I’m officially behind on my spinning…
posted Wednesday, February 6th, 2008Because I decided I am 
I have 3 months worth of my Zen String fiber club waiting to be spun, along with 8oz more I bought last week (couldn’t resist it!)
Archive for February, 2008
Finished “Wise” Longies!
posted Wednesday, February 6th, 2008I meant to post this yesterday, but forgot.. here’s the finished product (with a very sleepy baby modeling them.. I took that at like 1am)
I’m pretty happy with them I ended up doing 1″ of seed stitch in the trim color after I ran out of the first skein, then finished the legs off with about 1 1/2″ in the colorway, with a folded hem.
I’m using the rest of the yarn to make a pair of small shorties for a friend of mine who is expecting her first little boy early next summer… they are coming out SO cute too!
As much as I say I don’t like magic looping…
posted Monday, February 4th, 2008I have to say that I do like getting both legs done at the same time, and the lack of guesswork (and waste) involved in figuring out how much yarn I need for each leg, or trying to split a ball in half… since I can knit from both ends.
See the cute little coiled bit? I ran out of yarn
I think I’m going to do an orange stripe before beginning the second skein. Then knit a few inches and finish off in the colorway, rather than in the trim…
(oh yeah, and I fixed my flickr stuff.. or rather, replaced my non-working plugin, with one that actually works!)
More belated updating :)
posted Monday, February 4th, 2008I think I really do need to figure out a way to get myself to update regularly – like force myself to blog at least once a week or something.. just schedule a time for it. Not that doing so would actually make me be more reliable, but at least I’d have a goal, rather than just some random notion that “oh yeah, I should post that to my blog” and then never remember to do so 
I took a wee break from knitting after hurting my finger, but I did knit a couple pairs of shorties and another pair of longies for Odin, and a goofy hat for my sister, and I’m halfway through another pair of longies for Odin in Wise from Zen String that I hope to have finished in a day or two (and I will post those when they are done – I’ve promised myself). I’ve done some spinning as well, but I am woefully behind on that at the moment… I have three months worth of my Zen String fiber club to catch up on, and on top of that I’m actually expecting some more ZS fiber in the mail… wonder how that happened
I’ve been taking a lot of pictures lately though.. and thinking I may set up a photo blog that I won’t update often either.. lol These things always seem like such a great idea to set up, but it’s the maintaining bit that ends up being a challenge. My mom wants a blog too, and I sort of started to set her up a wordpress blog on her domain, but never finished setting it up. I should do that too….
My kids have been keeping me busy, Seth just turned 7 last month, and the little ones continue to be quite a handful (please note that I don’t recommend the 2 year age gap – 4 1/2 years apart was SO much easier!!). Kaia (2 1/2) amazes me every day with how much she is learning, and Odin (almost 7 months) has just started fully crawling (he has been army crawling since just after Christmas) so he’s all over the place now.
My flickr API thingie doesn’t seem to be working so no pictures for this post..I don’t feel like doing it the hard way, but I think most everyone who reads my blog is in my flickr contacts anyways (and if you aren’t, don’t be afraid to add me – I’ll add you back) so you haven’t missed anything really
