I picked up 2 skeins of Lamb's Pride Worsted and a cute Fimo button to start the Pink Lady Bag.
It. Knit. Up. HUGE. I was imagining a medium or small purse - this thing was like 12x16 at LEAST, and the handle was looong. Then I made the bag part of the Noni bag - also ginormous. The pattern says small evening bag - HA!.
A friend of mine emailed me to ask if I would cat sit for her while she went to the inauguration. It's a really inconvient location for me, and my parents aren't so happy that her apartment is in Harlem, but whatever. She can't find anyone else. Anyways, I decided to knit a Kitty Pi, in an attempt to elicit good behavior from the cat despite the fact that I am a dog person. Yeah... anyways :) It's a big project - I used 4 skeins of Lion Wool - but I finished in some ridiculously quick time like 5 days or something.
Last night I felted them in the washer. I put it on the hot/cool rinse cycle for the longest time possible. I have never had anything felt so well in the past. They came out perfectly felted, very sturdy, and overall awesome.
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Who knew?
Over the last 2 weeks I knitted 3 large projects that were to be felted:
The Pink Lady Bag (my project in Ravelry)
A Noni Purse with felted flowers - Spring 2006 "Evening" (my project in Ravelry)
Kitty Pi (my project in Ravelry)
Ok so first of all, the project backstories. Over New Year's week I went to Lake Placid with 3 friends, We went downhill skiing one day at Whiteface. We went to the Olympic X-Country facility and the Olympic outdoor speed skating track. New Year's Day we went to Montreal, where the only things that were open were the kosher restaurants and the Casino. I won $123 at Blackjack! I learned to cross country ski, and I was pretty good to.
Me: "French fries! French fries! Wtf? Howard, MOVE!"
But I learned to stop :D
We all really liked cross country, so we went again, this time to the Olympic facility. WAY harder, but also lots of fun because there were more inclines, and we were better at it :)
Anyways, back to the knitting. My friends were really nice and dropped me at the LYS for 30 minutes on Friday - called Adirondack Yarns. I didn't see any yarns I *had* to buy, and I wasn't loving any of the kits, but then the shopkeeper showed me to the pattern section. It was really hard not to walk out with all of them, but I bought 2 bag patterns I've had my eye on for months - the Lucy Bag, and the Noni pattern I linked to above. I also got 2 others, a messener bag pattern called Mercury and The Pink Lady Bag. I had my set of Knitpicks Options needles with me of course, so I picked up 2 skeins of Lamb's Pride Worsted and a cute Fimo button to start the Pink Lady Bag.
It. Knit. Up. HUGE. I was imagining a medium or small purse - this thing was like 12x16 at LEAST, and the handle was looong. Then I made the bag part of the Noni bag - also ginormous. The pattern says small evening bag - HA!.
A friend of mine emailed me to ask if I would cat sit for her while she went to the inauguration. It's a really inconvient location for me, and my parents aren't so happy that her apartment is in Harlem, but whatever. She can't find anyone else. Anyways, I decided to knit a Kitty Pi, in an attempt to elicit good behavior from the cat despite the fact that I am a dog person. Yeah... anyways :) It's a big project - I used 4 skeins of Lion Wool - but I finished in some ridiculously quick time like 5 days or something.
Last night I felted them in the washer. I put it on the hot/cool rinse cycle for the longest time possible. I have never had anything felt so well in the past. They came out perfectly felted, very sturdy, and overall awesome.
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