Woolarina
Friday, September 29, 2006
sunday SUNDAY sunday!
Two more days until DC's Craftiest are out in full force! I have all my yarn boxed and ready to go! I bought a new rack and borrowed a table. I. am. READY! :)
Are you?
$1 off all handspun if you show me your knitting! (really, what knitter is ever without?!) Bonus points to those knitting with our yarn! ;) We will have some fun goodies from the craft mutiny gals and I'll see what else I can find! :)
FORTY HOURS!
Are you?
$1 off all handspun if you show me your knitting! (really, what knitter is ever without?!) Bonus points to those knitting with our yarn! ;) We will have some fun goodies from the craft mutiny gals and I'll see what else I can find! :)
FORTY HOURS!
Thursday, September 28, 2006
3 days til getting your craft on!
Also, the Craft Mutiny site is live! We are a new collective in the MD/DC area! We will all be at Crafty Bastards Sunday, so come check us out! We'll also have little swag bags for anyone buying stuff!
Also, the Craft Mutiny site is live! We are a new collective in the MD/DC area! We will all be at Crafty Bastards Sunday, so come check us out! We'll also have little swag bags for anyone buying stuff!
Tuesday, September 26, 2006
lunchtime knitting
So I met Heather what, 8 months ago? And we saw that we worked at the same place and thought we should get together for some lunchy knitting... Yeah, then a wedding happened, and zero knitting! And I'm not quite "out" at work as a (crazy!) knitter. Also, I am such a flake!
Anyhow, we finally met for some knitting and chatting at lunch last week... so nice to hang out with knitty people.. our fun little meetup group is dwindling as people move away! Time to be more social!
This past weekend was spent printing little flyers, labeling yarn, and making packets with a couple mutineers! stuffing 300+ packets on a windy roof!
Anyhow, we finally met for some knitting and chatting at lunch last week... so nice to hang out with knitty people.. our fun little meetup group is dwindling as people move away! Time to be more social!
This past weekend was spent printing little flyers, labeling yarn, and making packets with a couple mutineers! stuffing 300+ packets on a windy roof!
Friday, September 22, 2006
a new look!
Just in time for Crafty Bastards, we have a new logo!!
Rania made it for me! She will also be hawking her wares at Crafty Bastards (less than 10 days!!) so check out her booth!
Rania made it for me! She will also be hawking her wares at Crafty Bastards (less than 10 days!!) so check out her booth!
Thursday, September 21, 2006
slower than molasses
I went home sick today, and am trying to distract myself from doing actual work. Blogger isn't cooperating, so I am getting stuff done, thank goodness. But I am achey. Wah.
Less than two weeks until Crafty Bastards! I am so very not ready! For the first time I'll be doing it alone... I think we've had 4 people helping out the past two years, but this year it'll just be me. Maybe my husband, if I can tempt him?!
Anyhow, some idea of what we will have with us:
Other craftsters in the Craft Mutiny (Arrgghh -- More on that later!) will also be there! Ilikeseamonsters, Charming Vices, 60 Bugs, art school dropout, mypapercrane, bendependent, and pile of craft.
Back to work... so much to get done, and so little leave.
Less than two weeks until Crafty Bastards! I am so very not ready! For the first time I'll be doing it alone... I think we've had 4 people helping out the past two years, but this year it'll just be me. Maybe my husband, if I can tempt him?!
Anyhow, some idea of what we will have with us:
Other craftsters in the Craft Mutiny (Arrgghh -- More on that later!) will also be there! Ilikeseamonsters, Charming Vices, 60 Bugs, art school dropout, mypapercrane, bendependent, and pile of craft.
Back to work... so much to get done, and so little leave.
Saturday, September 16, 2006
fall (almost!) in new england
Something about September and New England makes us happy and ready for fall. We drove up to Massachusetts last weekend to attend a wedding in Sturbridge, home of Old Sturbridge Village. Perfect weather, aside from the unfortunate T-storm that hit 5 minutes before the ceremony! Still- great wedding, great food, and great drink (even if I did have to have a loooong conversation with the stupid bartender in lieu of fetching my stupid ID left (with all my stuff, duh!) in my room. What is it with MA and identifying underage drinking? I thought it was just boston, but noooo...)
Here we are at Hyland Orchard/Brewery/Ice cream & snack shack/petting zoo/picnic area/farm market... we got there before the beer place opened, so visited the animals!
More animals to be found at Old Sturbridge Village, which seemed like a smaller version of Colonial Williamsburg. Different time period though (not sure which- history isn't my strong suit!) We saw a bunch of "how people lived" stuff, which wasn't super exciting at the time. There was a carding mill containing gigantic carders- easily millions of tines there! There were yarn ladies natural dyeing, but they weren't seeming keen to talk to us...more interested in packing up to go home, even though it wasn't the end of the day yet and we'd paid 16 bucks. hmph.
anyhow, cozy sheep:
Also visited much yarn: Mt Laurel and Knit Witts. Mt. Laurel was close to town, and nice and cute... they also have pottery. A lot of novelty/baby yarn for my taste, but also had lots of other fun stuff. I got some Austermann Step, which has Aloe and Jojoba oil in it for the first forty or so washes, to keep my toes moisturized! Knit Witts was several miles out of town, down some smallish forested streets. PRetty location, and on a lake (though she didn't seem to want us to check out the lake- private property! poor husband and friend couldn't do much, but sat on the dock at least) It's a nice, spacious shop, though the room you come into has shelves pretty close together. I got some superwash lorna's worsted, and it is all gone now! Lovely rainbow hats for the show. I didn't have the heart to tell the woman that I paint my own darn sock yarn (when she was trying to sell me koigu) but I did tell her I could spin stuff pretty close to the overpriced colinette.
Wedding was great... much alcohol after I just started sending my husband for refills. Didn't get hungover, but wasn't feeling super social for sunday's brunch, so muddled through it. Sunday we drove towards Boston and K8. Spent the afternoon lolling about, looked at a yarn shop, drank coffee, tried not to fall asleep, knit, ate yummy food, debated how a lendrum seems so much smoother but still has WAY smaller bobbins than my louet.
Parts of the shop are disappearing for craft fairs. Other parts will be coming soon! In the future: more updates and more fun stuff! Some new prints I've been playing with:
Here we are at Hyland Orchard/Brewery/Ice cream & snack shack/petting zoo/picnic area/farm market... we got there before the beer place opened, so visited the animals!
More animals to be found at Old Sturbridge Village, which seemed like a smaller version of Colonial Williamsburg. Different time period though (not sure which- history isn't my strong suit!) We saw a bunch of "how people lived" stuff, which wasn't super exciting at the time. There was a carding mill containing gigantic carders- easily millions of tines there! There were yarn ladies natural dyeing, but they weren't seeming keen to talk to us...more interested in packing up to go home, even though it wasn't the end of the day yet and we'd paid 16 bucks. hmph.
anyhow, cozy sheep:
Also visited much yarn: Mt Laurel and Knit Witts. Mt. Laurel was close to town, and nice and cute... they also have pottery. A lot of novelty/baby yarn for my taste, but also had lots of other fun stuff. I got some Austermann Step, which has Aloe and Jojoba oil in it for the first forty or so washes, to keep my toes moisturized! Knit Witts was several miles out of town, down some smallish forested streets. PRetty location, and on a lake (though she didn't seem to want us to check out the lake- private property! poor husband and friend couldn't do much, but sat on the dock at least) It's a nice, spacious shop, though the room you come into has shelves pretty close together. I got some superwash lorna's worsted, and it is all gone now! Lovely rainbow hats for the show. I didn't have the heart to tell the woman that I paint my own darn sock yarn (when she was trying to sell me koigu) but I did tell her I could spin stuff pretty close to the overpriced colinette.
Wedding was great... much alcohol after I just started sending my husband for refills. Didn't get hungover, but wasn't feeling super social for sunday's brunch, so muddled through it. Sunday we drove towards Boston and K8. Spent the afternoon lolling about, looked at a yarn shop, drank coffee, tried not to fall asleep, knit, ate yummy food, debated how a lendrum seems so much smoother but still has WAY smaller bobbins than my louet.
Parts of the shop are disappearing for craft fairs. Other parts will be coming soon! In the future: more updates and more fun stuff! Some new prints I've been playing with:
Tuesday, September 12, 2006
rocking the voting
My county appears to be one of the incompetent ones this go around! Eek! We will be voting after work. Hopefully they'll have worked it out before then!
We will *not* be voting for the candidates who have spamed us inthe past few months... note to candidates: Really? more than one flyer a DAY per person listed on our address? This particular person also left THREE MESSAGES on our answering machine, one of which was just noisy incomprehensible gibberish. Blah.
And speaking of answering machine messages: please don't discuss abortions on MY MACHINE! Really? Actually I don't need to hear how your friend is so pro-life, whether I believe in that or not! Just not what I need to hear after a long drive home from Massachusetts.
Massachusetts: we drank and breweried and pet animals and watched weddings and drove and yarned and visited people. I hit several yarn shops, and bought some yarn I didn't need but wanted to try. Will write about it soonish.
For now, VOTE (if you live in DC/MD, at least!)!!
UPDATE: Make that a whopping FOUR messages on our machine! Jeez. Yeah, we voted for the other guy! Also, though polls were open til 9, after 8 (when we arrived) we could only use paper ballots. We had to wait longer for them to fill out stuff. But- we met some people from our building there, so that was nice. However, our votes will only be counted Monday, if at all. At least they are in, eh?
We will *not* be voting for the candidates who have spamed us inthe past few months... note to candidates: Really? more than one flyer a DAY per person listed on our address? This particular person also left THREE MESSAGES on our answering machine, one of which was just noisy incomprehensible gibberish. Blah.
And speaking of answering machine messages: please don't discuss abortions on MY MACHINE! Really? Actually I don't need to hear how your friend is so pro-life, whether I believe in that or not! Just not what I need to hear after a long drive home from Massachusetts.
Massachusetts: we drank and breweried and pet animals and watched weddings and drove and yarned and visited people. I hit several yarn shops, and bought some yarn I didn't need but wanted to try. Will write about it soonish.
For now, VOTE (if you live in DC/MD, at least!)!!
UPDATE: Make that a whopping FOUR messages on our machine! Jeez. Yeah, we voted for the other guy! Also, though polls were open til 9, after 8 (when we arrived) we could only use paper ballots. We had to wait longer for them to fill out stuff. But- we met some people from our building there, so that was nice. However, our votes will only be counted Monday, if at all. At least they are in, eh?
Monday, September 04, 2006
thumbless
I tend to postpone thumbs. Mostly so I do them both the same (same number of stitches picked up, etc.), but also I am lazy.
And also some socks- I was just testing the yarn to see how much I needed to have in a hank. This is about 1.2 ounces or so, but will be skeined in 2 ounce hanks. (I also took shortcuts here, and knit on bigger needles, etc. but I think it will be safe!)
I have another trip coming up, including about 16 hours of driving time... need to pack more projects!
And also some socks- I was just testing the yarn to see how much I needed to have in a hank. This is about 1.2 ounces or so, but will be skeined in 2 ounce hanks. (I also took shortcuts here, and knit on bigger needles, etc. but I think it will be safe!)
I have another trip coming up, including about 16 hours of driving time... need to pack more projects!
Friday, September 01, 2006
progress
So it seems we got to the beach just in time! Now we are hardcore in to SWEATER WEATHER! YAY! Maybe I oughta finish a couple of sweater, eh?! I made a lot of progress in the past several days- some at the beach, some not.
- red brook farms cabled mitt: done aside from thumbs. however, cable seems to be too close to the thumb when worn. fuck. they look odd. only once the hand shifts around. maybe the thumb addition will help?
- orange pumpkin hat - baby sized, 70% done already: 75% done?
- superbulky mitts - check! even sewed ends in.
- baby flap hat - ran out of yarn! finished: used a different color for a funky look. whatever!
- superbulky adult hat: was trying to make a cowl, but grossly underestimated size of a persons head. turned into a cabled hat, but one of the rows is wonky near top, so I may redo. This is all about the redos... I ripped this one out at least two times befor casting on right. first was too few stitches, second was twisted. (twisted? I felt so dumb! ;) This was before I got pooped on and gave up. (wtFF? I got pooped on. twice. not ever returning to rehoboth beach without an umbrella. thank god for moms carrying baby wipes and husbands who only take a moment of shrieking to assess the situation and rescue me.) :(
Didn't even consider:
- a scarf. Must knit scarves, no matter how dull!
- mitts. really, can't have enough!
- pinwheel blanket- no work done at all.
I also stopped by Sea Needles in Bethany Beach. This is right near where my friend's family has a beach house that I've been to numerous times. Why didn't I see this before? Anyhow, was vaguely underwhelmed, but got some dpns and trekking sock yarn- blues and purples. yummy.
I've hardly spun this week, actually, and totally need to speed the heck up! I did dig out my gocco last night and made a heck of a lot of cards for upcoming fairs. exciting exciting. Applications aplenty are due and I'm out of town next week some so I need to get cracking!
- red brook farms cabled mitt: done aside from thumbs. however, cable seems to be too close to the thumb when worn. fuck. they look odd. only once the hand shifts around. maybe the thumb addition will help?
- orange pumpkin hat - baby sized, 70% done already: 75% done?
- superbulky mitts - check! even sewed ends in.
- baby flap hat - ran out of yarn! finished: used a different color for a funky look. whatever!
- superbulky adult hat: was trying to make a cowl, but grossly underestimated size of a persons head. turned into a cabled hat, but one of the rows is wonky near top, so I may redo. This is all about the redos... I ripped this one out at least two times befor casting on right. first was too few stitches, second was twisted. (twisted? I felt so dumb! ;) This was before I got pooped on and gave up. (wtFF? I got pooped on. twice. not ever returning to rehoboth beach without an umbrella. thank god for moms carrying baby wipes and husbands who only take a moment of shrieking to assess the situation and rescue me.) :(
Didn't even consider:
- a scarf. Must knit scarves, no matter how dull!
- mitts. really, can't have enough!
- pinwheel blanket- no work done at all.
I also stopped by Sea Needles in Bethany Beach. This is right near where my friend's family has a beach house that I've been to numerous times. Why didn't I see this before? Anyhow, was vaguely underwhelmed, but got some dpns and trekking sock yarn- blues and purples. yummy.
I've hardly spun this week, actually, and totally need to speed the heck up! I did dig out my gocco last night and made a heck of a lot of cards for upcoming fairs. exciting exciting. Applications aplenty are due and I'm out of town next week some so I need to get cracking!
