Posted in finished object, knitting on October 29, 2007 | 5 Comments »
Just a brief update of some wee tiny socks I knit for a mail art swap.
I used this pattern and my smallest needles (US size 2) and the finest yarns I had: some fingering-weight unknown green stuff (the bag says “100% fibre inconnu” though the burn test points to mostly wool with some synthetic [...]
Posted in spinning, sustainability on October 16, 2007 | 3 Comments »
For Blog Action Day, I thought I’d write a bit about why I’m moving further away from commercially-prepped roving and spinning fibre. When I started spinning my own yarn, I’d never worked with raw fleece straight off the sheep’s (or alpaca’s, or goat’s, etc.) back. As I was just trying to get the [...]
Posted in knitting, vintage on October 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
Yesterday I ventured out into the chilly autumn rain (and forgot my umbrella) to go to a fabric flea market in the Glebe. I don’t have much need for fabric (I’m a lapsed quilter, and never learned to sew on a machine, though I’d like to change both of those at some point) but [...]
Posted in coffee swap, knitting on October 12, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Having been sick for a week now, just about the only thing I have the energy to post is this questionnaire for the Knitter’s Coffee Swap 3 (because I clearly don’t have enough caffeine in my life already):
1. Whole bean or ground? I’m going to say whole bean, and use this as a reason [...]
Posted in knitting, sustainability on October 5, 2007 | No Comments »
You know, I hate to harp on one thing in particular (and in fact I’ve been working on a series of posts detailing the way I produce my yarns, start to finish–stay tuned for that), but I happened to look at the website for the Pidge again this morning. They’ve done a complete overhaul, and [...]
