Thoughts, tips and rambles about knitting and performance of music.
Friday, December 11, 2015
My favorite morning
Thursday, December 10, 2015
Tuesday, December 8, 2015
Six Years of Blogging
And look how our backyard has no snow, but a nice dusting on the neighbor's yard. That's because his yard is exposed and ours has trees to block the wind.
Sunday, December 6, 2015
Happy birthday caching
Update: From Late October
Thursday, December 3, 2015
New top - Finch's Wings
A fun pattern, and a fun story behind it.
First yarn, then pattern, then four months later a change in yarn as my mind imagines something else.
Knitters beware! The tactile senses of yarn shopping, made me do it...along with 8 other knitters standing nearby, shopping, making encouraging shopping noises, peer pressure for sure... It was a summer day in Warsaw NY, summer knit camp outing... do you see where I'm going? The yarn was yummy, and since I had the yearn for yarn, I also had the yearn for a pattern (booklet) that featured that yarn... hence, Finch's Wings was born. Yet when I opened the booklet, I had other stashed yarn in mind, that I had purchased years before... and now, I'm not totally happy with my choice.
The pattern looks lovely after blocking, however, to really enjoy it, I will have to crochet a little something around the neckline. It's a bit too wide, and tends to slip off my shoulders. And I used up all of the yarn so it will be trimmed with a contrasting complimenting color.
A note about the yarn:
by Regia
Lace / 2 ply
71% Wool, 29% Nylon
656 yards / 100 grams
Link to my Ravelry page HERE.
My expectations of what the colorway would look like surprised me, and not in a good way, but it is what it is, and I think I will learn to like it. Just not what I expected.
The Pattern:
Meanwhile, the yummy yarn awaits...plenty of nice patterns in the booklet...
Friday, November 6, 2015
The Harvest!
My spooky neighbors! They (she) LOVES Halloween, and begins with a few things at the beginning of October. By Halloween night that house across the street is crammed full of bodies and pumpkins (only 59 this year), and lights. It's a spectacle, and a great one!
The time came a few weeks ago, to pick most of the tomatoes from my one plant. When I lifted the towel which has been giving a little extra night-time protection, I found a preying mantis cocoon. I love those guys! They are so ferocious, the way they eerily turn their heads to stare you down, and give you the creeps... and they take care of many garden pests, so I would like this one to survive. I carefully replaced it and will remain as patio decor over the winter.
Still thriving, I decided to put the tomatoes in the garage, and have canned tomatoes and onions for the future.
Halloween? This is all of the decorating I can muster...
Above photos from October 23, 2015. Since then, we've had frost.
Wednesday, November 4, 2015
Scraps socks
What I need to carry with me for those "down" times: Waiting for appointments, in between gigs when I don't want to go home...
My thrifty nature is satisfied: It's called stash busting the remnants of other socks.
Combining these two yarns, randomly with purpose, colors are pleasing to me. I haven't found many remnants that I wouldn't accept in pairings. And no pattern except 2x2 ribbing, trading yarns every row or every other row. When I get to the end of the row, I play genius and decide if I switch or continue. Since both yarns have many colors, my mood determines what I do next. I wonder if it will work for two socks...?
Yarns:
by Lang Yarns
Fingering / 4 ply
75% Wool, 18% Nylon, 7% Acrylic
206 yards / 50 grams
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