Clearly I deserve some sort of award for Blog Neglect, but the briefest of updates as to my goings-on in fibre arts these days:
- More classes at Ariadne;
- Potential involvement in an upcoming issue of Twist Collective;
- Devoting time to building an inventory to sell at Puces Pop this October (hopefully);
- Handpainted spinning fibre. [...]
Archive for the ‘finished object’ Category
brief update
Posted in finished object, knitting, spinning, yarn stores on July 21, 2008 | 1 Comment »
babies everywhere! (and Ariadne Knits)
Posted in finished object, knitting, ravelry, yarn stores on January 9, 2008 | 5 Comments »
I have so many friends who are having kids right now (and oddly, all of them have had girls so far), so it’s bootie/baby sock mania for me. I found this pattern for lacy baby socks and quickly knit up this pair:
The pattern calls for size 0 needles and the smallest I have are [...]
bon voyage, wee tiny socks
Posted in finished object, knitting on November 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
The wee tiny socks, ready for their new role as mail art:
My first attempt at using watercolours since kindergarten. Oh, and that’s a ship diagram between the socks (with navigational lights).
Adventures in felting
Posted in felting, finished object, knitting on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »
I don’t have a lot of experience with felting (or, to be more correct in this case, fulling). In fact, I can only think of one felted object I made before I decided to jump in and make both a felted sheep and a felted bag. Not the easiest task when you only [...]
wee tiny socks
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 [...]
Alpaca toque
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 [...]
Cabled toque
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 [...]
handspun alpaca
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 [...]
Baby Blanket FO
Posted in finished object, knitting on May 26, 2007 | 2 Comments »
Pattern: Estonian Lullaby Baby Blanket, from Fibertrends.
Yarn: Dale Baby Ull, in yellow (a bit more than 6 skeins).
Needles: Size 6 Denise circs.
Notes: I knit this for the recently-born daughter of some friends of mine. It’s not a very practical baby item–the eyelets are the perfect size for catching baby fingers, and the yarn, while machine [...]
Monkey FO
Posted in finished object, knitting on May 26, 2007 | No Comments »
I knit this monkey a while back for a friend’s daughter’s third birthday. She was born in the year of the monkey and has a lot of monkey-themed stuff, so it seemed like a good choice. The pattern was from Fiona McTague’s Knitted Toys, though I substituted Plymouth Encore for the recommended non-machine-washable yarn (seriously, [...]
