For my current needle felt piece, I changed up a couple things. First, I’m using a thinner pre-felt (the backing). The first set I ordered prior to the needle felt class is, frankly, a bit too thick. It makes a great finished piece because it feels nice and sturdy, but… Read More »Return to the North Face
I’ve been making steady progress on my lace shawl. Of course, it doesn’t really look like much progress. It is fairly slow going, but also it’s just a long crumpled snake of unblocked lace at this point. I’ve been marking progress with locking stitch markers after every five repeats, so… Read More »Progress Measured in Beads
Sometimes, I forget that art can be really really hard. Some of you may be thinking “well, no duh” but I mean more than just the technical side. Of course, that part can be quite hard, but it’s the sort of hard I’m good at dealing with. I have good… Read More »Fear or “Art is Hard”
I am happy to report that my Knit Stars 5.0 purchases, aka “all my 2020 Yarn Budget” arrived safely. Even better? Customs had no trouble calculating what I owed so they could deliver it straight to me instead of requiring that I go to the customs office. Slightly awkward? I… Read More »Some quick updates
On Saturday, my Shetland “Rainbow” arrived in the post. It’s exactly as I was hoping, with a wide range of bright, but not neon bright, colors. It also finally supplied me with a bit of grey fiber, which I was sorely lacking. Sadly, this braid never had a chance to… Read More »Cetatea Neamtului
For months now one of my knitting projects has been languishing in it’s project bag, untouched. This isn’t so much because I didn’t want to work on it, as that I feared working on it. It’s a lace shawl with a heavily beaded edging. I’m still working on the edging,… Read More »Brave or foolish?
Last weekend I did a little strategic stash augmenting. First, I ordered a rainbow braid of Shetland wool from The Caledonian Wool Co. The shop is owned by Jam, an awesome person I met last year at Shetland Wool Week. Her shop opened just weeks later in Fort Williams. Funnily…… Read More »Paint Box
A little while ago, I mentioned my plans to make a totally kick-ass bright knit jacket from several of the Clan of Igor colors I received in the spring. I knit up my gauge swatch, washed it, measured it… and then sat on it for a while as I slowly… Read More »Drat you gauge!
I really enjoyed the felt painting workshop. So much so, that I’ve nearly completed two more pieces. My first was taken from a photo from our hike up the North Face of Ben Nevis early last October. It’s a bit strange that it’s already been almost a year since then,… Read More »Revisiting last years vacations
I finished my WestKnits “Clawed” shawl about a week ago. It was definitely an excellent project to work while integrating a kitten into the household. All the following made it easy to put down quickly if a kitten was getting himself into trouble, whether knitting related or other trouble. simple… Read More »A good kitten project
