tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-28071194577013768642024-03-12T21:24:30.879-05:00Balanced Knittingseeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.comBlogger115125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-2610178339566256922012-07-18T19:00:00.000-05:002012-07-18T22:25:15.291-05:00Work space cleared. We aim to be productive.
A few weeks ago my sister came to town and took it upon herself to organize my craft room. Well, she offered and I took her up on it before she could change her mind. Here’s where I’d show you the evidence of the horrible, horrible mess at the beginning of the project in order for you to be amazed by the progress and the prettiness at the end. But those pictures have gone walk about (or maybe Iseeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-13156572176088407332012-06-26T06:30:00.000-05:002012-06-26T18:30:02.132-05:00Baby Shower and Drawings... not at the same time.This past weekend I helped host a baby shower. The mommy to be was
beautiful and glowing, the guests were lovely, and we had more than
enough food. Party success! My co-hostess has
already written an eloquent post, and you should read it there. She gave me way more credit than I deserve. And doesn’t mention all the
reconnaissance she ran, finding a bunch of different possible venues,
and seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-55974961704575990072012-06-20T19:15:00.000-05:002012-06-20T19:17:19.690-05:00More like guidelines, really.I’ve
given up on writing the pattern (in the traditional sense) for the baby blanket that I designed. Instead, I've got some guidelines:NOTE: What follows are the guidelines for how I made THIS blanket. Underneath I've written other guidelines should I do it again. You might want to check those before you cast on.
Cast on 102 stitches using the provisional method. (Even though the
pattern seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com6tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-80856637031034463262012-06-09T19:00:00.000-05:002012-06-10T13:26:47.048-05:00Instead...I was going to finish writing up the bits of blanket pattern that I've talked about... But I went to this instead:
The Intergalactic Nemesis Book 2: Robot Planet Rising
I could do a poor job explaining it, or you could click on the link above where they'll explain it very well. It was playing at The Long Center, and the first book has toured at least 30 cities. It was fabulous, and if it comesseeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-18097845547019169272012-06-02T18:44:00.000-05:002012-06-10T23:17:33.828-05:00Why I learned to watermark and blur.If you are solely interested in knitting and yoga, you might want to skip today's post. Don't worry I'll be back to spinning fiber or blocking baby blankets next time.
We live in a time of Pinterest. I use it to create idea boards so I can find that one website that had that pattern that I'll never find again without keeping a ton of tabs open. This is a fabulous thing. I also use it to gather seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-27405701644370820742012-05-23T19:00:00.000-05:002012-06-23T22:51:59.650-05:00The Age of Brass and Steam
I love this pattern.
There are different kinds of knitters. There those are who knit to meditate,
those who knit for the end product, and those who knit to learn a new process. There may be other types out there, but these are enough for our purposes. I'm a process knitter. I look at
some knitting pattern and think “I want to make that.” The product
knitters think “I want to have seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-26938741789714446672012-05-17T22:00:00.000-05:002012-05-17T22:57:22.114-05:00My true enemies revealed.I got skin tested for allergies today. They scratched my back, and then shot allergens into my arms. I willingly underwent this procedure. My allergies have gotten that bad. Worse, I had to be off allergy medicine for the past three days.
I've been spinning, and I've got pictures of a shawl to show you. I made it for my mom for Mother's Day. But not this week. This week I'm going to eat iceseeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-7789686324550205542012-05-12T22:00:00.000-05:002012-05-13T11:37:44.540-05:00stream of consciousness: cleaning and coffeeI spent two hours Thursday, and two hours tonight, cleaning the craft room. I've found that 1 cup of coffee = two hours motivation. It's almost ten o'clock at night, and I'm contemplating having another cup. It is Saturday.
I'm happy to be staying in on a Saturday night to clean. Is that grown-up, sad, or just OCD?
I've been to three graduations in three weeks. None of them were in Austin. One seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-89326170447679873882012-05-09T20:00:00.000-05:002012-05-11T21:10:47.527-05:00Denver!This past weekend DH and I went to Denver, Colorado to visit a friend who was graduating. It was a blast! We saw the
midnight showing of Avengers, got mani/pedis, ate like there was no
tomorrow, survived a completely unexpected hail storm, saw Avengers,
again, and we were generally rather silly. We also made it to a LYS by
the name of Lamb Shoppe. Here are the pictures to prove it.
Upon seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-13075860683991833432012-05-02T20:00:00.000-05:002012-05-02T22:35:47.175-05:00Daydream, meet Reality.I wrote about the designing class I took a few weeks ago, but the result
didn’t feel right so I didn’t post it. I’ve thought it over since, so
I’ve taken another stab at it.
I had high hopes for the Designing for Beginners class. I’d just
taken the dyeing class and I felt I was moving forward in my
quest for fiber mastery. One of the many things I’ve daydreamed* about
being is a knitwear seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-35930489488071901532012-04-09T20:00:00.001-05:002012-05-04T12:56:32.497-05:00Dying to DyeInstead of dyeing Easter eggs this year I thought I'd give yarn a try. I know, you're shocked. It was at Gauge, and taught by Doug from White Bear Fibers.
I was rather excited about the class - there had been other yarn dyeing
opportunities, but the timing had never worked out. I had taken the indigo class,
but I hadn’t gotten to play with other colors. And so, when I learned I
could bring myseeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-63351341431974405522012-04-05T20:00:00.000-05:002012-04-16T23:14:21.118-05:00The Knitting Nest (in Nevada)We recently went skiing at Heavenly (a resort next to Lake Tahoe).
It was well named.
While there, we just happened across* a cute little yarn store. There’s a Ravelry iPhone app called yarnphone; it’s been very helpful in discovering the nearest LYS. I do recommend calling the yarn stores first, as I don’t think the app is updated if a store closes down.
The store was a bit out seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-45189476187372430932012-04-02T20:02:00.129-05:002012-04-10T22:35:59.432-05:00Needle exchangeI broke a circular needle. I broke it while working on the baby blanket in the car on the way to visit my Grandmother in Houston. I was upset, not surprised; it’s the third (THIRD!) needle to break while working on this blanket. All of them were Addi turbos, and all of them were bought at the same store*. I think there was a bad batch. All the other Addis I’ve owned have stood up to the seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-23824891007260177722012-03-27T20:00:00.021-05:002012-06-19T21:05:53.171-05:00Turning a cornerThe finished swatch of the lace edging.
I think it turned out well.
I went with the stockinette rather than the original garter. The garter hid the pattern too much. I had to redo the chart a third time; there was a mistake I didn’t catch until I got to the tenth row.
Five repeats of the lace edging per side should add enough lace, without overdoing it. The math is easy enough: 72 rows per seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-34004598731648140982012-03-23T20:00:00.004-05:002012-03-27T14:31:26.807-05:00North Dallas LYSA few weeks ago, while visiting friends in Dallas, I happened upon Holley’s Yarn Shoppe.
The ball of yarn with needles through it for the ‘o’ is a metal sculpture. Isn’t it neat?
Okay, so I didn't happen upon it so much as pump my friend for information as to where the nearest yarn store was and drag him and DH to it. When you enter the shop there’s a reading nook where you can browse seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-57422892878025752132012-03-14T20:00:00.013-05:002012-06-19T21:06:28.852-05:00Uncharted MessWhen last we left our intrepid knitter she was contemplating charts and lace edging. Specifically the No. 3 For Grace McGregor lace edging. From what she could make out peering at the little bitty black and white photo, she thought that it might be the edging she was looking for. There were triangles at the edge and squares in the middle and a zigzag line in between that, should everything seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-58781252862801822392012-03-08T20:00:00.001-06:002012-03-08T20:47:02.031-06:00Living on the edgeWhen I first started this baby blanket journey, I went searching for lace centers. I came across quite a few edgings that I thought were pretty but I was focused on the center. Now that I’ve found the center and finished it, I’ve been indulging in lace edgings. This is putting the cart before the horse because I want to do a bit in between the center and the edge, but I figured that I’d needseeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-46428771182858174582012-03-01T20:00:00.000-06:002012-03-01T22:44:52.367-06:00Center found!I’ve found my center.
Well, I’ve found the center of the baby blanket. My center requires way more yoga.
It went from being this big about two weeks ago.
To this big, now.
The center is done. The stitch pattern is Heatherbee’s Honeycomb.
Next time: Lace edgings and very old patterns.seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-57299928065501507712012-02-21T19:00:00.001-06:002012-02-21T19:15:09.746-06:00Happy Mardi Gras!I had a fabulous yoga session tonight. I'm wonderfully relaxed. And now DH and I are going out for pancakes!
Eating pancakes on Fat Tuesday is traditional because they are made up of all the tasty things people (used to) give up for Lent. No one I know, outside my immediate family, has ever heard of this tradition. When I tell people I'm having pancakes for Mardi Gras I get the weirdest looks. seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-59417639781733099072012-02-16T20:00:00.002-06:002012-02-16T21:17:20.480-06:00Looking for a balanced center.I’ve been making swatches*. A lot of them. I originally pulled nine different stitch patterns as options for the center of the baby blanket. I just finished my twelfth.
I got a picture of these on the one day it was sunny this week. Pretty, right?
I’m searching for a balance. Balance between how it feels to knit and how it looks, between interesting to knit and not too intricate, between cozy seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-35498941578694248082012-02-13T20:00:00.002-06:002012-02-13T20:17:06.192-06:00I can't stop partying, partying...Friday night we went downtown to see the Minor Mishap Marching Band. The doors were supposed to open at 9:30pm, Antone's didn't let us in until 10:30. Not a big deal, except that we were supposed to be at a different party at 11pm. So we didn’t get to see the band, but hanging out in the line was a lot of fun.
We left downtown to change into our superhero costumes, so didn’t make it to the seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-27609071858935659342012-02-07T20:00:00.000-06:002012-02-09T21:38:12.152-06:00February ResolutionsI’ve been a bit off lately. Not down, just a bit off. There are different possible causes for this feeling. I’ve recently developed a taste for coffee and, since we acquired a single serve coffeemaker, I’ve begun to indulge my taste by having a cup in the morning. It’s not a lot of caffeine, but I’m instantly awake rather than slowly waking up over a cup of tea. Another possible cause is not seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-57276718602909996702012-02-02T20:00:00.002-06:002012-02-02T22:53:41.483-06:00I'm excited about swatching. No really, I am!I recently found out that another friend is expecting. And I've quite a few ideas for the baby blanket I want to make. It is time for me to design my own pattern. (I'm a little nervous.) I've a few lace ideas for the center, so I'll be posting pictures of swatches as they are done. I bought the yarn I plan on using today. I've got a lace shawl for me on the needles, a crochet scarf I'm working onseeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-20003116384517756372012-01-31T20:00:00.002-06:002012-01-31T20:40:53.368-06:00Cunning hats.Remember those Jayne hats I mentioned? Well, here they are minus pompoms.
They'd be more cunning if they had pompoms.
Should I ever decide to make a Jayne hat for myself this is absolutely the yarn I’m going to use for it. (Lamb's Pride bulky in Autumn Harvest, Sunburst Gold and Rust.) It’s a perfect match, and it feels so much better than the acrylic* I used to make DH’s hat. Here’s a seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-2807119457701376864.post-38671617022097815432012-01-26T20:00:00.018-06:002012-01-26T21:30:00.873-06:00In which we present a pattern.First, here are some blurry pictures of the necklaces I made for friends for Christmas:
I took this with my phone right before a gave it away.
Same with this one.
I got the idea for these because I wanted to knit a couple of Chevettes, but I'd run out of time. So, I decided I could probably come up with something that was similar, only in crochet. And so the seeherknithttp://www.blogger.com/profile/06033407285619077554noreply@blogger.com3