tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-186034802011-11-15T06:01:13.090-05:00A meandering path through the crafts I follow, undoubtedly touching on other parts of life as well. My name's Elizabeth; I've a husband, two kids, two cats, and an abiding interest in fiber. Mostly this will be about fiber. And gardening, just because.Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.comBlogger7061100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-17066824522384313362011-09-25T09:15:00.001-04:002011-09-25T09:15:54.089-04:00

It’s Banned Books Week this week. Whatcha gonna read? I’ve slowly been working my way through the 100 most challenged books of 1990-1999 and then I suppose I’ll have to start on the ones of 2000-2009 that don’t overlap.This week I’m going to try The Color Purple, which I’ve never gotten round to reading.

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Test my vocabularyThis way I won't have to go take the test again to remember what it was.Test your vocabulary?

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The trouble with experimentation is that not all experiments are successes. The nature of the beast - it doesn't stop me from experimenting, and yet, I admit in this case to unreasonable disappointment. Somehow, I expected this (Spice brown colorslide, Polwarth from Dunnose Head Farm): plus this (Seal brown, silk noil): to come out with a little bit more varigation that just plain

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This summer is going by in leaps and bounds - I feel like I'm wearing 7 league boots as the world whizzes by. I've been away on vacation and am now back. Photos from that will have to wait until I post the photos from TdF which finished a week (two?) before I left. I had plans for TdF, and some of them worked and some got sidetracked. I never got around to posting prep pics for the things

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I’ve just done something either brilliant or really stupid. I’ve noticed when I do a search on a title in the library catalog that quite often there are multiple books by the same title and it occurred to me that it could be an interesting thing to see what different things could wind up with the same titles. Someone mentioned “Remember Me” a week or two ago in terms that made me write down the

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The second thing I'm working on for the Tour de Fleece is also on a spindle. Ultrafine merino, dyed in Murex purple by Freyalyn. I have 100 grams and I'm shooting for cobweb. Dunno if I'll succeed at that, but I'm trying.I'm making progress on it, but I doubt I'll finish in the next two weeks...

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I'm working on several things for the TdF this year. One of them is starting out with the silk hankies from my box-o-fun.I had given up hankies a few years ago because prepping them hurt my hands too much. 1 I had been prepping them by poking a hole in the center and then slowly stretching them out into a large circle, before breaking the circle and spinning the result. This puts too much

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If the best gifts are those things that one would thoroughly enjoy, but would not buy for oneself...My family does do good birthday presents!

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Sometimes I wonder...I realized I hadn't posted a picture of the Lacykaty. It wasn't until I had gone the trouble of editing the picture again, and getting it ready to upload that I realized that I've already been through that process and all I really need to do is post the damn thing.So, herewith is a picture of the Lacykaty.Made for K of course.

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Awhile back, I showed you a beginning of Ishbel. I finished it ages ago (and K instantly co-opted it), but it's never been photographed. I still need to get her to hold still long enough to get a body shot, but here at least is the closeup of the lace.Ishbel, handspun grey Corriedale plied with Interlacements Tussah silk that had been dyed in blue/green/red/purple.

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About a month ago, I showed you some spinning I'd been working on. Now that I'm not working both a full time and part time job, I might be able to post more than once a month. (I make no promises.)I mentioned that I wasn't entirely happy with the dye job on the fiber. It's now been all overdyed with the original parent colors and I am much happier with it.We have red:and the knitting that

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I have gotten a bit of spinning done lately. DHF that I dyed, not entirely felicitously. I did like the way the spinning came out.

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Tiger cat trapped in his bathtub. There's something about a sunbeam that just lays a cat out flat.

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Monday: Start new job.Tuesday: Overheard: Person 1: Everybody around here is sick. Person 2: Yep, if you sit here and just listen all you can hear is people coughing and sneezing.Wednesday: Come home with a sore throat.Thursday: Wake up with a headache and sneezing.Friday: Give up in the afternoon and come home early, coughing.Saturday: Spend all day alternately coughing and napping.

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Ten favorite Oscar winning movies.Hmmm...I rarely pay attention to the Oscars. I've almost never seen the nominees before they get voted on. I usually don't get around to seeing the winners or the rest of the nominees until three or four (or more? ETA: apparently "mostly more", given how few winners I've actually seen!) years later. I wasn't even sure which movies I had seen were actually

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The birdfeeder in the back yard attracts a variety of birds at this time of year - dark eyed juncos, cardinals, the occasional chickadee, and a flock of mourning doves. Since the dog died last year, we've had crows and squirrels raiding more often; the cats just don't have quite the same effect.This visitor was a new one:The best I've been able to figure out, it's a kestrel. They eat rodents

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I finally amassed all the ingredients to make one of my favorite breads:Apricot Bread (based on the version in Beard on Bread)Preheat oven to 350F.2 cups [loosely packed] dried California apricots (on the east coast these are harder to find - most everyone carries the Mediterranean which won't make the bread I like).1 cup boiling water, poured over the apricots to soften them. Wait about 30

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Our new(er) computer goes to sleep when not used, to be woken up with a tap on the power button. The screen on the computer goes to sleep before the computer does, to be woken up with a wiggle of the mouse. If one sits down to the computer and thinks that the computer is asleep when it really is only the screen, and therefore taps the power button, the computer powers down instead of waking up.

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10 favorite games from my childhood:1: Jigsaw puzzles. When I was very young I would do them until I was bored with them, then I would turn the puzzle pieces upside down and do them again sans picture. As we got older, we would get a big puzzle for Christmas and spend the week between Christmas and New Year's doing puzzles on the card table. As we finished each one, we would spread newspaper

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Saturday was a busy day for S, involving much hauling from place to place. It started with him needing to show up on the other side of the city for his NYSSMA solo.* S's band solo is always in January and in five years, I have not once driven to solofest in sunny weather. We woke up to snow coming down and the radio saying 1-2 inches expected. 1-2 inches expected (in NY) means, leave 10

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Fawn colored alpaca blended with wool. This is part of a bump I acquired at November's spinning guild meeting. Originally part of the shepherd's stash, he was destashing a bit and I lucked out. This is really nice roving and I'm getting some more practice on woolen spinning.

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We were to get snow until noon - it might have quit by 3, but it isn't a sure thing yet.The spruce tree is almost visible - but the grass is looking rather weighed down.

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Which turned out to be eight to ten inches of snow = shoveling the driveway four times today.Sore shoulder.

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1. Uhhhh.... 2. Better check with someone else.There is a certain organization necessary in order to keep track of four people's schedules. Unfortunately, I think that all of my organizational talents get sucked up in this necessary practice (Monday: S-Cub Scout Assistant, K-Show Choir Intern, J-Networking Mtg; Tuesday: (1st Tuesday E-CE Mtg);K-Vocal Choir;S- Scout meeting; Wednesday: S-Cub

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I plan to knit with the Polwarth skein, but the last skein of last year has been lying on the kitchen island (where it was set after the cats dragged it out of the knitting basket) and every time I passed it, it called my name. I have approximately 650 yards of grey corriedale (pindrafted top spun sort-of long draw/sort-of point-of-contact) plied with Tussah silk from Interlacements. The

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Four hours of plying later, I have a finished skein.I was rather pleased with the consistency of the three plies. I plied to the end of the shortest single. This is what I had left over from the second and third:Having washed, salad-spun, and hung the skein up to dry, I have hopes that I can measure the finished yarn tomorrow afternoon. Then I'll have some idea how much yardage I have to work

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I dyed the red and blue in separate pots. The remainder of the red dye pot was used to dye another stray piece of top. My first spinning of the year has resulted in this:I'm spinning it short draw and, after a bit of sampling, decided that I needed to make a three ply rather than two. I've taken the red end from the red/blue top and am making a third single. I briefly debated chain-plying,

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the more they stay the same. This picture was taken 3 years ago, but the scene was enacted once more today.See a box, get in a box. Fuzzy things in our way? Oh, well.The Christmas tree came in a box and will be returned to the box and the basement. Preferably sans cats.

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Sixteen years ago this evening, K got the little brother she'd been waiting for. Her ecstasy lasted all of about 2 days, but it was nice while it lasted. Her enthusiasm waxed again when he started paying attention, because he thought she was wonderful and she thought he was the best audience she'd ever had. This blissful state of affairs lasted until he was about 6 months; he started crawling

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I dragged out the dye pot and dyed some of the last of my DHF top. (Truly wonderful stuff, I'm going to want to get some more.)I'm experimenting with a couple of different ways to do this. This one was not entirely satisfactory in the fiber form (a little too much white in the result), but I'll wait to pass judgement until I've got it spun up.One of the things I like about this is that I

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or The Prince and the Pea.

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I don't make resolutions. I do have intentions (and superstitions). One of my superstitions is that I should spend New Year's Day doing those things which represent the things I want to spend the next year doing. This also implies not doing those things I don't want to spend the year doing. Superstition or representation of intention, this generally works. It is easier to demonstrate that

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visited 45 states (90%)Create your own visited map of The United States

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Grumpy, Sneezy, Sleepy...It's been oddly busy and dull here. I'm annoyed at various people and institutions. I've dumped flickr/yahoo since they can't figure out how to accept payment from me and keep telling me that I need to change something (unspecified) about how I am paying them. The final straw was the follow-up email they sent me Question: How was our customer service? Answer: Piss

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Ten things to do before the end of summer...1. School supply shopping.2. Changing of the guard in the garden - out with the parsley and the lettuce; in with the broccoli and maybe some cabbages.3. See about harvesting the potatoes. It's my first year with potato grow bags and I'm curious to see how it turned out.4. Put the boat in storage. This means a trip to the Hudson Valley where J's

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I'm so glad it's moving into September. The temperature outside is 67F and we have the windows open and I'm actually wearing long pants vs. shorts for the first time in, oh, what feels like six months. Probably really only 3, but when one is hot, time drags.**************************K is at a car wash fundraiser. She went to it dressed as though today were yesterday (you know, when it was

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I went to dyeing at the Genesee Country Village a few weeks ago. It's the first time I've gotten there this summer and I suddenly realized I didn't have much to take to dye. I'd like to dye the other end of the Zephyr cone, but I can't until I've finished the Dayflower. I've dyed up all my other whites/naturals in yarn already, and short of going out to buy more or getting cracking on spinning

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Ten ways to lighten my mood:1. Go to the African Violet or Orchid Show.2. Read a frivolous book.3. Snorgle a baby.4. Put a lively jig on the CD and dance while doing the dishes. Best done when my kids are not at home as their jeering snickering annoys me again.5. An audiobook on the MP3 and my spinning wheel with something long draw. Or short draw as long as it isn't too slippery or matted or

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Who, me?

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Two years in a row I bought the same sheep's fleece from Whitefish Bay. It was a spotted grey and white. Last year I shipped both fleeces off to a small processor and got a nice note back that my fleeces were in the queue and I'd hear something back in about 15 months. 13.5 months later, here they are.Well worth the wait.So now I have 11 pounds of perfectly wonderful Corriedale roving,

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One of the nice things about living on the east coast for the past few years, is that we've been able to visit Lac Brompton every summer. Sur l'eau is still there, although S is quite a bit bigger than he was when we moved back east. (Upstairs is the living quarters, downstairs is the boat house/shower house; the whole thing straddles a stream, which is completely verboten nowadays, but Sur

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I'm reasonably pleased with how the Maggie BFL is coming out. I'm not entirely happy with my long draw yet, but it is approaching consistency, even if only asymptotically.

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When we first moved to Rochester (6 years ago), I acquired some blue tussah silk in Denim Blue. 3 oz - such a huge amount! (not)When I started spinning it on the Lollipop, I plied it two ply silk - one ply angora. When I ran out of angora, I didn't lose interest particularly, just immediacy. Other things came and went, and I kept working on the silk rather desultorily. When I ran across it

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Dayflower Daydream is moving slowly (almost 500 stitches per round now), but it is still cranking along. I think I'll have enough yarn for another shawl after this...

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While both teenagers were away, J and I ran away for a couple of nights at a B&B. (Bristol Views Bed and Breakfast in Naples, NY. Converted old farmhouse, lovely views, great place to stay.) We went hiking along the Finger Lakes Trail early in the morning before it got too hot, and then we went down to Grimes Glen. I got Grimy Gulch stuck in my head and never can remember the name of the

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and the livin' is crazy. Weirdness abounds.Among other things, S has returned from 10 days with 36000 other scouts. He's tanned, tired, taller (?), and not enthused about turning around and heading out the door again three days later. Not that he doesn't want to go, but that he doesn't want to get ready to go. Oh, well, since he wants to go, he's just going to have to suck it up.I had a small

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Dayflower Daydream is coming along. Slowly. Tinking three rows of over 400 stitches each didn't improve either my mood or my progress. Realizing that it's more than 400 stitches and only going to get worse with the next repeat makes me a little giddy. No wonder it took so long. Actually, realizing that it's more than 400 stitches already makes me want to go double check that I need another

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J is down at Geneseo helping to setup for the NYPower rocket launch this weekend (the weather is looking icky for that but hope springs eternal).S is upstairs avoiding gathering up stuff for packing for his trip to VA on Sunday.In theory I'm sewing patches on uniforms, but I notice a little avoidance going on here as well.This is BFL from High Bid Farm, in the Maggie colorway. Maggie is a

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10 things to take when camping1. Sleeping pad. Preferably an air mattress. My bones are too old for sleeping on the ground.2. Sleeping bag or other night covering, suitable to the weather. A sheet in the summer; a lightweight bag in the fall; our zip together winter bags when there's snow on the ground.3. Pillow. Gotta have a pillow regardless of the weather. 4. Tent. Or possibly a

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K is in Nicaragua on a summer exchange for four weeks. I got a note from her recently which said, in part, "we went up to a lake in a volcano and went swimming... There was a place about 25 feet up where you could jump in, but I thought it was too high so I only did that three times."

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10 things I like about where I live1. College town. Not that I am enamoured of college students en masse, but where there are college towns, there are often side benefits. Cheap entertainment for one - lots of possibilities for music, theater and museums.2. Guilds. Embroidery, weavers, crochet, knit, spinning, lacers...3. Farmer's markets abound.4. Lots of parks - by the Lake, by the river,

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It looks rather like a poster child for bad craigslist photos of spinning wheels for sale, but for some reason, piling the fiber on top of the flyer keeps the cats from thinking it's a cat toy. Why? Dunno.This is the next to the last bit of the Fudge Brownie I was complaining about but I finally mastered it. Unlike most of the top I've been spinning for a very long time, this roving has a

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This summer is scooting on by - one teenager is leaving for a month in 12 days and the other is leaving for 10 days in about three weeks. I'm trying to get everything in order for them to do this, which at the moment seems to involve spending a bunch of money on clothes.I finished another skein of the malabrigo lace-and-silk. I bought a bunch more fiber I didn't need, but which is yummy.* I got

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10 ways to entertain a child(How old a child? How much space do I have to work with?)1. Play I Spy. This is good for many ages - for older kids just pick harder things.2. Play Ghost. This is good for kids who are fairly confident with their spelling, or for those who need practice with their spelling, and has lasted us for many miles in the car after dark.3. Play 20 questions. 4. Read them a

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I acquired some Malabrigo lace recently, and as I started looking into suitable projects for it, I realized that there are a fair number of people who are complaining that it felts in the skein, or as it is being knit up. (That is, there are enough people complaining that there are a fair number of people mocking the people complaining.)There are also a fair number of people who claim they had

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Ten reasons to do Ten on Tuesday:1. Gets me off my duff and makes me put something on the blog.2. Interesting topics (for the most part) that make me ponder a bit.3. Having pondered it, I'm interested in what other people thought.4. Having pondered it, I can make my kids read it too.5. I enjoy reading the comments people make about my lists.7. It helps me find new blogs I might like to read.9.

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End of school-year rush continues STOP S away camping this weekend STOP K's recital this afternoon STOP Houseful of people still here STOP No knitting or spinning taking place here STOP Further bulletins as time allows STOPETA:: Recital went fine STOP J reports Sewer Line Backing Up AAAAAAGGGGGHHHH STOP

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Monday holidays always throw me off - I wind up starting the week behind the eight-ball. This week is going to be particularly busy as we work through the end-of-school-year-rush with everything. S has a Track Banquet, a soccer game, a camping trip, another soccer game and a band concert all in the next 7 days. K has late practices with her Show Choir, a choral concert, tryouts for next year's

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Thanks everybody for the nice compliments on Blue Cocoon. It was a good knit - written instructions only, which made a change from the past few projects before it, and a good prep for the current project, Dayflower Daydream, which is both written and charted, but for which I'm finding the written instructions easier to follow.It's a circular shawl, in eight panels. It starts with Pattern A,

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A friend of mine was a sweetheart and took some pictures for me. Ummm... a month ago, apparently, looking at the date stamp.I finished it about a week before that (before we left for the Okefenokee). Blue Cocoon, also known as the Cocoon Stitch Half-Circle Shawl from Martha Waterman's Traditional Knitted Lace Shawls, knitted up using the blue DHF/silk I spun up earlier.

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I've not gotten much spinning done of late, but there has been a bit of plying going on:Spindle spun BFL (from High Bid Farm)and my rustic yarn all plied up, rinsed and air-dried.That's all there is of the BFL (unless I buy another bit of top, which would be a different dye lot) and I haven't measured it yet. It's fingering weight, maybe.That's about a quarter of the Cotwold (I have a pound of

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about having a teenager with a license is the ability, as she's heading out the door to take herself and her brother to their music lessons, to hand her a $10 and say "Stop on the way home please and pick up the gallon of milk and loaf of bread I didn't get when I was out earlier."

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1. The 1000 Islands - On the St. Lawrence Seaway, between NY and Ontario, are 300-some odd islands, known as the 1000 islands. Blue waters, lovely scenery, lots of things to do. I'll never forget the day my (then) 8-yo brother took his little kayak and paddled to Canada and back (crossing the sea lane each way) without telling anyone where he was going...2. Yosemite - One of my favorite places

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Why is it that the day it's convenient for me to go watch S's sporting events is always the day it decides to be cold, windy and rainy?Watching the 4 x 400 was fun, but not the rain.

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I'd like to interview.Hmmm.In alphabetical order:Natalie Angier - one of my favorite science writers. I started with Woman: An Intimate Geography, which is a book I thoroughly enjoyed, which I've bought or lent to every woman in my family, and which I think every woman should read. I wish she'd a) update it with the latest research and b) write a similar one for men. I want one to hand to my

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Meet Fudge Brownie. From Nistock Farms, one of our local shepherds, this is Cotswold roving, not the BFL or Merino/silk or DHF fine wool top that has made up the bulk of my spinning for the past couple of years. I'm working on going for woolen yarn, not worsted, and retaining the soft loftiness of the fiber prep. The result is not entirely satisfactory, but that's the fault of the spinner,

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I actually finished spinning and plying the darkest skein here the day before we left on vacation, but it was wet and dripping - not good photo fodder. You might recall that this started out like this:I think I like the way it turned out. I was thinking I would turn this into a shawl, but now I'm not sure. I'm now pondering the thought of a vest. It doesn't really matter at this precise

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A number of people have inquired - why the Okefenokee? Well, because. It seemed like a good idea at the time, and aside from the distance and time to get there and back, it was a good idea.We did enjoy alligator hunting, and the Okefenokee is unlike any of the other swamps I've been to (actually, each of the swamps I've been to has been different from all the others). There are three entrances

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Back from the Okefenokee - mountains of laundry to do, groceries to buy, pics to upload.The best day of alligator counting was 23. Big alligators, little alligators, baby alligators...

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One of my favorite blog sites is the Rochester Falconcam. It's a funny thing - I like looking at webcams of various raptors, but the only one I follow is the local one. There's just something about knowing that I could go downtown and watch the falcons in person (although I never really do - the closest I get is scanning the airspace around Kodak Tower when we go down there for other reasons).

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Ok - the assignment today is magazines. Do I have 10? Not sure... but I guess we'll see.1. Spin-Off. I subscribe to this one.2. Interweave Knits. And this.3. Popular Science. J subscribes to this one, but I read it.4. Scientific American. And this.5. Consumer Reports. I particularly like the last page with the idiotic advertisements outed.6. Reader's Digest. My MIL subscribes, and I

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This is the crocuses at their best - sadly yesterday's 85F caused many of them to wilt, poor things.

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'Member when I was fussing about the lightest one of these? I dragged out the dye pot for a shawl I wasn't happy with the color of (more about that later), and while I was at it, I threw the pinky skein in. It's still in the same relative position, next to the medium colored red.I don't think it's too pink any more.

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1. Obligatory crocus pictures from those of us in the northeast.2. Robins have been spied flitting about and listening for worms.3. Our precipitation has changed from snow to rain.4. The incredible 7 foot snow mountain in the front yard has dwindled...5. ...and the grass is starting to green-up.6. Indoor track practice has given way to outdoor track practice.7. Being much more opportunistic,

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I've been getting bored with cooking and tired of the complaints that I fix the same old stuff - both of them probably stemming from the fact that I have been in a cooking rut. So, I've been looking for new things to fix. This one was labeled "Bangers and Mash Slimmed Down" but the text of the article says it is similar to "colcannon". Ok - we'll call it bangers and mash since I'm not

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to celebrate St. Patrick's day. Hmmm....I've never been one to celebrate St. Paddy's day, as it wasn't particularly a big deal when I was growing up. However:1. Wear green. This was important, particularly when I was in elementary school, as those who didn't wear green on that day were fair game to be pinched. I wound up with bruises one year...2. Wish my friend Happy Birthday as her

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After seeing references to it sporadically over the years, I finally requested "Three Men in a Boat" by Jerome K. Jerome from the library. Oh, my. If you need a good belly laugh, I strongly recommend this one. Three men (and a dog) going off on a boating holiday on the Thames. I'm only a little bit into it and I keep having to put it down because my sides hurt so much.

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After all that snow we had just a bit ago, the temperatures this week have been in the 40s and 50s. I have a serious case of Spring Fever.That is all.

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And, some of you may remember this...a different dyeing experiment. I like this one a bit better, as there's more variation in the color. After flailing a bit, trying to decide how I like it spun best, I settled on this:this is a two ply from the lightest end of the fiber. I'm working on the middle section now,with the darkest end yet to come. I'm thinking of something like Girasole, but am

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Remember this?It's turned into this:The change in shade is not an artifact of the light - it really does change in shade from dark red to peach. The red will be good for Red Scarf Project, but I think the peach end will be too pink-y. I'm really not sure what I'll do with the pink end, but I suppose something will come to me.

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21 years ago, J and I were married. It's been a good ride.

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of the wips I finished off during the Olympics:One Artisan's Vest from the Green Mountain Spinnery Knitting Book. I really like the color, I liked knitting it, I wanted a vest to keep my shoulders cold (we had just moved to NY from Oregon - in January). I got it all finished, just needed to tuck in the ends, and realized that the mohair content in the Brown Sheep Lamb's Pride is too much for me

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One baby surprise jacket (complete with cat head, because she just can't leave it alone). This was knit from some DHF that I dyed in the bump and then spun about worsted weight in a chain ply. I have finally crocheted the edging, tucked in the ends and washed it. Pre-finishing it looked like this: and you can see how much it grew with a dunk in the water. The picture post washing is still wet

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I got to the end of the wool peddler's shawl and had a bunch of yarn left over (not surprising since I had started with a little over a pound of finished yarn). So, I knit a scarf. This was the second time I knit Sylvia's cabled rib scarf and I still like it. The cables don't show as well in the variegated yarn (surprise surprise!) but it makes a soft cushy squishy scarf anyway. And then,

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Well, we wound up with a total of about 19 inches of snow out of the storm. The bird bath was nearly swamped and there were no birds in sight for about 24 hours.The pear tree is hidden by the mounds of snow on that side of the driveway.Fortunately, the sun has come out today and things are a little brighter.

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Shall we review the bidding for those playing along at home?1. NWS yesterday claimed an inch for yesterday, 8-12 inches last night, an inch or two today.2. The radio this morning stated we'd had 8-12 inches, depending on where you were and an inch or so more today, tapering off mid-morning.3. The paper this morning stated we'd probably get about 15 inches out of this storm.4. NWS this morning

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The next item on the WIPs list is a cat favorite*. They've loved it since it first came in the house as a part of a fleece:A Corriedale fleece split between three of us, purchased from Whitefish Bay Farm, I wound up with about 2.5 pounds. It was one of the fleeces that shaded from white through grey to a very dark grey. Using the dog comb shown above, I opened the tips of the locks before

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I may have mentioned that I don't ordinarily do -alongs or -swaps. I hate dropping what I'm in the middle of in order to do something to someone else's schedule. Exceptions do occasionally get made, particularly when it's something I was going to do anyway. Ravelympics came along and I thought about how and whether I wanted to do that. The category for WIPs seems tailormade for where I am

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I don't know what it is about this shawl. I have taken more awful pictures of this than any other shawl in the history of blogging. This one is about as good as it gets.It is a comfortable shawl to wear and the pattern was well done. Leaf Lace Shawl by Evelyn Clark, knit as written for smallest size in Jaggerspun Zephyr.

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I have three amaryllis bulbs that I acquired three years ago. I ignore them. I don't do any of the things one is supposed to do in order to encourage them to bloom again. They don't care, they just keep on going.And yes, that is yarn framed by the blooms, sitting on the shelf above their heads.

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It doesn't matter how many times you've seen the magic trick - it's always a show stopper. Unblocked:and blocked:

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We had two inches of snow today, give or take a bit. Fluffy snow, for the most part. Since K has her license now, I'm not having to pick her up after school every day. I went out and shoveled the drive after I got home, and once I was back inside, the snow plow promptly came by and dumped a 2 foot by 3 inch pile at the end of the drive. I did have to go pick up S at 5. He came out from track

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Next we have some more Chasing Rainbows, this time 100% Bombyx silk.*This purple pile turned into this:Again, I haven't measured the grist, but I love the way it slides all smooth and cool through my hands. The Orange One thinks it should be just right for a cat toy so I'm having to keep it put up well out of sight.* I meant to put a footnote on yesterday's post, but seem to have forgotten to do

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This is actually the oldest of the recently spun fluff. I haven't measured it yet and currently have no idea what I'm planning to do with this. One strand mulberry silk* and one strand white DHF. The silk gives a shine and a firmness to the yarn; the DHF gives a soft and poofy airiness. I wasn't entirely successful with the DHF - I wasn't as even with my single as I would have liked, but it

Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-25617742700699909122010-01-27T13:25:00.003-05:002010-01-27T13:45:28.925-05:00

I've been getting a bunch of spinning done; what I have not been getting done is taking pictures or keeping track of what I've been spinning.So: herewith the first in a series on What I Did on My (Spinning) Vacation.Once upon a very long time ago (by internet standards), when Spindlicity first opened, they ran a contest. They wanted items made from spindle spun yarn and I obliged by sending

Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com2tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-63061391917993488882010-01-22T07:10:00.002-05:002010-01-22T07:28:59.870-05:00

There are a lot of fibers I like to spin, but if I had to pick just one and stick with it, this would be it. When I sit down to spin, there is no other fiber/prep that says "ooo, yeah! why do I spin anything else?"Dunnose Head Farm, MerinoxPolwarth crosses. My bumps have been breeding - every time I think I surely must be out of it, I keep finding more. This was dyed with Cushings Scarlet and

Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com3tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-40480990282394252592010-01-21T14:35:00.002-05:002010-01-21T14:35:40.905-05:00

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The curse of the lace knitter: after the first 40 or 50 rows, lace items look like blobs. We wave them around and say things like "see, this bottom edge will actually be straight across when I'm done, and the pattern looks like 'this'" as we stretch a 10 cm square out over the palm of the hand. People nod and back away carefully.

Elizabethhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/12768142849449016414noreply@blogger.com4tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-18603480.post-44467669900437193922010-01-16T07:15:00.004-05:002010-01-16T07:23:44.102-05:00

And some of us are helping her celebrate. Stop by and say Hi.

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