Friday, July 27, 2007

New Craft Room

Well there is not going to be any fibery goodness this week. I spent the whole week organizing a new craft/guest room.

I had previously had my crafty area in the basement, but we recently moved our son down there and converted his old room into something new and versatile. I am very happy with it! My mother-in-law will be coming to stay next week so I needed to get a move on, and she will be visiting more often since the loss of her husband. I want her to have a room instead of just the hide-a-bed. It is a bit cramped in there, but it will be her own space when she visits.

Anyway, since I began knitting, my other hobbies have gone by the wayside, but now that I have a new fun room, I might just work up there a bit. It feels really cozy and less overwhelming than my huge area had become. I had so much space down in the basement, that it had gotten to be quite the junk heap. So for this week, you will have to except pictures of the new space.

Thursday, July 19, 2007

Play nice together, now!

I have an upcoming guild project, we will be making a Christmas Angel ornament. It calls for angora yarn and I decided to spin my own. Actually a blend of bunny and alpaca as I didn't quite have enough bunny. I ended up with 40 yards (14 grams). Anyway, I also purchased some kidsilk haze and I am planning to include the extra fine strand to the wings. It's white with a slight sparkle to it. I think it will add that extra special touch that will make it different from all the others ; )
I am hoping the bunny and the mohair/silk will play nicely together and make the perfect angel wings. Click on the kid silk picture for a closer view of the sparkle.
See them snuggle. I think they like each other. What do you think?
I am so pleased with my spun bunny. It was so fun. I've heard that it's a difficult fiber to spin, but it actually went very well for a first try. Isn't it Divine?

Friday, July 13, 2007

Wool of the Andes

Happy Friday! I had a job interview yesterday, for a job with a new local yarn store. It will be opening very soon. I am pretty excited about the possibility of it. I am pretty sure it will be my dream job. I think the interview went well, even though I had to explain that I am not an expert knitter. I am keeping my fingers and knitting needles crossed. I also heard that our other local yarn store is now closing it's doors. I was pretty shocked by that news. I guess life moves on, It will definitely be good for the new yarn store.

Anyway, I recently purchased this Wool of the Andes by Knit Picks to make their Entrelac bag. http://www.knitpicks.com/Felted+Entrelac+Tote_PD50406220.html

I have not done Entrelac before so it will be fun to learn something new. I chose my own color palette and hope that I ordered enough yarn. They didn't give the amounts so that I could be sure how much I would need.


Thursday, July 05, 2007

Risata

Yarn in the mail, Yippee! Knit Picks has a new yarn, its called Risata. The fiber content is 42% Cotton, 39% Superwash Wool, 13% Polymide, 6% Elite. It is a fingering weight and is very squishy. I ordered these 2 balls as samples to see what it was like. I have a hat pattern that calls for fingering weight, that I may give a try, or of coarse there are always socks. I have not really knit with cotton sock yarn as of yet. I have cast on a pair with the Sockotta brand, (which is similar in fiber content) but that is the extent of it. I am interested to see how I will like this yarn. I hope everyone is having a wonderful holiday week. I only had Wednesday off, but it does break the week up nicely. I managed to work on my tank a bit and intend to keep moving along with it. I will want to wear it yet this year ; )

Other big news, I have applied for a job with a new yarn store opening here. The shop name is "Boucle" and it has announced that it will open this month. I am supposed to have an interview next week. I am pretty excited about that. Everyone please wish me luck!

OK, on to the yarn.