I want to make another felted tote, one to use in October. I have lots of wool, but in your basic colors of earthy or christmas, but no Orange.
Get out a skein of commerical merino wool in white, add a package of orange koolaid and lots of drops of yellow and red food coloring [...]
Archive for July, 2005
Please bring in the Orange….
Posted in Uncategorized on July 21, 2005 | 2 Comments »
Same answer twice…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
You are Mohair.You are a warm and fuzzy type who works well withothers, doing your share without being tooweighty. You can be stubborn and absolutelyrefuse to change your position once it is set,but that’s okay since you are good at coveringup your mistakes.
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Flower Basket Shawl
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
With the Cozy on the way off the needles, then my wonderful, I love you “Bamboo” yarn for my Branching Out next in line for completion, I felt I needed to ditch the Alpaca Cloud I started my Flower Basket Shawl with for another “Bamboo” yarn.
Friday is the Knitty girls meetup in Seattle…yeah. [...]
Stash reduction…oh, so easy…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I was in a cleaning mood after swimming lessons and the carwash thing. I came home and dived into my yarn stash. DD#1 found several projects she would like to make from the SnB Nation book I brought home from the library (I have hundreds of books, this will not be one for [...]
Today I’m gettin’ "Cozy"….
Posted in Uncategorized on July 20, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
and each morning I take my little basket with my Cozy and my pattern in hand to swimming lessons, where I get a completed 8 row repeat done while swimming is in session and then another two rows while dd#2 gets cleaned up and dressed. Good progress for three mornings in a row. [...]
Cozy in progress…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
Ok, about 1/3 of the way there or just a bit more…at 24″ in length as of this evening. I was able to get one whole repeat set done during swimming lessons and even stayed on track with the noise and the humidity in the pool area sitting on the bleachers.
Whew…warm one [...]
OSW #3 and Marsupial Tote Felted
Posted in Uncategorized on July 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Wanted to get pics up before leaving for swimming lessons. Whew, woke up at 5 am, load laundry, veg garden and hanging baskets watered, I even ironed my plaid summer dress to wear today, what a mom, eh?
Looking forward to SP5 on the Knitty Board. This will give me a very good reason [...]
More FO’s….
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
I’m on a roll folks. I felted the Marsupial Tote and I like it. Though it’s a double strand, one each of Jo Sharp Silk Road Tweed (has silk in it) and Alice Starmore, the handle seems a bit floppy to my taste. Most likely due to some of the silk, not [...]
Marsupial Tote – Before Felting
Posted in Uncategorized on July 17, 2005 | Leave a Comment »
After reading a post yesterday on the Knitty board, I had to look up the Marsupial Tote in the first SnB book. I needed a little something to take to the neighborhood bbq to work on at around the firepit. Well, here it is, a real good “stash buster” and only a 24 [...]
Dog (cat) days of summer…
Posted in Uncategorized on July 15, 2005 | 1 Comment »
Ok…one more month and I’m back to work. Now on Yarn Diet Diet, did fairly well yesterday, though one should not be drinking coffee late at night.
Max and Cloud seem to be enjoying a nice nap together this mid-day Friday. Time to play a little “Buckaroo” with them?
Two rows into [...]
