Thursday, January 17, 2008


ive been busy with non-fun things lately.

all ive done this week is make this fun tri peaked hat for my friend. its made of some green recycled yarn i bought in stockholm and has a inside trim of brown knitpicks merino style bc the green yarn isnt too soft. i like it, its so much fun. bad picture.

school starts tuesday...so much to do before the end. my house is so cold, studio is so cold. i cant wait for spring.

Wednesday, January 9, 2008

tweed

right now my favorite yarn has got to be rowan felted tweed - the colors, the fabric, the beautiful tweedyness of it. so far this winter i have made three hats out of it: the first was a ginger shedir (from knitty) which was my first foray into cables (and i used a cable needle the whole time...i have to figure out how to cable with the cable needle next time...). this i threw together in 4 days due to my love of using knitting to procrastinate. the second was the purple concoction of tam/snood. it didnt come out quite like i wanted it but i like it none the less.

at this time i came into possession of a red jacket which neither of these hats matched. my ears were cold for weeks.

finally i got myself a neutral color and yesterday in the beautiful sunshine (and 65 degrees!) of rittenhouse square, i knit myself up a plain old hat for when winter comes back and bites us. its a tad short but im pleased. i have lots of yarn left over. maybe ill make another one...

but right now all im allowed to make is the hat that ive owed my friend for um, ever. i procrastinated on that today by cleaning and decorating my house with my roommate for most of the early afternoon which was promptly followed by pizza, ice cream, and a few howls from passerby's who were all very intrigued with our ice cream cones. i have a busy week ahead...i must wake up early.

Thursday, January 3, 2008

And if you were an ocean, I'd learn to float

last night i saw Juno and it was great. the whole style of the movie and the way they talked was just so much fun. and the soundtrack....good. i melted at the end when juno and bleeker sang together, it was just too sweet.

i rung in the new year wearing my finished herringbone mitts. well...not wearing. i had to hide them from the massive amounts of champagne that was flying around the room and the crazy stampeding crowd, but they were with me safe in my bag. I had finished them just before i went out and had to show them to the outside world. i really liked doing the colorwork and i am definitely going to do more soon.

today i went on a trip to the yarn store to get yarn for gifts that i havent even started....yea im bad with timing. im going to make another pair of colorwork gloves (im thinking eunnys endpaper mitts). i also have to make my brother a pair of fingerless gloves, a hat for my friend that ive been promising him for ages, as well as a hat that matches my red coat. i got:





- rowan felted tweed in whisper. it is a great gray color with speck of white and blue. the colors with go great with my red and green jackets. im excited


-RCY cashsoft dk in lichen and cashew. these will become mitts





- RCY cashsoft dk in kingfish and some more cashew. these are a surprise.

-nashua creative focus superwash in back [not pictured]

i have so many other things i should be doing. i meant to wake up early this morning and go to studio but of course, i didnt get up. but at least i did think a lot about it last night. i have a bunch of great ideas. my favorite one right now is creating 3d spaces through the alinement's of the library cabinet drawers. tomorrow i will make myself go to studio.

OH! and i also have a notebook in the works.