This Saturday was World Wide Knit in Public Day. The Berkley Knitters made a good show of it and we headed out to a local park to enjoy the sunshine (although we all forgot sunscreen and ended up a bit pink).
There was a great spread with chocolate chip cookies, couscous salad, brie, baguette, tomatoes, cherries, [...]
The touch, the feel! Cotton is one of the most used fibers in the world, from your BVDs to your Egyptian 3,000 thread count sheets and your stonewashed whiskered bootcut low rise jeans.
The journey from field to garment is quite an amazing one, but I want to get a bit closer, if you know what [...]
Another dye experiment in acid dye blues for Libby. She is keeping this one.
We played around with the drum carder that I rescued from my mom who hasn’t used it in years. We were pretty impressed how the random end bits of roving Libby had became nice fluffy batts. Can’t wait for Libby to try [...]
Well, I had started the front of the Sidelines Top, now I have re-started it. Last night at knit-night it became clear that the height to my gauge had gotten to big so I was past the point I needed to start decreaseing and I realized I had miss worked the M1s so I had [...]
I finally got some of the photos off the of camera! Here are some of the things I have been working on:
The Sidelines Top saga continues, I am working on the front and am at the decreases for the waist. Now that I can work the cable pattern by site rather then having to check [...]
A little while back, the same day in fact as the making of the stockings, my friend Libby and I decided we needed to to try a little experiment with some wool yarn I had gotten in a yarn swap. The yarn we wanted to dye is wound in those little pats that aren’t really [...]
So do you remember that yummy looking yak and merino roving that I got at Color from A Verb for Keeping Warm? Well I have been busy on the wheel lately and it is now a lovely fingering/lace weight yarn.
I also finally got the last bit of the Plumber plyed and am now trying to [...]
This past Sunday was a big day at Meridian Jacobs Farm, it was shearing day for the 50 or so Jacob sheep raised by Robin and Dan Lynde. I drove out with my knitting friend Marissa and her family. The farm is out near Vacaville and it is a lovely drive through the hills and [...]
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