Posts Tagged ‘merino’

More Photos of Kate’s English Garden Angel

Saturday, August 16, 2008

Yes, that’s the name I gave to the yarn that I am spinning now on Ravelry. It’s quite light and airy. I am pretty happy with the result. I just have to duplicate it for the other half of the fiber. Oy! There will be four more hours of plying. I must remember not to start the process too late in the evening.


Click on them to go to Flickr and see the photos in their original uploaded sizes. You can sort of see the sparks. But they don’t look anything like what you can see in real person. Full of colors and fires. Silver Hologram Angelina is quite amazing.

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Happenings

Friday, July 4, 2008

Hi all! A few things to update you on. CB is in the hospital. Nothing to worry about at the moment. He hasn’t been feeling well for a couple of weeks. He started having difficulty breathing last week, causing headaches and fatigue. He finally was willing to go to the doctor yesterday morning. The doc immediately found the oxygen level in CB too low and sent him to the emergency room. They performed tests on him for the entire afternoon and could not find the cause. Finally in the evening after doing a CT scan, they found pneumonia in a hard to detect region of the lungs. So, now he’s in the hospital for a few days to get better. They are also performing extra tests to see there’s anything else. It’s a relief to have found the cause of his illness. Now we can focus on getting better.

Remember that yarn that I named Forest Jewels?

I am going to start knitting something with it. I’ve always had Drifting Pleats from the book Knitting New Scarves in mind. A little scared of the pattern, but am going to give it a good try.

I joined Katherine’s Le Tour de Fleece 2008.

I had so much fun spinning and knitting for Fibre to Scarf Exchange, I thought I’d join up another spinning challenge. Maybe I’ll do well again doing a project with time restraint? We’ll see. Now I have to find something in the stash to get going.

Happy Fourth of July! I’ll be spending the afternoon with CB. :-)

OH! Almost forgot. Chris, here’s the cotton I have to work with:

I am not an experienced cotton person. Maybe it is usual to get cotton in this condition. (It was given to me.) I have at least 30 times more of this cotton. What do you think? Keep or let go? :-)

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Is It Dry Yet?

Tuesday, January 8, 2008

That maybe a question some of you are asking now. Here are a couple of the finished scarf photos:

CB loves the scarf. He wore it out the first day that I declared the scarf was dry. (I left it alone for two days just in case. Cool temperature, you know.)

Thanks to Ravelry, I do have some data to share with you. But not the precise starting date though. Guess I’ll have to remember to type that in myself for future projects.

Pattern: Exchequered (free on Knitty.com)
Yarn: KnitPicks’ Merino Style in Harvest and Asparagus, DK weight, 3 balls each
Needle: KnitPicks’ Options (nickel plated), size US 5
Finished Size: 4.75″ wide, 9′ long
Started: October, 2007
Finished: January 3, 2008 (blocking date)

I decided to just do the usual knit two slip one over and off the needle bind-off. I did test the couple of bind-off methods that I mentioned in an earlier post, but I wasn’t satisfied with the results. Got tired of looking for another solution, and just did the usual and did it tightly. However, I should have knitted on a knit stitch and purled on a purl stitch. The bind-off looks OK. But it could’ve looked neater if I’ve done it properly.

CB likes the extra long length. It is also soft to the skin. I think I’ll make mine about that long, too. I like to wrap a scarf around a few times to stay extra warm. :-) Question is, do I start now or next Fall? :lol:

Oh, the weather is now dry, too. We sure had an extra wet weekend though!

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