Lest We Forget
I am going to depart from my regular yarn related content today to remind you to pause at 11am today. Both DH and I come from military families. My great uncles served in WW1 and my cousins all did active duty with the Canadian Armed Forces. Some are still serving and I pray for them every day. DH’s dad was a chef in the navy during WW2. To both of us, November 11th is an important day to give thanks. It is also one of the reasons that I am …
Booga Baby
I felted my booga bag last night. What fun! I tried a few different ways:1) with dish soap – not much happened2) with dish soap and jeans – apparently one shouldn’t try to felt with ragged jeans – the nobly parts felt in with the yarn3) throwing caution to the wind, wash it with Sunlight laundry soap and really hot waterEureka! Before felting: From Knit After Felting From KnitI …
Booga Booga Booga
Ok, so it’s a poor impersonation of that racing guy that starts off each race with boogity boogity boogity (I am NOT a racing fan, but I have friends who are, so I guess resistance is futile. My Booga is a Booga bag that I cast on for at 8pm on Friday night and just cast off the last blessed stitch of 6 feet of icord. D’ya know why they call it an icord?
Sunday spinning
I really like Sunday nights now. Instead of stewing about the work week to come, I’ve gotten into the habit of going in my spare bedroom design studio around 8pm and putting on my Chris Botti (what a hottie) CD. There I sit and spin my drop spindle. I find it so relaxing, even when […]
Fingerless Gloves
I finished a pair of fingerless gloves from Knitty this morning. Although they look like different sizes, they aren’t. It’s just that I’ve tried on the one on the left a few times. I’ll wash them and they should end up the same size. If I had to make this pattern again, I wouldn’t do […]