life has been going on...
some knitting...
some work...
some daydreaming...
life is too short to spend time worrying about the what-ifs in life...
make the best of what you have, sleep in the bed you made and deal with it....
change is difficult but necessary...
Sunday, November 01, 2009
Saturday, August 01, 2009
52 in 52 ...
To try to get me back into blogging, I thought I'd try something new. I'm going to commit to 52 posts in the next 52 weeks. This is a take on the 365 in 365 that I've seen on other blogs.
The next post will count as the 1st in the 52 in 52.
The next post will count as the 1st in the 52 in 52.
Wednesday, March 11, 2009
Uhm, so not blogging much...
What have I been doing??
Not blogging obviously! I find that it doesn't hold my attention as it once did, so I don't know how long this will stay active.
Did the Yarn Train to Portland in January- Loved it, will do again, went to Madrona Winter Fiber Retreat in Tacoma in February- had a nice time, doubt I'll stay overnight next year, and plan on going to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival this summer, and Sock Camp in the Portland area in August.
My current projects include:
February Lady Sweater: Dream in Color Classy - Gothic Rose. I've purchased 5 skeins, and am using skeins 2-3 right now. One of the skeins was noticeably darker so I decided to alternate two skeins. This is working well. Based on how much I have left I'm sure I can get the length in the body and at least 3/4 sleeves. I do plan on narrowing the sleeves as the armholes are very comfortably wide. I plan on removing 1 pattern repeat and go down needle size from 7 to 6.
My queue:
1. I still haven't completed Marthas socks…. Ugh!!
2. Need to rip ( too big) then reknit my green watercolor faux colorwork sweater. It will be my first steeked cardigan.
3. I need to knit some baby booties, hat, sweater & bibs for some friends that are expecting babies this year.
4. I'd like to knit Molly a "big girl" cardigan, perhaps the February Baby Sweater or sweater dress….
5. Must make Lyle his fingerless mitts.
6. Was asked to knit a "sock" for a friends car armrest.
7 & 8. Knit a shawl from my new Knitted Lace of Estonian book as well as my Stahmans Shawl & Scarves book.
Good news is that I have the yarn for most of these projects. We'll see just how much of this list actually gets done.
Not blogging obviously! I find that it doesn't hold my attention as it once did, so I don't know how long this will stay active.
Did the Yarn Train to Portland in January- Loved it, will do again, went to Madrona Winter Fiber Retreat in Tacoma in February- had a nice time, doubt I'll stay overnight next year, and plan on going to the Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival this summer, and Sock Camp in the Portland area in August.
My current projects include:
February Lady Sweater: Dream in Color Classy - Gothic Rose. I've purchased 5 skeins, and am using skeins 2-3 right now. One of the skeins was noticeably darker so I decided to alternate two skeins. This is working well. Based on how much I have left I'm sure I can get the length in the body and at least 3/4 sleeves. I do plan on narrowing the sleeves as the armholes are very comfortably wide. I plan on removing 1 pattern repeat and go down needle size from 7 to 6.
My queue:
1. I still haven't completed Marthas socks…. Ugh!!
2. Need to rip ( too big) then reknit my green watercolor faux colorwork sweater. It will be my first steeked cardigan.
3. I need to knit some baby booties, hat, sweater & bibs for some friends that are expecting babies this year.
4. I'd like to knit Molly a "big girl" cardigan, perhaps the February Baby Sweater or sweater dress….
5. Must make Lyle his fingerless mitts.
6. Was asked to knit a "sock" for a friends car armrest.
7 & 8. Knit a shawl from my new Knitted Lace of Estonian book as well as my Stahmans Shawl & Scarves book.
Good news is that I have the yarn for most of these projects. We'll see just how much of this list actually gets done.
Sunday, October 05, 2008
Trip to Port Townsend mid October
Drove up to Port Townsend the weekend before OFF, visited two yarn shops ate at a cute historic restruant and came home with a few pretties! A hank of Fiesta Boomerang, 2 shell & wood shawl pins, 5 stitch markers and 2 DellaQ bags. They were on sale for like $3! What a steal!
Close up of the stitch markers I picked up as well. They're a bit heavy. I think I might string one from a satin corde and wear it as a pendant.
Close up of the stitch markers I picked up as well. They're a bit heavy. I think I might string one from a satin corde and wear it as a pendant.
Sunday, September 28, 2008
Oregon Flock and Fiber Festival
A good friend and I spent 2 days in Oregon this past weekend. We stayed at this lovely B&B called the Anna Becke House. I fell in love with the bed! I never would have thought I'd like all the girlie prints and flowers, but I did. If I had a slightly larger bedroom I'd find a bed frame that was similar.
We arrived early enough in the day Friday to unpack then drive into Portland to visit Yarnia. If you haven't been there, its a fun way to design yarn. I put together a 3 stranded burgundy yarn w/a dark gray thread of silk.
This is the lovely owner and the machine she uses to make the special yarn blends.
Mine was bamboo, rayon & silk.
The main reason we went on the trip was to go to OFF. It more than met my expectations for vendors, people and animals. next year we're going to bring a 3rd person so we can set up a picnic blanket along with food and our spinning wheels in the center of the green. I found this vest knit in once piece at a booth that was just so cute. I intend to make one similar. With some millends from Mountain Colors that I've purchased at other events.
While at OFF I purchased some fiber from Klaus from Crown Mt, 1 skein of the black angora/merino from Toots Leblanc and some wool/silk at BlueMoon. I think I'll make a cardigan from it. The fiber will be spun up and knit into a shawl.
I also found this cute booth by MissPurl on etsy that had a ton of cute stitch markers with coordiating little tins.
I spent a short while looking at the animals on display and thought this one was a darling! Isn't this the cutest little goat?
We arrived early enough in the day Friday to unpack then drive into Portland to visit Yarnia. If you haven't been there, its a fun way to design yarn. I put together a 3 stranded burgundy yarn w/a dark gray thread of silk.This is the lovely owner and the machine she uses to make the special yarn blends.
Mine was bamboo, rayon & silk.
The main reason we went on the trip was to go to OFF. It more than met my expectations for vendors, people and animals. next year we're going to bring a 3rd person so we can set up a picnic blanket along with food and our spinning wheels in the center of the green. I found this vest knit in once piece at a booth that was just so cute. I intend to make one similar. With some millends from Mountain Colors that I've purchased at other events.
While at OFF I purchased some fiber from Klaus from Crown Mt, 1 skein of the black angora/merino from Toots Leblanc and some wool/silk at BlueMoon. I think I'll make a cardigan from it. The fiber will be spun up and knit into a shawl.
I also found this cute booth by MissPurl on etsy that had a ton of cute stitch markers with coordiating little tins.I spent a short while looking at the animals on display and thought this one was a darling! Isn't this the cutest little goat?
Saturday, September 13, 2008
Yellowstone vacation pictures - 6-12/20-08 post 3
Continuation of pictures from the Yellowstone trip. This one is all about the animals!
When driving in the park, you knew there was something interesting to see if there was a line up of cars and a slowing/stopping of traffic.
These guys were the first animals we saw as we entered the park. They're standing up a cliff side to the right of the car.
The Buffalo were the animals we saw the most of.
Deers and bears and birds oh my!
When driving in the park, you knew there was something interesting to see if there was a line up of cars and a slowing/stopping of traffic.
These guys were the first animals we saw as we entered the park. They're standing up a cliff side to the right of the car.
The Buffalo were the animals we saw the most of.
Deers and bears and birds oh my!
Yellowstone vacation pictures - 6-12/20-08 post 2
Here's the 2nd installment of picture from my trip to Yellowstone during June of 2008.
I think what surprised me the most was just how close the animals would get to the road. Most of the images are taken from the car and the animals are perhaps 5-15 away.
Lyle in front of Yellowstone Lake, near the Yellowstone Lake Hotel.
View from the car. It had snowed for a few days before we arrived. There was still snow when we left a week later. 
Here are a variety of shots of geothermal things. 
Series of pictures of Old Faithful. It steam a bit before actually going off.
I think what surprised me the most was just how close the animals would get to the road. Most of the images are taken from the car and the animals are perhaps 5-15 away.
Lyle in front of Yellowstone Lake, near the Yellowstone Lake Hotel.
View from the car. It had snowed for a few days before we arrived. There was still snow when we left a week later. 
Here are a variety of shots of geothermal things. 
Series of pictures of Old Faithful. It steam a bit before actually going off.
Yellowstone vacation pictures - 6-12/20-08
The first leg of out trip was to MT so I could visit the home of Mountain Colors. I really enjoy working with their yarn.
Shelves of undyed yarn. It hasn't been washed or preped yet.
Once the yarn is washed and prepared it is counted for the particular order and then layed out on a stainless steel countertop and dyed. The shelves above the yarn have squeeze bottles of dye. Each color has a few bottles. Each colorway has, if I remember correctly, 6-9 colors each. The dyers take a bottle which is numbered from the shelf and then dye all the yarn in a row with that color. The next person takes the 2nd bottle of dye and walks along behind the 1st dyer applying the dye to the yarn. This process continues until each of the colors for the colorway have been used.
Close up of the countertop.
After the dye has been applied, the yarn is placed in steamer tubs (electric chafing dishes with steamer inserts). I think they had about 30 of them around the room.
Just inside the entryway of the shop are cubbyholes of yarn. They do not have the types of yarn separated. They organize their yarn by colorway. Within each cubbyhole you could find 5 or more types of yarn.
One of my favorite areas was where their mill ends were located. They had more of their sock yarn than other types. I cam home with this batch:
I came home with two batches of yarn, Weavers Wool, in 2 color families for my two buddies, Rhonda and Ialiuxh. For myself I purchased two hanks of the colorway Yellowstone, in Weavers Wool. I also purchased some mill ends of their 3-ply bulky and enough Weavers Wool Millends in a light blue for myself.
Shelves of undyed yarn. It hasn't been washed or preped yet.
Once the yarn is washed and prepared it is counted for the particular order and then layed out on a stainless steel countertop and dyed. The shelves above the yarn have squeeze bottles of dye. Each color has a few bottles. Each colorway has, if I remember correctly, 6-9 colors each. The dyers take a bottle which is numbered from the shelf and then dye all the yarn in a row with that color. The next person takes the 2nd bottle of dye and walks along behind the 1st dyer applying the dye to the yarn. This process continues until each of the colors for the colorway have been used.
Close up of the countertop.
After the dye has been applied, the yarn is placed in steamer tubs (electric chafing dishes with steamer inserts). I think they had about 30 of them around the room.
Just inside the entryway of the shop are cubbyholes of yarn. They do not have the types of yarn separated. They organize their yarn by colorway. Within each cubbyhole you could find 5 or more types of yarn.
One of my favorite areas was where their mill ends were located. They had more of their sock yarn than other types. I cam home with this batch:
I came home with two batches of yarn, Weavers Wool, in 2 color families for my two buddies, Rhonda and Ialiuxh. For myself I purchased two hanks of the colorway Yellowstone, in Weavers Wool. I also purchased some mill ends of their 3-ply bulky and enough Weavers Wool Millends in a light blue for myself.
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