Hitting the Curb…

Posted in Knitting, Ramblings on March 31st, 2008 by kaitlen

So I finished the actual bag part of my curbing bag today, and grafted/kitchenered the bottom together. I don’t have any fabric to line it yet, and I am really not looking forward to making icord for the handle. I may wait (although seeing as I have negative money, it could be an extraordinary amount of time) until I can get one of those little round loom things to make it. I also don’t think I have enough of any matching/coordinating color to make a single-colored long icord. I guess I can just keep attaching new colors as I run out and they can just be random and rainbow…

Anyhow, here’s what’s done -

Aaaaannnnnd DONE!

Posted in Knitting on March 31st, 2008 by kaitlen

I finally finished them!  And I love them!  

And as I predicted, Chris wants a pair for himself - good thing he can’t fit into mine.

 

 

I do not totally suck at life!

Posted in Dyeing, Spinning on March 26th, 2008 by kaitlen

I finally managed to spin a decent fingering-weight yarn!  And it’s prettier in person than it is in the pictures…the color is much more beauteous. 

  

 

More on the tabis…

Posted in Knitting on March 20th, 2008 by kaitlen

I’m pretty happy with them!  If I were to do them again though, I’d shape the bigger toe cap a little differently. 

Currently I’m a little past the heel…not sure how long I want to make the cuff yet though.  I’m thinking they’ll probably end up being short socks, since that’s what I tend to wear in the summer. 

 

Oh I am *so* good…

Posted in Knitting on March 15th, 2008 by kaitlen

I wanted to make tabi socks to wear with my flip flops this summer.  I attempted the Lickety Split pattern, but it completely confused me and made me want to bang my head against the wall.  So I decided to make up my own pattern, using my normal toe-up sock techniques.  I used magic cast on, and I made two toe caps at a time - both big-toe caps, and both 4-toe caps.  Then I kitchenered them together, picked up a few stitches, and tada!  

 

  

So I’m pretty proud of myself for actually figuring that out on my own.  Now I just have to knit to the heel, turn it, and knit the cuff! 

Tardo Kaitlen.

Posted in Dyeing, Spinning on March 10th, 2008 by kaitlen

It would appear that I’m incapable of spinning fingering-weight yarn!  Last time it was too thin; this time…I managed to get only 90 yards out of half of the 109 grams of roving I dyed, when I should have gotten at least 175 yards.  I fail!  I spun the other half bulky out of spite.   

 

 

 

More Yarn.

Posted in Dyeing, Spinning on March 7th, 2008 by kaitlen

I spun this yarn a while ago (undyed) when I was teaching myself to Navajo ply (making a 3-ply yarn from a single bobbin), and I just found it last night buried under other yarn.  I asked Chris what color I should dye it, and he said “pink and blue!”.  So it was *supposed* to be a pale blue and pale pink, but I added too much dye and it got really dark!  I like it anyway :P 

 

I also dyed this roving last night, which I hope will look awesome spun up…I’m going to try to make Navajo-plied sock yarn, so wish me extremely-thin-spinning luck! 

 

 

All Spun Up!

Posted in Dyeing, Spinning on March 5th, 2008 by kaitlen

Ta da!  The roving from the other day, all spun up and ready for my Etsy store! 

 

Official Curbing Addict

Posted in Dyeing, Knitting, Ramblings, Spinning on March 2nd, 2008 by kaitlen

I can’t stop knitting on my curbing bag!  

I keep telling myself  ’just one more row, then I’ll stop’, but I can’t put it down! I’m working on my seventh “row” right now.  I think part of the addiction is that I get to keep switching yarns…not just colors, but fibers, weights, textures…it’s the perfect solution to my two-second yarn attention span! 

Oh and it’s a *great* project for handspun…I have lots of thick-and-thin bits of stuff I’ve spun, in smallish amounts, which looks awesome on this bag!

Curbing Bag 

I also dyed this roving last night: