Crafts and Domestics
Knitting, baking, and drinking beer
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These are super cool, but I don’t think my Japanese is going to be good enough to read this pattern!
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Ridiculous yarn sale today. All of this for $50. It’s all merino, cashmere, alpaca, and silk. The two hand painted hanks in the front alone cost $24 retail. I saw an advertisement on Craigslist that an internet yarn store was going out of business and selling everything for $4 or less. It was AWESOME. It just so happened to be the same people that run Main Street Yarn in Mill Creek, which is a pretty awesome store in its own right. So excited to go on Ravelry and list all of this in my stash!!
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Holy poop. I really, really want this. Especially after Craft posted this video about a super awesome Bill Cosby inception sweater. Seriously, if someone wants to donate to this cause, you are getting a freaking awesome sweater.
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So it has been approximately a thousand years since my last post, since which I have completed a couple things. Here’s that circle scarf I was working on all finished up! Now if only it would be cold enough to wear it. I want to make more for Christmas presents, and I could use color/yarn suggestions. If only I could find more $7 skeins of highlander!
P.S. Sorry for the super blurry mirror pic!
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Working on Norwegian House Slippers. They are going to be perfect to wear in our new apartment in Ballard, which is a Norwegian neighborhood. I’ll need to make Paul one of those Viking hats, too!
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I tried felting for the first time. It was a roller coaster of emotions. It basically went like this:
10:15- Put everything in the washing machine.
10:20- Check the washing machine. Realize it’s still filling up with water. Read a different set of felting instructions and read that I was supposed to check it five minutes AFTER it started moving.
10:30- Check again, this time the agitation has started already. “Oh my god!!! Why is it stretching out?!?!! That is the opposite of what it needs to do!!” Frantically read multiple websites with felting directions, assuring me that this is normal.
10:45- Keep running the machine, checking every 5 minutes. The brown and the dark green are starting to felt but the light green isn’t felting at all. Banging my head against a wall for using different brands of yarn.
10:50- Start the machine over again. Starting to lose hope.
10:55- Check again. OH MY GOD IT’S PERFECT!!!!
It came out perfectly. I just got to sew everything together now!
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Finished my kindle case! I was inspired by this pattern, but I didn’t want to felt it, so I knit it flat on straight needles and seamed up the sides. I’m pretty pleased with the results. The yarn used was Red Heart Super Saver in Marakesh.
