Posted in knitting, ravelry, sustainability on September 25, 2007 | 12 Comments »
Recently there’s been a bit of buzz on ravelry about a new little garment called the Pidge. Basically it’s an 1/8 of a scarf, with buttons, to be worn around the neck as a sort of collar:
The makers of the Pidge describe themselves as environmentally friendly, because aside from the Italian cashmere yarn, each [...]
Posted in knitting on September 20, 2007 | 7 Comments »
This has been a big year for babies among my friends. So far four have been born, with another four due between now and February. This works out well for me, since I love knitting for babies and now have plenty of kids to foist my creations on. The great thing about [...]
Posted in knitting, spinning on September 20, 2007 | No Comments »
As of sometime in October, I will be selling my knitted items through Indyish, a Montreal-based group of independent artists. Indyish’s focus is on being sustainable and giving support to “folks who make stuff”, as they put it. I’m excited to be a part of it and I’ll post when my stuff becomes [...]
Posted in finished object, knitting, spinning on September 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Remember that handspun alpaca yarn I made? Well, I went ahead a knit a toque with it. I knit it on size 8 (US) needles and used a mock cable pattern in place of ribbing. The decreasing at the top was done using a somewhat unorthodox P4tog method, but I like the look it gives [...]
Posted in finished object, knitting on September 4, 2007 | 1 Comment »
This knit up incredibly fast–just a few days. I used Jaeger Shetland yarn in grey tweed (recycled from a handknit sweater I bought, much too large for me ever to wear) and adapted this pattern. The original called for bulky yarn on US 10.5 needles, but I added an extra pattern repeat and [...]
Posted in finished object, spinning on September 3, 2007 | 2 Comments »
A while back a member of my old guild had some alpaca fibre she was giving away. She said it was only good for felting and most of it was coarse leg hair, but one bag had some extremely soft chocolate brown fibre. Naturally, I snatched it up and squirrelled it away for [...]
Posted in spinning on September 2, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Finally, some of my handspun yarn:
This is Blue Faced Leicester wool, spun to a heavy worsted/chunky gauge and dyed with grape kool-aid (I’m planning to sell it, and only the barest scrap of decency is keeping me from naming it ‘Jonestown’). I actually have two skeins of it, the smaller shown here; right now [...]
Posted in Secret Pal, knitting, ravelry on September 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Believe what you may have already heard: Ravelry is, in fact, the best thing ever to happen to knitting online. There’s something very satisfying (and not just because of my OCD tendencies) about being able to log and catalogue all of my projects and yarn, and the galleries of finished objects are an invaluable resource [...]
