A few weeks ago I was doing some dyeing and I was really into blues. This stuff was spun up awhile ago and I just got around to taking photos. So here is the yarn…
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This is about 4.5 oz and 138 yds of pippiplied falklands. One single is dyed aqua, sky blue, and dark blue and the other is white and light blue. I love this yarn. |
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130yds and ~100g of thick and thin Falklands painted with blues and browns. |
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Twin skeins of thick and thin falklands painted aqua and brown. It would have been 1 big skein if my jumbo flyer had worked right. See below for more on that! |
* A note of Ashford Kiwi Jumbo Flyers
I had purchased a jumbo flyer for my kiwi. I got it followed the assembly instructions and had tons of problems. The assembly seemed to short and it would wobble and pop off. Finally I got in touch with the seller and after awhile they concluded that they would exchange it for me. They asked that I send it back to the distributor with a copy of the email I sent describing the problem. I wanted to be sure I had everything down so I decided to use it once more before i sent it back.
As I was reassembling it I noticed that the flyer bearing was not centered in the wood. So if I flipped it the other way (ashford logo facing in) then it would be in effect shorter. So I did that and lo and behold it stopped slipping off! This is a defect with the product as the instructions clearly state that the flyer bearing should have the logo facing out.
July 20th, 2006
I have a rather perverse habit of knitting things nearly to completion that I knew I was going to frog a quarter of the way in. It’s often that I just want to see how it would turn out even though there’s something about it I hate.
So yesterday was an example of my perverse knitting. I’m working on knitting an earflap hat for a friend. I’ve done beanies but never earflaps. I don’t want to do them in garter, but I knew that stockinette would curl. So I used my google fu and came up with ….the Earflap Hat Pattern Generator!
I swatched and gauged and all that jazz and started knitting. I didn’t do the increases. Instead I cast on the final amount of stitches (post increase) and knit the inner band on size 9 needles, then switched to 10.5s on the outer part of the hat. I just got the hang of short rows on the socks I’m working on, so it was pretty easy to do the short row earflaps for this hat. It’s a clever way of doing them too. However after finishing them I knew they were too small. Yes, they were big enough to cover your ears, but they were not in proportion to the hat. But I kept knitting to see how they looked overall. Then I marked where they should be and frogged.
Then I stared over again last night. Originally it was 78 stitches - 12 for the back, 18 for each earflap and 30 in the front. I wanted it to be a bit bigger so I started with 84 stitches - 14 for the back, 26 for each earflap and 18 for the front. I just started the first earflap so I’ll have to see if that works out.
July 19th, 2006
Crocheters and knitters from the US, Europe and more sent in 15″ squares to create this pink tank cozy in protest of the war in Iraq. The squares were sewn together in front of the Nikolaj Contemporary Art Cente in Copenhagen, Denmark. Read more here.
July 12th, 2006