Yarnivorous

G'day all! There is nothing like a dame... and this is nothing like an FO! But it is moving right along. I knitted from the second aqua stripe whilst waiting for the bus, sitting on the bus, waiting for the bus, sitting on the bus, waiting for the bus, etc. The yarn is one of the Online stable. As with most of the German/similar sock yarns, I doubt I could wear this sock, so it is just as well that this is an Undeserving Husbandly sock. I have to put in a protest vote. I want a new body. Yep. My protest vote is against myself. I had a very nice, if late, lunch of left over mild curry from Sunday night. It was very pleasant and I gobbled it up, as much as you can gobble anything that involves lots of runny stuff that needs a spoon not a fork. Half an hour later? Bang! Two hours of extreme twitchiness and funny stuff happening around the base of my ribcage. I am starting to wonder if my gall bladder is dodgy, along with my gut and both my shoulders. (Shoulders? R bicep ...

G'day all! No finished object, or half finished objects, today! No, today I went digging in my fibre stash. Oh dear. I have a LOT of Very Nice Stuff. So much VNS that I don't know when I'll be able to spin it all. I mailed myself some stuff from home before I left Oz - both airmail and sea mail, so I got a nice surprise months after I had forgotten about it (but thankfully before we had to leave Colorado). I've been to a couple of fibre festivals. I've managed to pick up at least 12 fleeces along the way... Now the question is how to manage my fibre collection down. Half the stuff I brought with me has been given as gifts, the rest I hoard zealously, jealously, pointlessly. It will go in the queue to be spun up. Then I most likely will try to sell it. That is why it is pointless to hoard it - I don't really want it to make stuff out of, I just want it cos it is something I can't get here. I've always been a hoarder and if something is different/...

G'day all! It has been a good week for FOs. Today I give you a pretty bad shot of the pirate fingerless mitts. That makes 8 days in a row of posting (half) finished objects! Yay me! Yes one is slightly larger than the other - the first one is snug and doesn't allow for my watch. So I added four stitches to the ribbing of the second one. Not as snug and I have a chance of getting the watch under it. Pattern: my own (I made it up as I went along). Yarn: Mission Falls 136, not 1824, colour 024, also Koigu Kersti in all colours bar yellow. I'll have to see if I can get some modelled shots of the mitts. It is hard to get good shots at night, though having looked at some pics I took today, it is harder getting good shots when you don't put the camera on AWB (auto white balance) for outdoors shots. The colour is gobsmackingly blue.... anon!

G'day all! I must be feeling better this week. I've done a fair bit of spinning (was halfway through spinning that up, got the bobbin full then two-plied it and it is thinner than I expected. Such is life! But after it is washed and thwacked into shape that may change... Fleece is from a Black Pines sheep CVM/Romeldale called Laura. Plying may or may not be dodgy.) I've also spun up 4oz of BFL. It is not as smooth as I am used to BFL being and I think I'll list it in my shop - I don't think I will use it but other people are not as princess and the pea when it comes to wool as I am. It is *very* me colours though. No pic yet - have to set the twist and thwack it yet. I managed to finish a fingerless mitt, of my own design, three times in 18 hours. Grr! I thought it was done then decided it was too tight, re-did it, realised I had mucked up the striping going into the ribbing, redid it. I would have almost had a pair by now if I had just done it right the f...

G'day all! A couple of weeks ago I bought some Mini Mochi. Oh pretty rainbow colours! On Tuesday, I started knitting it up. Since then I've been obsessed. Here's the result. The yarn is really fuzzy. I've been pulling out the hairiest hairs but it is still fuzzy - as fuzzy as various of the sock that I have washed a few times. Will be interesting to see how this sock washes up. Yes, I will make a second one and see if I can wrinkle out some issues with the pattern. At the moment, after doing the setup repeat, it doesn't really follow the chart, just common sense. Biggest problem with the yarn, apart from splittiness due to its singles nature, is The green crocked. Pics are not great but I think you can get the idea of where I tension the yarn and what bits actually hold the needles, at least for my right, throwing, hand. First, I have to finish a fingerless mitten and get cracking on my Feb socks (on Sunday). They will be husbandly socks. Speaking of which,...

G'day all! This is the last FO for the moment unless I get a bee in my bonnet about finishing things I haven't actually started (like the fingerless mitts to go with today's FO). As I was knitting it, I thought it looked like (stripy) stained glass, but someone else saw it as being piratey. So ahhhhrrrr, me hearties, I give you the pirate beret (without pirate ahhhhrrr expression cos y'know it ain't that attractive and I have some meagre standards about my appearance.) I think it looks a lot better on that off - it looks like a funny little bag thing. It wouldn't sit flat. Yarn: Mission Falls 1824 in eggplant (024), Koigu Kersti in pretty much every colour. 4.5mm needles. Pattern: Though the Loops beret recipe . Fun to knit! anon!

G'day all! What do you do when you pick up a languishing UFO and decide to finish it, only to find that after one row, your ears and throat are itching and your hands are burning? Is this why it is a UFO? Because you are allergic to alpaca and it has 10% alpaca? You've knitted and worn a jacket made out of the same yarn (in a different colour) without any problems, but that was before you tried processing and spinning alpaca fleece. So do I take antihistamines and finish it or do I frog it and try to pass on the yarn to a new home (preferably by swapping for something else). It may be dusty, though it has been kept in bags and/or boxes. In the meantime, another UFO has been glaring at me from half under my armchair. I put it there so it would guilt me into finishing it. That plan did work, eventually - a month or so later I pulled my finger out. After all it is tedious having to pick it up to vacuum under it. Looks like a mess, doesn't it? It is made out of some Mar...