Well, I made the mistake of trying to take a picture of it on this stool, HER stool (apparently), which is in my kitchen, and Lucie, being not pleased with the situation, jumped up and sat there belligerently. When I asked her what was up, she gave me a blank look. "What?"

If that happy kid thinks he's getting my stool he's got another thing coming.

My future production spinners get acquainted with their tools.

They think it's a toy. Of course they used to think sugar packets and toothpicks were toys too.

Not that I have a point. Just FYI, it's a slow day here!

Hi Carolyn,

Here's the side cable on your sweater:

Bring on the hood!

Leigh

I finally took some time to finish spinning the yarn for the rest of these fingerless mittens because I am in dire need of some fingerless mittens come Winter. (Carolyn, what say you?)

The second skein of yarn was a little different spun up, but I can't really tell now that it's all knit up. Kind of makes me rethink all the energy I put into making exactly balanced yarns. Heck, why am I even bothering to ply at all? (Because it's fun! It's the best part!)

Fiber dyed by Lynne Vogel

Click for another view.

I like that they don't match. They sort of match in their unmatchedness. But then that means they match. But I don't like things to match.

Magickal Earth Shawl
VW bus* is shown for scale.

This is just a swatch to see if I like this yarn (Jaggerspun 2/14 Wool/Alpaca).

*please to note it is a Matchbox-sized VW

Closure!
1. Finished this (see side for more info):

Click for another view.

2. Started this (see side again):

Hi to everyone who stopped by at the Mannings on Saturday to say, "Hi!"

I'll be demonstrating olde tyme flax processing and spinning with my friend this Saturday at the Mannings 37th Annual Spinning Seminar. Come say hello! I'll be the one in the funny hat spinning.

Or course, I bet there will be a few of us there in funny hats spinning.

I've been working on some lace lately in between all my sewing and whatnot. It's sort of addictive.

This is the Buffalo Girl neck thing (not a big fan of the name btw) from the most recent Interweave Knits. I've gotten all the knitting done and now the directions are directing me to crochet.

Guess this might sit around until I learn to crochet a little...

A chemise

A chemise sleeve

Now you really must be wondering.

Huh?

I actually finished it and she's actually wearing it.

PS: Look Ma, no hat!

Persuading her that the pockets were a great place to keep straws did the trick. Surprise! I was, pardon the expression, grasping at straws during my attempts to convince her to wear it, and found a straw conveniently sitting on the table. And before you know it I snapped up the straw and was waving it around and was saying, "LOOK! You can put a straw in the pocket."

Whoop de doo!

And before I realized it, she'd said, "Okay!"

This is my progress on that Joy sweater from Kim Hargreaves. Imagine this piece all done and then me seeing I made a mistake 4 inches from the bottom. And remember, the title there says "thrice" so by deductive reasoning, you can figure that this almost successful attempt was already the second time I'd knit this piece!

Anyway, onto thrice:

The name of this sweater is a misnomer.

If this sweater pattern does one thing for me, it makes me feel like I just started knitting. The eyelet pattern is written row by row instead of chart form. And you get to a row and it will say "As rows 1-13." So you go to rows 1-13 and in there it says for rows 7-12, "As rows 1-6" Augh! I can't keep track.

Where was I?

Anyway, I did make a chart of my own eventually, but not before wondering a lot of things I won't write out here.

whine whine whine

I got a few odd looks when I whipped out my lucet at McDonald's the other day.

Combining an obscure medieval cording technique with the ubiquitious* Big Mac. Or Quarter Pounder. Take your pick. (Yes, I am calling mass produced food for the masses a genre. That's funny!)

If there is KIP, knitting in public, then this must be LIP, luceting in public. At least nobody gave me that "you are such a grandma" look I get when knitting. Not that I care!

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*PS: "Did you bring a pen?" "Well! Don't forget to bring ubiquitious!" hahah--get it?

(is this being lame or just being insane lite?)