Earlier this spring I decided I wanted to try to grow some veggies. So I planted seeds for lettuce, tomato and cucumber. It was four of each in their own compost pellet things and they started off fine. Then three of the tomato plants died, three of lettuce plants died but all four cucumbers seemed [...]
Another post so quickly after the last one? Amazing, I know.
We got our suitcases this morning! Which lead me to take lots of pics to update my Rav page and then I figured I might as well blog about them too. Anyway, a heads up that this is very picture heavy so… yeah… just sayin’, [...]
And I’m back from Boston, MA. Had a great time, but I don’t think I’d want to stay for more than a week without a rental car. If we had that, then there would’ve been day trips to all sorts of places nearby. But we just spend the week in the city exploring.
Getting there was [...]
Yesterday was World Wide Knit In Public Day. And Sheffield had something organized! It was held in the Peace Gardens from 11-4. The weather was gorgeous. So we (yes, we, Oliver came with me even though he doesn’t knit) got there a little after 11. Hung around knitting until about 12:30 and then we went [...]
What’s up? Not much. Lots and lots of school work. I should actually be reading and critiquing stories right now, but I’m blogging instead. Yay for procrastination?
The weather has been gorgeous over here. So much so that I spent most of Sunday outside reading (finished The Other Queen by Philippa Gregeory). And I wound up [...]
I’ve finally wound off the singles from my spindle and begun spinning the other half of the bfl/silk.
Aeolian is done. Ends still need to to be woven in and then blocking. It’s a pretty good size the way it is now. And I can tell it’ll be very warm (doing it in fingering weight instead [...]
Lookie what I finished yesterday!
That’s about 50 g of the BFL/Silk blend that I’ve spun up this last week. Now I need to wind it off, pre-draft the other half of March’s shipment and spin that up. This stuff is amazing. Like seriously soft and so easy to spin.
And this is Aeolian!
It’s scrunched up on [...]
Well Pioneer is done. I’ve worn it twice already. It grew a bit more than I expected during the blocking, but that’s okay. Next time I’ll just throw it in the dryer so it won’t do that.
I’ve started another large project: Aeolian. I’m using the green 100% wool I bought while in Montana two years [...]
I bought these really cute stitch markers today. Cheese and strawberries!
There was a reason for wanting them too (besides the cuteness). I’m working on this sweater and my current stitch markers (cheap, plastic Lion Brand ones I got while back in Montana) just aren’t working. They’re too big and causing oddness in the raglan increase [...]
Not much to say. Usual stuff going on:
1. Knitting
Lots of stuff. Mainly socks right now. Still need to knit up a bookmark as a birthday present. Then I’ll be starting Pioneer from the newest Knitty. OMG this issue is made of win. I want to knit most of the patterns in there. I’ve already queued [...]