October 2010 Blog Posts (41)

We finally did our Dye Along with the sock blanks! Yay!

So I finally dyed my lace weight from KP yesterday using red and yellow onions! Here are the results.…

The trick or treater is visiting a relative in another state. I wonder who will show up at my door and whether they can get through the snow!

I may have gotten a little ahead of myself last month, to put it mildly. I have wanted to spin for such a long time and now it is finally happening! Like most of you, I have really gotten wrapped up with the SAL here. (A big thank you Fairy God-knitters!) At first I just read along, trying to absorb what was being said. Then I started asking some questions. Needless to say, some were really quite dumb, but they got answered anyway. I checked a bunch of…

I thought about posting photos of this in the Spin-a-Long, then decided I better just add a blog about it since I have almost the whole process in photo form here. :) I'm really enjoying spinning on my spindles. Nutty4Knitting said it takes 10 minutes to learn, but takes a lifetime of practice. Well, I'm going to share with you why I need to keep practicing. You might remember the fiber I dyed with koolaid? I dyed one sleeve of Knit Picks Bare Wool of the Andes, let it dry and then…

I have been preparing for about a month to visit my DD and her family in Phoenix, AZ… I will be leaving very early Wednesday morning, and will stay until next Tuesday. My DD has taken an extra week off from her job as an R.N. to spend this time with me. I am so excited! I…

OK we are just going to jump right into things. This was going to be for Wednesday but I finished it and so I clicked the publish button. Who knows it could be Wednesday when you read this or you get two posts in one day tonight. Its mainly playing catch up so hopefully my blog post will not be so long. Then maybe it will be easier for me to post more often without having these long time lapse between posts.

First the update.…

Can you see that? I tried so hard to take a good picture of it. This is the best I could do. See that? Yep that is our very own dear friend Cheryl Waters!! Squeal you know you want to. I did.

Yes Cheryl's pattern. OK I know what your going to say Cheryl. Your variation of the pattern (still its you) is in this book.…

Since I finished the Hemi I have had terrible knitting luck. My patience has been stretched; I have screamed and actually cried over the knitting. My brain too has been stretched and so has my knitting knowledge and skill. I have been challenged and disappointed.…