Black Sheep

I’m an e-bay convert

I won my e-bay bid on the Noro Silk Garden! Woo-hoo! I am paying $75.00 (including shipping) for ten skiens. That averages out to $7.50 a skien! Wow! What a steal! Buy the way, there is lots of Noro Silk Garden to be had for a bargain on E-bay. My seller was knittingstyle. Here is the e-bay pic (Color #211):

Click here to see it knitted up. Pretty! I’m excited! I’m going to go to my LYS today to see if they sell the book that the Klaralund pattern is in.

In other e-bay news….I’m expecting my spindle to come in the mail today. I can’t wait! Here is the e-bay pic of that:

Maybe this will save me some money on yarn? We’ll see. I’m looking forward to learning the art of spinning.

Here are some knitty books that I’ve been reading:

I found Better Homes and Garden’s Quick-n-Easy Knitting at the local Safeway while standing in line. It’s got a lot of scarf patterns and lots of crochet. Notice that the other two books, Chunky Knits and Vogue Knitting are from the library? Ahem. Chunky knits is just okay. I don’t think I will buy it. The Vogue Knitting is a must have though. I am asking for this for Christmas, and I may break down and buy it sooner. Heather, it has instructions for knitting v-necks in there! It’s a fantastic knitting reference book.

Okay…On to current WIFs. Here is my Zimmerman-esque sweater knitted with my Karabella Softig:

I really *love* this color! This, to me, is a true rose color, unlike the Goa rose. It seems to be knitting up pretty fast. Like I mentioned in another post, It’s hard to knit with because it’s so thick and the needles I’m using are huge. My hands get a little tired after awhile.

Here is what I’ve been mostly working on the past week:

Ugh! It’s the side panel for my Bertie Bag. I still have about 8 freaking more inches to go. This has been so boring to knit. And I am having a hard time not screwing up the pattern. It’s basically a modifed seed stitch, except you slip every other stitch. I guess that’s the best way to describe it. I’m getting a better grasp on it now, but It has been slow going. My goal is to try to finish this piece this weekend.

I was reading Claudia’s blog and read that she visited Artifibers in San Francisco. So I visited thier site. oh. my. God. I have GOT to go there. Check out thier yarn, Chai. I’m dying! It is so gorgeous. According to thier website (and Claudia) they will custom make a pattern for you when you by enough yarn for the pattern. SF’s just a nice scenic drive away for me (up the Pacific Coast Highway), so the hubby and I will have to make a day of it. We’ve been wanting to go to China Town and I’ve always wanted to visit City Lights Books, too. I love San Francisco and it’s been forever since I’ve been there. Fun!

Well, that’s about it for now! I’ll probably post pics of my Spinning adventures in the next few days…Stay tuned

3 comments October 16th, 2004

At Katherine’s Request

Here are pictures of my husband’s socks post-hiking trip:

In the second pic you can really see how they shunk to fit his foot. I don’t know if you can see the felting, so much. But the fact that they are standing on thier own tells you something. Amazing, no? The fact that this was done with sweat is hilarious, I think.

Also, yes that sweater that he is wearing in the post below is one from Knitting Without Tears. It’s one of her seamless sweaters. The drop-shoulder one, I believe. It’s a really easy, nice knit. Like I said, it was the first sweater that I ever knitted and I managed it just fine.

Okay, now for some non knitting stuff. I wanted to direct your attention to another reason to download Firefox. I downloaded the most recent version today and discovered that there is a built-in RSS feed reader. I noticed that there has been some chatter about Bloglines on some of my favorite knitting blogs (here and here, too.). Bloglines is awesome and I have used thier service for quite some time. However, I no longer need to. Firefox’s rss reader is more convienient. It is going to take my blog surfing to a whole new level. When you use firefox you will see a little orange “rss” button on the bottom right of the screen. If you click on it will give you the option to subscribe to the feed on the page. When you choose a feed it will bookmark it. In your bookmark menu it will show up as a folder. When you choose it you will see the last ten or so posts and can then go directly to the post you want to read! It is sooooooooooo awesome! I’m in love with it. You can download Firefox for free here.

And finally, I’ve finally got buttons. Here they are. I’ll also put them on the right side.

     

One last thing. I ordered some of that Den-m-nit from elann. I got it in the darkest indigo color available. I am pretty sure that I will use it to make the cute little denim bag in the Rowan 35 catalog. And since there is a truckload of yarn I might make this:

or this:

I don’t think I’ll have enough yarn to knit all three….We’ll see. I really want a little backpack-type purse and I really like the one pictured above. I also like the one I posted on earlier, from Rowan 35. And I found this one at Fuzzy Galore. I also really really like it, but it seems like lots of work. I read through the instructions and can’t seem to understand them in my head. I might have to save that one for when I’m a bit better.

3 comments September 20th, 2004