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Wool. Yarn. Felt.
2007-12-05 17:17:00 Corriedale wool felts faster than Blue Faced Leicester wool. You know, just in case you were curious. Just, please, don’t ask me how I found out. My desk can’t take my head hitting it much more. paustin bri-bri Otherwise, all is well here. Winding up all of the new, dry yarn into pretty ... More About: Felt , Day To Day , Yarn
Need A Drink?
2007-12-04 20:40:00 How about a Strawberry Daiquiri? paustin bri-bri I’ve got a bunch of quarter pound (~140g still damp, should be ~113g dry ) or larger balls of this very pink yarn to get out of balls and into skein/hanks/whatever-you-want-to-call-the m. Unfortunately for me, and fortunately for whomever buys the bulky of this batch, my yarn measure tends to ... More About: Drink
Spiraling Fireworks - Your Thoughts?
2007-12-02 04:23:00 Curiosity (and my love of how wonderful this sock yarn feels) got the better of me today. Fireworks was in a ball, sitting right there, waiting patiently for re-skeining… I just had to swatch it. It was too much to resist. To tell the truth, I was worried at first - I cast on for ... More About: Thoughts , Work In Progress
The End of NoBloPoMo: What Is Wrong With My Server?
2007-12-01 10:08:00 I’ll admit it: I missed one day. And I’m late today. Three hours late. However, the seven hour nap I just woke up from was needed more than you guys want to know. (I’ve been drop dead tired this week. So much work to do!) paustin bri-bri In addition to being exhausted as a ... More About: Server , Day To Day , Wrong , Serve
What 27.5 Pounds of Yarn Looks Like
2007-11-30 04:37:00 Look what showed up on my doorstep today! paustin bri-bri (It’s bigger than it looks.) And you know what was inside it? TWO of those big bags, and two of the cones on the floor. And just in case you were curious, this is what one pound of bulky weight Blue Faced Leicester looks like… next ... More About: Day To Day , Yarn , Looks
What?s Important
2007-11-29 05:39:00 With all the yarn and dye and blogging business that goes on, sometimes it?s easy to forget those little important moments, the ones that bring tears to your eyes when, years later, you look at your mental snapshots. paustin bri-bri I had one of those moments today. Someone asked me to teach them to ... More About: About , Day To Day
Rudolph the Swift!
2007-11-28 06:24:00 It’s finished! paustin bri-bri All the wood bits on the floor, after going as far as I could yesterday: I had to improvise on the cross beams, since Lowe’s did not carry 1×1 boards. You can see the holes that brought yesterday’s work to a grinding halt: For reference, enlarging a quarter inch hole with a ... More About: Day To Day , Swift , Rudolph
Blog Challenge: ID10T Errata
2007-11-27 03:17:00 Not So Swift paustin bri-bri I am so tired, but staying awake courtesy of Weezer. You wouldn’t think running errands would make you yawning-at-6pm-tired, but today’s did! The good news is that one of those errands began the acquisition of swift bits - thanks in part to an old Lowe’s gift card! I have to ... More About: Blog , Challenge , Day To Day , Halle
Swifts and Design Stuffs
2007-11-26 04:06:00 Swift Lust paustin bri-bri I am seriously considering building a few of these.Up until now, I’ve been using my big ol’ ball winder and a chair. And I really just can’t bring myself to keep doing it. Seriously. I wander over to the winder and chair, pick up a hank of yarn, pet the yarn ... More About: Design , Day To Day
Shop Update: Hank Size Change
2007-11-25 04:59:00 Over the next few days I’ll be re-skeining all of my sock yarn that has not sold, and dividing each skein into two smaller skeins of approximately 225 yd/50g. Each smaller hank will be priced at $12.50 each, instead of the current $25 for the large hank. paustin bri-bri If you want one of ... More About: Change , Shop , Update , Size , Hank
Link Love
2007-11-24 07:15:00 A few Knitty Blogs I Love : paustin bri-bri LilacKnits Wool For Brains And one blog not knitty related; this is a great Blog for Bloggers: ProBlogger More About: Link
Punkin? Pie & Prosperity Listed
2007-11-23 07:53:00 Turkey! paustin bri-bri We’ve had a glorious Thanksgiving here, and the Christmas music has begun. My sister-in-law and I pulled off a nearly perfect Thanksgiving dinner, minus the mashed potatoes. (Never mash potatoes in a Cuisine Art food processor. You won’t get potatoes - you’ll get Elmer’s Wood Glue that tastes like potatoes.) After the ... More About: Day To Day , Prosperity , Listed
Short Because I?m Talked Out!
2007-11-21 06:56:00 I have spent most, ok ALL, of the day chattering away with my sister-in-law. She’s the wife of my husband’s brother, who happens to be US Military as well, but a different branch, so we have some fairly substantial common ground… in addition to, ya know, being married to our husband’s brother. Plus we both ... More About: Day To Day , Short
BC #3: Dream Chasing
2007-11-20 07:20:00 I’ve got a lot of little odd things I’m afraid of. Pool drains and pool lights, for starters… and I was a competitive swimmer clear until college. I’m not so fond of bridges or being suspended from heights by cords or cables either. You won’t find me bungee jumping. Or sky diving. Or on most ... More About: About , Dream
Blog Challenge #3: Terror
2007-11-19 02:19:00 Blog Challenge : Terror paustin bri-bri This one is pretty open. If it scared the ever loving daylights out of you, if it make you weak in the knees, if it had you running for the safely of your bedsheets… but you did it anyway, it counts. Tell me The Story of Why. No photo today ... More About: Blog , Halle
Prosperity and a Sneak Peek Yarn!
2007-11-18 06:12:00 Introducing… Prosperity ! paustin bri-bri Hand painted in shades of green, with shimmering highlights of gold. Approximately 450 yards of merino, bamboo and nylon fingering weight yarn, complete with dyed zip tie! *grin* (This hank should be in The Shop on Monday.) And a sneak peek at the yarn coming up this week… I have a thing for reds. ... More About: Sneak Peek , Yarn , Peek
FO: Paul?s Socks in Summer Solstice
2007-11-17 01:33:00 I’m not sure how many of you remember Summer Solstice , from way back this summer… paustin bri-bri but it was spun and dyed for the sole purpose of becoming socks for my oldest son. He got to pick the colors, and would regularly check on the progress of ‘Paul ’s Socks ’ as I was knitting. By ... More About: Day To Day
Fiber FAQ: Dyeing Yarn With Zip Ties
2007-11-15 20:53:00 I love to dye yarn. I hate to untangle yarn. But you know what? Invariably, the dyeing of yarn is followed by at least one hour of untangling yarn. I could avoid most of it by simply being very, very, very careful with the yarn when dyeing it. But as most dyers know, to really ... More About: Fiber , Yarn
Viral Knitting
2007-11-15 04:05:00 Yarn News paustin bri-bri Finished Prosperity. It’s drying right now and will be reskeined tomorrow, barring the Apocalypse. In addition to Prosperity, a currently unnamed (and new!) yarn is waiting for it’s second round of dyeing. Another to reskein tomorrow, and hopefully I’ll get to list one or both on Etsy before Friday ... More About: Viral , Day To Day , Knitting
Blogger Challenge #2: This Yarn, These Needles
2007-11-13 23:11:00 Blogger Challenge : Describe a crafting-related moment of zen. What did it mean to you? Did you learn anything from it? paustin bri-bri I just want to sit and knit. I have a small ball of what was leftover from the big cone. Merino, bamboo and nylon. Fingering weight. It’s not a lot of yarn, but it’s enough to play with, enough ... More About: Blogger , Day To Day , Yarn , Halle
?I Can?t Be Fired, Slaves Are SOLD?
2007-11-13 03:56:00 Today has just been one of those days! Some yarn dyed. Completely crashed after grocery shopping - gotta love Ninja Napping. Tomorrow is an Etsy listing day. I don’t have a heck of a lot more interesting than that to say, but I’m not giving up on my NoMo’s and Project 365, so here. Let’s ... More About: Slaves , Fired , Day To Day , Sold , Aves
NoSomethingToDoMo
2007-11-12 03:20:00 November has become the month of NoSome thingToDoMo. Journal daily, blog daily, photo a day, a sweater a month, a novel a month, a sock a week… there are as many NoMo events as there are projects! Not one to miss out on this community-fueled means to pick up productive habits, I’ve been trying to keep ...
Li?l Squish in Blue Nebula
2007-11-11 06:21:00 So I went ahead and named the fingering weight yarn. Li’l Squish. The worsted will probably be Squishy. Big Squish, Bitty Squish, and so on. Because I am that much of a yarn nerd. paustin bri-bri Anyway, I finally have pictures of the long awaited Blue Nebula . Well, long awaited for me. It ... More About: Bula
Inspiration: Colors
2007-11-10 07:04:00 paustin bri-bri This one dresses himself. (: Day To Day , Project 365 More About: Inspiration , Colors
Etsy Listing: Fireworks!
2007-11-09 02:59:00 I went ahead and listed one skein of Fireworks in the Etsy shop tonight. It is, unfortunately, not my best photography of that particular hank of yarn, but it serves it’s purpose until I get my lightbox set up again. paustin bri-bri I still like this shot better: bamboo, etsy, fireworks, for sale., Shop News!, ... More About: Listing
Work In Progress - Just A Picture
2007-11-08 05:52:00 paustin bri-bri Yarn Porn More About: Work , Picture , Progress , Work In Progress
Boiled Yarn!
2007-11-07 01:08:00 You would think that the most time consuming part of hand dyeing yarn would be dyeing the yarn. Mixing and applying the dye to aforementioned yarn, in theory should take a good chunk of time, and for me it does. But the amount of time spent actually dyeing the yarn pales in comparison to the ... More About: About , Yarn
My Bright Ideas
More articles from this author:2007-11-06 03:57:00 I’ve been struggling to find an efficient way to dye lots of yarn at the same time. My biggest issues? Having to mix dye too often, and not having enough containers for all the colors. The yarn was also getting tangled while dyeing… and I needed a space efficient way to dry the yarn so ... More About: Ideas , Bright Ideas , Bright 1, 2, 3, 4, 5, 6 |
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