In with the purple!
Flash your purple stash!
Click the image to see what it is!
4 comments July 1st, 2006
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Flash your Blue Stash
I finally got around to taking a picture of my blue yarn. Click the picture to see what it all is.
Still feeling really yucky. That’s about all the energy I have for today. Have a great weekend!
2 comments June 24th, 2006
Getting there
So I’m almost done with the back of Loll. That fringe on the bottom, while really challenging and kind of fun, took FOREVER. Oh my God. But I’m not complaining..oh no.
Loving the Calmer. Loving the softness. The stretchiness of it is a little weird, but oh well.
The pattern so far I’m not so sure about. Those damn Brits and their directions 
. I was just a little bit confused by a couple of things. the first thing was the amount of stitches between each fringe. When you knit the wrong side right after you do the fringe row you are supposed to purl the stitch with the fringe, and then the directions tell you to knit 3. That didn’t make sense to me at all because I had two stitches inbetween each fringe when all was said and done. So I just did want seemed right to me and purled 1 k2.
Another thing that was weird were the increases and decreases. The directions didn’t make sense to me, so I kind of did my own thing with that, too. Or maybe I did what the directions told me to do. I don’t know. It was just a bit confusing. But it all seems to be working out, so there.
So, as you know, we are all moved into my new house. I posted some pics over on the other blog, of you want to see them. But the one thing I left out of that post was my “Yarn Closet”:
I originally opened the closet to day to get a “flash your blue stash” Project Spectrum shot. But I looked in there and thought, “no.” That will have to be for another day. I don’t have the energy.
5 comments June 12th, 2006
Jaywalker
I finished my Project Spectrum knitting project last week.
Pattern: Jaywalker by Grumperina in Magknits .
Yarn: Two hanks of Claudia’s Handpainted in Paprika.
Needles: Clover dpns in size 1.
Started: April 2nd
Finished: April 14th.
Here’s another picture of them.
I loved knitting these socks! I knitted them the old fashioned way with five dpns (as opposed to two circulars). I don’t think I have a preference. I think the only good thing about knitting socks on two circs may be that the project is more portable. I love this yarn! the color is amazing. It reminds me a lot of Koigu. It is spun the same way, I think. This pattern was fun, too. Perfect for a verigated yarn.
I added some more Kool-aide dye to my orange hank. I like the way it turned out! More orangey. I also tried to used the lemonaide Kool-aide to add yellow and it didn’t work. Oh well. It smells sooo good.
So the house hunting thing is not going so great. I had kind of an emotional week last week. I wrote about it here. We found a fantastic house that we love and we were going to make and offer on it, but then we sat down and crunched the numbers and realized that we just would not be able to make the mortgage. It’s depressing. I feel like I’m never going to get a house. I mean, I can’t even get what I want here in Spokane, where it’s supposedly less expensive than everywhere else. We have some things we are going to do, like pay down some credit card debt, and check into a few first-time homebuyers programs. So maybe that will help.
7 comments April 17th, 2006
Jaywalking along
This is what I’ve been knitting all week with that orange Claudia’s Handpainted. Jaywalker socks! I can’t believe, after a week, I’m still not done with them. I’m a slow sock knitter! Oh well. Definately done in the next few days. Love the pattern. Love the color! Two great tastes that go great together. Doncha think?
Another Project Spectrummy thing I did yesterday was dye some yarn! I am going for yellow and orange. Hmmmm. Not so much. I only bought one packet of each color and totally ran out of Kool-aid. Obviously. So I think I will buy some more and try adding to it. I hope you can do that…Plus, I would like it to be a bit more saturated.
I wanted to show you something that my friend, Kathryn (Hi Kathryn!) sent me yesterday. It’s a tree sweater:
Erika from RedShirt Knitting knitted up a sweater for a sorry little tree in front of her house in Seattle, and then has documented the reaction to it over the weeks. It even made the cover of a local alternative newspaper! What an awesome idea! I would love to do that here in Spokane. I don’t think people would understand, though.
Guess what has been keeping me away from knitting the past week or so? House hunting. Yes, I’ve been house hunting. It’s quite the adventure! It’s unbelievable how quickly housing prices have risen in this town in the last year. But that’s a rant for the other blog . I think we may have found one so keep your fingers or (As Christie said) your knitting needles crossed for me! Will update you on the progress.
4 comments April 11th, 2006