Archive for September, 2006

disclosure…

I have to be honest with myself (and others) on just how much I bought at the fiber festival…
4 ounces of the blue/green/yellow/purple roving:

4 ounces of pink/orange/yellow roving:

1 pound of white alpaca roving!:

a basket of medium and dark brown alpaca roving (weight undetermined):

A beautiful needle felted llama hat:

A hand knit ruffle scarf: (beautiful & I [...]

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wow!

So…after I wrote last night, I decided to try some more navajo plying with the singles that I spun yesterday at the fiber festival. It went much more smoothly. I was so thrilled with the yarn that resulted that I HAD to knit it up right away!!

I LOVE IT! Colors are just like a sunset [...]

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yarn!

I finally decided to just go ahead and ply the singles that I spun from the bright colored roving that I purchased at the OS Arts and Crafts fair.
I had been unsure of how I should do it since I divided the roving lengthwise into 3 (of course unequal size). The 3 different singles of [...]

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Help?

I have a chronic problem with my socks…(OK besides the ever present second sock syndrome!)
Does this happen to anyone else; and if so how do you fix or avoid it?
– on the heel flap, the slipped stitches on one side look very nice, even, etc.
– [...]

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one down…

I finished my first Baudelaire sock (finally!!) I was even a very good sock knitter and cast on for the second sock within ten minutes of finishing the first!!!
I have a 3 day weekend! I was very happy to see the end of this work day, it was a very long week.
This weekend is the [...]

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