tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-62768416407737370912011-11-27T20:00:26.909-05:00This is the sister-blog to my gardening blog. When it rains so much my garden plot may just float away in a sea of mud, I take refuge in knitting. When I'm supposed to be hiking and we get an electrical storm instead...I knit, and drink wine. I needed new clothing anyway. Drop in, say hi, ask questions. It's all good. Sometimes I get all ambitious and even review the yarn samples I knit up...Margohttp://www.blogger.com/profile/13256087409975699106noreply@blogger.comBlogger191100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6276841640773737091.post-53628099287043580972011-01-15T01:21:00.000-05:002011-01-15T01:21:37.763-05:00

So that was pretty full of awesome. I attended tonight's Ignite Craft Boston event, hosted and arranged by Guido of the Common Cod Fiber Guild, and although I expected it would be fun (as all the Guild events I've attended have been) I wasn't quite prepared for the degree of awesomeness. Let me define the awesomeness: lots of enthusiasm, knowledge, and a healthy dose of humor with every

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Yes, a chenille bathrobe. Let me back up a step here. I discovered, in with some fabric I was gifted, a whole slough of tangled thick cotton chenille in blue, grey, black, and a grey-green. Aside from the challenge of untangling it and skeining it up, what should I do with it?!I have been looking at old paintingsby Paul Klee lately, particularly the ones that are essentially color studies,

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So I've started a couple baby sweaters- not as though I need more projects or anything, but these are small and fun and cute. The first one is underway and it's from a Sublime Baby pattern book -" girly matelot" - except their version has horizontal stripes that I'm just not going for. I'm using some of that Elsbeth Lavold Silky Wool - it knits up so well and the fabric has such a good 'fall' to

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So, instead of going to finercamp over on the Arsenal Center for the Arts, I went down the street to get coffee and kept going on to one of my local yarn stores, Wild&Woolly. I wanted to paw some possible candidate yarns for some baby sweaters I plan to make for a few new parents I know. Well, I ended up deciding against the Berroco vintage for one project, and chose some elsbeth lavold silky

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So I've been following the exploits/tweets of Guido of the Common Cod Fiber Guild - my local org. Apparently he's put together a very cool fibercamp event this weekend- and it's free! If I can summon the will to go out in the cold, I think I'll just have to go. He's been posting pictures and promised to podcast and or stream an event at 2pm today so check the website for all the details http://

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Finally finishing some projects - and just in time for the snow, too!This was based on the Danielle Hood - which to my eyes looks like a cowl! (with all respect to Norah, but I don't do fair isle... I just don't.) Strangely, the Danielle Cowl is actually a funny buttoned or button-adorned scarf-like garment. Never mind. I finished it, and have been happily wearing it ever since. It's quite easy -

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Common Cod talk, originally uploaded by Margo and George.A quick update.Among other things, the good side of the rain we've had to endure in my neck of the woods (rain every day for 45 days and counting...) is that I've gotten more knitting done than I normally would. This is a happy thing, given how very very many projects I have running at the moment.I also *gasp* won schwag, thanks to knitgrrl

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So, I have been wanting a few "plain vanilla" projects to work on in between my more complicated and demanding cable or other projects. Perversely, with a white and orange cat, I still attempt to maintain my preference for black clothing. Yeah, Sisyphus has nothing on me. At least I haven't (yet) developed allergies. Yet. {knocks wood; throws salt over shoulder, etc.}I've been repeatedly admiring

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So, the Pakucho arrived, and I've been very excited to get those samples started. At first blush, it feels nice and soft, like an old (favorite) terry cloth bathrobe. For my purposes, this is excellent: the softness of age with the strength of a new fiber. Nice colors, and allegedly they improve upon the first, hot, washing. When I get these finished I'll update with photos.Cascade Pastaza: color

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So, I've ordered some sample skeins of pakucho.I've been meaning to for ages.I forget exactly how I came across this yarn, and started admiring it, but I was totally enamored of the fact that the cotton naturally grows in its own variety of colors - that is, shades of cream, tan, cocoa, and green. These had a really nice gentle sheen to them, as well as being appealing.I had to find out whether

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Well, I've survived the holiday rush, relatively unscathed (i.e., I took a few days off for a restful staycation, and slept!)Some projects were completed, other started, and still more added to my ravelry queue in the faint and distant hope of ever getting around to casting on, let alone completing them. Still, I'm diligently working on a cardigan for the dad, and I completed and mailed out to my

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So close to finishing the little baby hooded cardigan that originally started out as a guernsey sweater - ha ha ha, therein lies a story. I start these projects and just keep improvising, it's a thing I have. Nonetheless, this is exciting. I love the cranberry color and the feel of the yarn, so although the first time I knitted the sleeves, I was wondering if it was just that I'm unfamiliar with

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These little socks crack me up, so I'm doing them in a lavender color for my baby niece.

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So, my ravelry queue of projects is laughably long - and seriously, it's true I'm working on most of them all the time - which is why none are finished! Obviously, there are only so many hours in the day.I don't know about anyone else, but I switch projects depending on whether I just want to cruise along with stockinette stitch, or follow a more complex pattern, or what. That of course means

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Spent some time this weekend chez Mum, the two of us sitting in the back yard, in the shade, knitting. My part of the conversation consisted of mumbling numbers and "Slip, knit two together, pass" and "no, no. where was I?"Some recent revelations include: I apparently knit using a combination of "Eastern" and "Western" techniques, given how I approach knit and purl stitches. If you're interested,

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I just found out this morning how to pronounce (knitting pattern designer) Nora Gaughan's name. See, that's the trouble with only ever seeing things online or otherwise in print. I was thinking it was "Gowan," as in Rowan - but, it's not.It rhymes with 'dawn' - so it's pronounced 'Gon.' I was guessing how it was pronounced, but the owner of one of my awesome LYSs had hosted a book-signing with

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July2408 067, originally uploaded by Margo and George.I'll figure out how to make an article of clothing using the colors of this vetch.

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cinnamon sublime sweater, originally uploaded by Margo and George.So instead of the wool projects, I've been racing along, working on this one instead. And a baby sweater as well, but I'm keeping that one under wraps until it's time to send it to the new parents. Then I'll post final photos for that project. In the meantime, presuming I don't knit decreases where I should have increases...I hope

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hiking sweater, originally uploaded by Margo and George.I'm so close...so close to being finished with this sweater, and yet even with all the rain, I can't cope with that much wool in my lap during the hot months of summer. It's just too much. Still, by September it will have cooled off enough for me to finish, I think. Just that last little bit of sleeve...

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