Posted in kitchen, spinning, tagged FO, legwarmers, baking, spinning, hello yarn fiber club, quiche, 2-ply, romney, alpine on August 31, 2009 | 6 Comments »
You know, like alpine.
I absolutely love the way the browns and golds interact with the blues in this skein. So pretty.
203 yards of 2-ply romney, from Hello Yarn, in the Alpine colorway. Romney is not as soft as the other fibers I’ve been spinning lately, but oh, that sheen. I wonder if this should become [...]
Posted in kitchen, spinning on August 30, 2009 | 7 Comments »
Twists: Hello Yarn romney 2-ply in the Alpine colorway, both on the bobbin and hanging to dry.
Wrinkles: Is there anything more to say? I love it when Boh falls asleep on his wrinkly face. Sigh.
Today’s plan: more lace knitting — after a brunch for the incoming grad students in the department, which means I’m off [...]
Posted in knitting, spinning, tagged knitting, lace, spinning, hello yarn fiber club, singles, springtime bandit, shawl, malabrigo sock, bobbins, romney on August 29, 2009 | 3 Comments »
Bobbin 1 of the Hello Yarn romney in Alpine.
Bobbin 2, first in progress, because I thought I was going to stop, and then, in the second picture, finished. This stuff spins itself. I may cheat a little bit and ply later tonight instead of letting the singles rest a full day, We’ll see.
The wedding is [...]
Posted in spinning, tagged boh, spinning, hello yarn, grad school, fiber, HY fiber club, romney on August 28, 2009 | 4 Comments »
In all of the start-of-the-semester hubbub, my wheel has been empty for most of the week. I returned home from campus (where my office is growing ever cozier with each bag of belongings I move from here to there) today and decided to at least start something so that I can try to spin a [...]
Posted in grad school, tagged back to school, grad school on August 27, 2009 | 5 Comments »
The “back to school” photo was always a big deal in my house. Every year, my brother and I would pose by the fireplace, or in front of the flowers in the yard, with backpacks on our backs and awkward smiles on our faces. These pictures are today’s version of that tradition — and yes, [...]
Posted in CSA veggies, kitchen, knitting, tagged CSA, farm, flowers, kitchen, knitting, pickling, plain and simple pullover, sauerkraut, test knitting on August 26, 2009 | 6 Comments »
It is delicious. Victory! I let this sit on the counter in my one-gallon pickling crock for 5 weeks (7/18-8/25), occasionally skimming off anything that formed on the surface, and rinsing the cheesecloth and brine bag weighting down the cabbage.
It might be time to go looking for really good reuben recipes!
Here are some of the [...]
Posted in grad school, tagged coffee, grad school on August 25, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Year 2, week 1. Nothing knitterly to show today. I now have the key to my office, and a pile of stuff to lug up to campus to help make it a cozy work space, including some older knitting WIPs that just might get some attention if they start living there…
Posted in spinning, tagged 2-ply, AVFKW, boh, FO, spinning, superwash bfl, worsted on August 24, 2009 | 5 Comments »
Here’s the pink half of the bump of AVFKW superwash bfl in the pointillism colorway: 106 yds of 2-ply, from 2 oz.
And here’s the yellow half, spun, plied, and skeined:
The yellow 2 oz. yielded 95 yds of 2-ply, so I have 201 yards to work with. I’m thinking about not using a constrast color at [...]
Posted in spinning, tagged 2-ply, AVFKW, baby sweater, BFL, cosy, spinning, superwash on August 23, 2009 | 4 Comments »
So I’m spinning for something. I’ve been eyeing cosy’s adorable baby sweater for awhile now, and I was thrilled when she posted that she needed some folks to knit these out of handspun. Though I have a large bag full o’ my own handspun, I decided that this might be an opportunity to at least [...]
Posted in knitting, tagged knitting, lace, malabrigo sock, shawl, wedding shawl on August 22, 2009 | 3 Comments »
H’s wedding shawl (an ishbel/springtime bandit hybrid inspired by brokeknits) is coming along. Yesterday I finished one repeat of the leaf pattern, and decided to do another. I have plenty of yarn, so think I am going to aim for 3 leaf pattern repeats before I begin the edging.
I know I’ve written about my lace [...]
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