Sleepy. May 14, 2009
Posted by jeninmaine in Crafty, Etsy, sewing.Tags: bag, box, Etsy, fabric, knitting, sewing, yarn
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It’s late, but I accomplished something!
This was my first attempt and once I figured out how to do the voodoo to get the seams going the right way after turning one tube inside the other and forming the corners, it was pretty easy. The next one I make will take even less time. I have some pretty batiks for that one.
It was fun! I need to prescribe myself fun stuff at least once a day.
Treasury 5/13 May 13, 2009
Posted by jeninmaine in Crafty, Etsy, spinning.1 comment so far
I got a message from someone on Etsy telling me she had included a skein of my yarn in a Treasury she created. I’m so flattered! I’m always surprised when people like the things I make. I’m too critical of myself, truth be told.
Of course I saved a screenshot :) For someone like Joy this is a regular thing, but it doesn’t happen all that much for me so I need to revel in it a little. “Front and center!” she said. Hee!
I’m just a nerdy girl.
Gah, I just depressed the pump on my giant bottle of hand lotion and squirted a big gob of it into my tea. Bleh.
Spin, Knit May 7, 2009
Posted by jeninmaine in Crafty, Etsy, knitting, spinning.Tags: bfl, Etsy, frog hair fibers, hand-dyed, handspun, knitting, merino, spinning
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I managed to wrench my shoulder a couple of nights ago. I’m not really sure what I did or how I did it – I was sitting on the floor in the guest room-cum-Michael’s office-cum-studio and turned to my left, reached beside and behind me with my left arm to pick up something fairly light, and it must have been just the wrong angle as a pain shot up my arm when I did it. Ever since then it’s been punky. I can put weight on it, I can do most things with it, but I can’t reach out and, say, pick up a gallon of milk with it, or comfortably reach behind me to hook my bra. Trying to wrestle Mim to get her diaper on this morning was just short of torture. It’s just certain angles – one of which I discovered is the force exerted in pulling a hank of yarn taut and twisting it into a skein. That sucked, I actually had to stop and take some deep breaths, the pain was so sudden and unexpected. So yeah. Fantastic.
I am every so thankful, however, that it was my left shoulder and not my right because anything involving pressing with my fingers such as opening a childproof cap would hurt a lot. Being a righty that would make just about anything painful. Fortunately as well my typing is not affected so I can still work.
Speaking of which I do have some yarn photos – here are those two skeins I finished a couple of weeks ago but took crappy pictures the first time around. These were both spun from roving I got from Frog Hair Fibers, I love her colors, especially the second one.
This is superwash Merino wool, I spun it quick and squishy so it would make a really poofy warm yarn as I’m trying to break out of my tendency to spin teensy weensy perfectionist style.
Roving: Superwash Merino color “Candy” from Frog Hair Fibers
This is superwash Blue Faced Leicester, which frankly I was worried about as the BFL I’ve spun has almost been too soft, drifting apart easily while spinning and being kind of a pain in the ass. I was glad that this stuff was still soft, but not without substance. Maybe the superwash process toughened it up a little bit? Anyway the resulting yarn has a fantastic drape, I’m tempted to keep this one for myself.
Roving: Superwash BFL colorway “Antiquity” from Frog Hair Fibers
In the “making things” department I’ve been dinking around on this Chevron Scarf for a couple of weeks, now. The stitch pattern is so easy that sometimes I start to nod off while working on it. It’s also in fingering weight yarn so it feels like it is taking forever. I think that’s further exacerbated by the fact that I only get a few minutes here and there to rattle off a couple of rows. Or I fall asleep :) Anyway I had these two random skeins of Koigu KPPPM and this was the perfect project for stashbusting them. I’m just about halfway done.
Pattern: Chevron Scarf by Joelle Hoverson, from Last minute Knitted Gifts
Yarn: Koigu KPPPM, color P204 (red) and P426 (purple)
It obviously needs a lot of blocking so it’ll lay flat once it’s finished. My plan is to wear it as a headscarf, if I can figure out how to get it to stay on my slippery hair without sliding off. Maybe I need to invest in some bobby pins as I really want to wear scarves on my head and can’t seem to figure it out.
Fiber News April 16, 2009
Posted by jeninmaine in Crafty, dyeing, Etsy, spinning.Tags: darth crafty, dyeing, fiber, frog hair, jesh, merino, roving, seacell, spindle, spinning
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I traded a Ravelry friend, Jesh, who has a super cool Etsy shop for one of her drop spindles. I traded her moneys and some merino/seacell fiber I dyed to her specs:
The spindle she made for me is so pretty and she included a little sample of baby camel fiber. Wow, that stuff is so very soft and spins like a dream! I don’t really use a drop spindle all that often but I love her stuff. I figure it’ll be a good thing to have for times I can’t use my wheel.
In other news I’ve been working on some new fiber, this is superwash Blue Faced Leicester from Frog Hair Fibers:
This is next in line once I’m done with that, also from the same seller, superwash merino:
And just because shots of Lego Darth Vader and fiber arts amuses me, I give you Darth Crafty: