Well, not wrong-wrong, just not the stuff I should probably be spending my time on right now. Isn't that just the way some of us work, though? I just spent the past hour taking and uploading photos of projects and fiber, updating Ravelry, etc. pffft! I should have been doing something more useful, like going to the grocery store. Or, maybe working with eldest instead of letting her have an extra long lunch today. lol Like she's complaining.
Still, that means I have way too many pics to post now, so I'll try to break it a bit, posting the oldest things first, with the exception of my newly finished Love Bites scarf. This was knit up in Fresh From the Caudron's Silver Sock base in the Fangtasia colorway (Sept. shipment in the yarn club, didn't even get that one posted yet). The pattern was fun, simple to memorize and seem to take for-stinking-ever to finish. Of course, I could have stopped any time I wanted to, I just wanted a longer scarf. As it is, I think I went a bit too far, I don't have quite enough left for mitts. So I'm thinking I'll use some black silver sock from my stash and alternate rows with Fangtasia/Black and see if some work out. Anyway, you can see the two little holes in the wider knitted bands, like fang marks/bites. Love Bites? Ha Ha? I think it is cute, but probably won't explain it to very many people. They think I'm weird enough as it is.
On the idea of getting things done late, do you see that nice picture up there of the nice brew with the blue yarn? I took that baby two years ago, and I've been looking for it ever since. Seriously. I've searched on every thumb drive in the house, every computer (we have, ahem, more than two) and everywhere else I could think of (at 2 am, sometimes). WhenI finally embraced the fact that it was lost, gone forever and not-reproduceable (not exactly, anyway), after Himself updated all the software, etc. poof!, there it is.
Seriously. In His photo collection, which I thought was in the whole Picture folder (he didn't even know he had one of his own). Moral of the story? Never say die! Or dye, or something like that. lol
I can't wait to get started, but I'm also not sure if I'm ready for another big-ish project. I might do the fingerless mitts in the leftover fangtasia first. I just can't decide, but I'm freezing right now. I have not adjusted to our current temps outside. Pathetic. I know. I always need a couple of weeks to settle in, though, then I'm pretty good.
This guy is The Eccentric. He is named in honor of a character from a series who's author is very, very, happy to sue anything that even breathes the name of her characters. Once the dyer got wind of that, she modified the names and made the all exclusives to the club. Paranoid? Maybe, but better safe than sorry.
This yarn is an acquaintance to the character above. He is The Antiquated. Rich plums and browns make up this fellow's pallete, and are absolutely scruptious! Also BFL, very yummy. As was the character, IMO, but I'll stop. lolI'm a bit alarmed at how much fiber has found its way into my home over the past several months. I was doing an excellent job of not buying anything (other than what came in the clubs), and then BAM! I seem to have forgotten what it is to think calmly through all purchases, considering the likelihood that a yarn will be used. Soon. sigh.
Although, I suppose my most fevered stashing seems to be in fiber. Since I added that jumbo flyer, I seem to think I'll be doing all this spinning. lol I am trying to keep it in the loop, at least once a week at minimum. I'm about 3 oz into a 4 oz braid of the Frabjous Fiber in Atlantis I've already posted (bad) pics of. It is turning out very lovely, but it is a slow thing.
If I pre-draft the fiber, I spin it too thin, if I don't pre-draft, it is pretty uneven. I rather like the thick/thin (within reason), so don't mind too much, but it'll be nice when I get a better handle on this new flyer and thicker yarn. I don't want everything I spin to come out sport weight. I was hoping for something worsted-to-bulky in this yarn, but I knew it would be sort of random at this stage. I just wanted to keep spinning. Still, I'm hopeful that I can do a nice sweater or something out of this yarn. Though I'm not delusional enough to think that will happen in the next month or so. lol
1 comment:
I have no earthly idea what you're talking about here! lol -- But I totally get the "buying too much" thing. Even though I seem to be shifting to digital scrapbooking, and digi-scrapping sites/designers often have freebies to get you into their stuff, I have now begun BUYING digi kits and other "necessary" stuff of a downloadable nature, and find that I'm going overboard as much as I did paper scrapping. Because the kits are often $3 or maybe $5, rarely will I spring for a more expensive one, and there are LOTS of little $1 and $2 things. Which add up. Pretty quickly, in my experience! Fortunately I just got some birthday money and spent half of it right off the bat on a graphics tablet and a Photoshop Elements upgrade. As jillions of dollars' worth of paper scrapping stuff sits unused and gathering dust in my scrap loft. *SIGH* When will I ever find a CHEAP, NON-CONSUMABLE hobby? Well, I do write, but that's off-and-on! That yarn looks lovely, BTW. Gotta be fun working with that (wait, no, I will NOT pick up another hobby!)
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