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Well, You Wanted Pictures!
2008-05-10 00:23:00 I was very lovingly informed that I really should post more pictures. Preferably of yarn. Ok! It was a rather nice day today, and the sock yarn was really starting to feel neglected, so out came the sock yarn! Unfortunately, the sun was out full force, so most of the pictures of the yarn are a ...
Combat Boot Socks
2008-05-08 21:58:00 Woot! Pictures today! First off, the in-progress Combat Boot Socks: What’s that you say? Are those cables? Why, yes they are! I’m still not sure if I like cabling in black yarn. Or maybe it’s just the size of these cables, which really are just crossed stiches. I won’t be frogging, but I’m thinking no more cables. Not ...
May Goals - Your Thoughts?
2008-05-05 00:25:00 I usually don’t make my monthly goals public. But this month is a bit different. You see, I need your feedback on a few things… some rather important things, too. I guess I should explain, huh? Over the past couple of months or four, I’ve been seriously looking at expanding the types of yarn in the ...
Well, I HAVE Been Knitting?
2008-04-23 05:22:00 But I’ve been ‘coding’ more than I’ve been knitting, and despite my best intentions when it came to taking photos and writing about how the Combat Boot Socks are coming along… and the funky, creative things I’ve been thinking about doing with that pattern… I got ‘coding’ and lost track of time. So even though I’ve ...
Well, I HAVE Been Knitting?
2008-04-23 05:22:00 But I’ve been ‘coding’ more than I’ve been knitting, and despite my best intentions when it came to taking photos and writing about how the Combat Boot Socks are coming along… and the funky, creative things I’ve been thinking about doing with that pattern… I got ‘coding’ and lost track of time. So even though I’ve ...
Soccus Versus Machina
2008-04-21 04:37:00 Right, well. I’m having doubts that the Combat Boot socks will actually fit my husband. However, I am holding back on frogging (a second time) because he says his socks do not actually fit him skin tight, so some loose spots are not a bad thing. I guess 80 stitches on US 1’s should in ...
Soccus Versus Machina
2008-04-21 04:37:00 Right, well. I’m having doubts that the Combat Boot socks will actually fit my husband. However, I am holding back on frogging (a second time) because he says his socks do not actually fit him skin tight, so some loose spots are not a bad thing. I guess 80 stitches on US 1’s should in ...
Finished Socks, More Socks!
2008-04-18 20:33:00 Woot! I have a finished object, the Fireworks Socks! (Ok, yes, they took me forever, but they are finished! I figure it comes with the Improvising New Pattern territory, yes?) Side view, with the poofy heel from heel-cuff shaping: Top view on my big ol’ feet: Instep view, where you can kinda-sorta see the ankle shaping: I had a ...
Finished Socks, More Socks!
2008-04-18 20:33:00 Woot! I have a finished object, the Fireworks Socks! (Ok, yes, they took me forever, but they are finished! I figure it comes with the Improvising New Pattern territory, yes?) Side view, with the poofy heel from heel-cuff shaping: Top view on my big ol’ feet: Instep view, where you can kinda-sorta see the ankle shaping: I had a ...
Stitch Markers & Thoughts On Wholesale
2008-03-19 04:57:00 I’ve been working on stitch markers for socks and lace, all made of sterling silver and Swarovski glass pearls. I’ve been winding finished yarns and cleaning in preparation for moving, plus the usual Mommy of Three Under Age Six gig. I keep telling myself that I will actually get around to listing yarn in the ...
Stitch Markers & Thoughts On Wholesale
2008-03-19 04:57:00 I’ve been working on stitch markers for socks and lace, all made of sterling silver and Swarovski glass pearls. I’ve been winding finished yarns and cleaning in preparation for moving, plus the usual Mommy of Three Under Age Six gig. I keep telling myself that I will actually get around to listing yarn in the ...
The Little Dyer That Could
2008-03-13 04:25:00 Been so quiet over here! It’s because I’ve been feeling a bit down lately; a combination of the time change and subsequent lack of sleep, the upcoming move and having a hard time deciding where I want to go with parts of the business. I’m still here though, still working and still dyeing. Even have ...
The Little Dyer That Could
2008-03-13 04:25:00 Been so quiet over here! It’s because I’ve been feeling a bit down lately; a combination of the time change and subsequent lack of sleep, the upcoming move and having a hard time deciding where I want to go with parts of the business. I’m still here though, still working and still dyeing. Even have ...
To Err Is Human?
2008-02-27 18:21:00 To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. -Paul Ehrlich Having a hell of a day, and it’s not even 11am. I’m trying to order samples from a company that carries several base yarns I’ve been trying to find. However, my email clients are not cooperating. Each time I send mail, ...
To Err Is Human?
2008-02-27 18:21:00 To err is human, but to really foul things up you need a computer. -Paul Ehrlich Having a hell of a day, and it’s not even 11am. I’m trying to order samples from a company that carries several base yarns I’ve been trying to find. However, my email clients are not cooperating. Each time I send mail, ...
I?m Alive, Promise!
2008-02-26 16:32:00 I’m alive, I promise, I’m alive!! I’ve been quiet because my dear husband took from Valentine’s Day to my birthday (Feb 22nd) off, as something of a present to me. So I spent the past week or so catching up on quality time with him, sleep and slacking on all things work related. It was ...
I?m Alive, Promise!
2008-02-26 16:32:00 I’m alive, I promise, I’m alive!! I’ve been quiet because my dear husband took from Valentine’s Day to my birthday (Feb 22nd) off, as something of a present to me. So I spent the past week or so catching up on quality time with him, sleep and slacking on all things work related. It was ...
Quiet & Anniversaries
2008-02-21 16:09:00 Things have been quiet on the yarn front this week. I have four new sock yarns to list, two more dyeing, and several more I need to get started. I’ve had requests to do more bulky and worsted, and am looking at the possibility of ordering more base yarn in those weights, and a possible ...
In The Works
2008-02-10 22:59:00 In The Works: Three different literally-hand-painted greens. One purpley-blueish hand paint. Two pretty coffee-bean brown semi-solids. Two magenta and not sure what else yets. Six blanks soaking. You’d think with all the work I’ve been doing, I’d have gotten more done! The hand painted’s take a LOT of time though, since I’m trying to work out the process needed to ...
Let?s Get This Party Started!
2008-02-09 19:56:00 The chemicals I’ve been out of arrived yesterday. Larger dye containers and some new tools were purchased. Forty-seven hanks of yarn are ready for dyeing. Four hanks are soaking in prep for some experimental dyeing I’ve been itching to do, and now have the tools to do. Aerosmith, Prince, Bon Jovi, Black Eyed Peas and ...
Wowsa? THANK YOU!
2008-02-02 04:13:00 Today one of my hand spuns made the front page of Etsy. No, really. See? Jocelyn, the purveyor of hand spun and hand dyed yarn and knitter of fantastic hats and neckwarmers was the one who spotted Margarita this morning and most kindly took a screen shot and emailed it to me. It was only for ...
DEADLINES! Eeeeeek!
2008-01-28 21:56:00 It’s only because I have a deadline to meet this week! I’ve got to dye 7 or more hanks of sock yarn in under three days, two if I can. Which might not seem that bad, except that it takes me 24 hours to just get each one dyed! (The results are so worth ...
In Which I Prove My Brain Really IS Fried.
2008-01-26 05:13:00 I am so glad it is Friday, and that Friday is done! This has been a heck of a week, and today was just the kind of day to end it. Completely and totally random. I went to bed last night feeling crummy, the beginnings of a cold kicking in. I woke up this ...
One of Those Days + New Shop
2008-01-23 23:34:00 I have no idea where my brain went today. After an overdye going horribly awry, fighting with databases to get the new shop set up and The Yarn Babies boycotting naps… I’m not even sure my brain is in residence anymore. (Hours spent trying to get the shop’s database just functioning on Monday, Tuesday and ...
Unexpected, But Much Needed, Knitty Kindness
2008-01-12 01:28:00 I had this long post written up about how I donated sock yarn to the Ravelry Sock Knitters Anonymous’ November Sockdown, how the contest worked, who ‘my’ winner was and how she lived in Canada and how I was concerned about shipping internationally. And then I come back to finish the post and hit refresh ...
Still Kicking!
2008-01-07 20:20:00 I’m still here, still working, still reading! A lot has happened this past week, and there is a lot to get done still! I’ve got a pile of dyed yarn waiting for tags, some waiting for reskeining, some drying. Lots of tagging, lots of pictures to take, lots of listings to write! The goal is ...
Happy New Year!
2008-01-01 22:59:00 Happy New Year everyone!! How did your New Year’s Eve go? Did you go out and ring in the new year? Did you stay home and watch the ball drop? Did you spend the evening knitting and completely forget it was New Year’s Eve? (We didn’t do much exciting, unless you count playing computer ...
Dyes, Mordants and Colorful Counters
2007-12-30 05:30:00 Today was mix everything up for the next week day. I only had tiny amounts of stock solutions left in three colors ? red, green, ivory. Seeing as how Christmas was over a week ago… hehe. Time to mix all them dyes again! So down come the dyes, out come the dye solution containers and measuring ...
So Much To Do, So Little Motivation To Do It!
2007-12-23 19:35:00 It’s noon and I have gotten nothing done. I still have yarn that needs to be wound into balls and then into hanks, laundry that needs doing, and only half a sock knit. Beds need making, floors need vacuuming, dishes need washing, counters need wiping and yarn needs dyeing. There is web work that needs ...
Home Sweet Home!
2007-12-21 02:57:00 We’re back! Everyone had a blast - the Yarn Babies with their Grandparents, Aunt & Uncle, and my husband and I with the previously mentioned Aunt and Uncle - even if we all are tired and pretty sore. Disney was a lot bigger than I expected! Still, even though we all had a ton ...
Just a Quickie
2007-12-16 05:00:00 Just a quick entry, before I go climb in the tub and call it a night! I spent the day alternating between cleaning the house, folding laundry and winding sock yarn off of one of the two cones I have. This was after being up until 2am last night, dyeing two pounds of yarn in the ...
Brief Update & My Mom
2007-12-14 17:01:00 Eight yarns are in the shop. I’m doing three more colors in the bulky and worsted, and then starting on sock yarns. I’ll be gone most of next week, starting on Sunday. My mom is in the hospital. She was in a bad car accident. She’s alive and aware, and still has all feeling, but ...
Alive, But Beaten Up A Bit
2007-12-10 18:50:00 I burned my right index and middle finger Friday, and spend the afternoon in the ER. I was discharged with a bag full of Silver Sulfadiazine cream, prescription Motrin and Vicodin, and told to keep my fingers wrapped, dry and to not pop the blisters. Most of the pain is gone, as long as I ...
Adventures In Locating Citric Acid
2007-12-06 19:08:00 I really, truly just wanted anhydrous citric acid. That is it. Citric acid powder. The powder form of what gives citrus fruits their bite. It’s not toxic, it’s not rare, it’s not dangerous - but it’s really hard to find! paustin bri-bri The two youngest Yarn Babies and I started our adventures yesterday at Lowe’s, ...
What Matters Most Isn?t the Felted Yarn in the Closet
2007-12-06 04:50:00 At the end of the day, what matters most isn’t the felted yarn in the closet. It’s not what I didn’t get done, or that my hands are nearly every shade between blue and red, with a bit of green for good luck. It doesn’t bother me that my nails are quick-short, with remnants of ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
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 ...
?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 ...
Inspiration: Colors
2007-11-10 07:04:00 paustin bri-bri This one dresses himself. (: Day To Day, Project 365
NoBloPoMo - Sunday Post
2007-11-05 01:31:00 I am still sick, and running a fever at night. (Why at night, but not during the day?) I haven’t dyed any yarn today, or this weekend for that matter. I really am going to get some work done come Monday, including dyeing and laundry. No, really, I am! ... |
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