tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52660702009-02-21T07:17:28.835-05:00This is yet another knitting blogRebeccahttp://www.blogger.com/profile/03721322624791772809noreply@blogger.comBlogger366125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5266070.post-57794186416822868772007-08-28T08:05:00.000-04:002007-08-28T15:09:30.844-04:00

So it's been a long time since I posted. First, I was having ISP troubles. I think my webhosting is still kind of weird, but FTP seems to be working a LITTLE better. Then, we went on a trip to Niagara Falls, Canada. We weren't expecting the Las Vegasiness of it all. Still, it was fun. Niagara Falls IS pretty, and they light the waterfalls up at night. (We don't think they are as pretty as

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I have this Queen Anne's Lace (wild carrot) yarn:Which of these should I make?The latest Six Sox KAL socks, I Love Gansey socksHederaBaudelaireHelp me decide, I just have to sew together my last Six Sox KAL socks and then I will have no socks to knit on the bus! I can work on the new samprjón mystery project for now, it's too hot to start working with lopi in the house, but the bus is usually

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Called Wood Sorrel or Gaukasúra, when I was little we used to eat the pods of this plant. They are sort of lemon-flavoured. (Isn't it amazing what random things one eats when one is small?)I decided to try to try dyeing with it, here's what I got:At first, I didn't like the beigey colour, but it kind of grew on me over time, there is something fun and old-fashioned about it.For colour reference

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I finally finished clue #1 of the Mystery Stole. Now I am just three and a half clues behind. I thought I would make some headway this week, but I finally got my Harry Potter book.Yesterday when I was getting my coffee I saw a lady pushing a baby carriage down the sidewalk with a bird cage inside and a grey parrot perched on the handle.

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The other day, I was cooking supper and was wearing an April Cornell dress and spilled whatever I was cooking (it involved grease) all over my pretty dress. So I decided I needed an apron.I found this free "pattern" (it's more like a set of instructions). I happened to have some pretty stash fabric that had been intended for some gift project that I never made years ago, so I sewed myself an

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Last weekend, we went up to Concord, New Hampshire to see Okkervil River play. We stayed in the fabulous Centennial Inn. It is a beautiful Victorian, redecorated in a classic modern style. Our room was beautiful. The food was excellent, and reasonably priced. The bathroom had Gilchrist & Soames soap, shampoo, AND conditioner. And of course, the concert was fun.I had joined the Mystery Stole

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I had these weeds growing in my yard, they reminded me of Japanese Indigo and I thought maybe I can do something with them:As a Girl Scout, I always won the plant identification contest, I enjoyed poring through books to find the match. So I used Google and identified these as Polygonum Persicaria, in English smartweed (among other names: Redshank, Lady's thumb, Heartweed), in Icelandic flóajurt

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We went to an antique store the other day, and I found this vintage knitting book from the 1970s. It's pretty cool, some of the stuff is dated, but there are some nice articles on basic design and fitting, and some stitch patterns (with samples in colour) and tips on crochet and embroidery. I'm kind of excited to have this good basic reference, especially with crochet, which I am still not good

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I have a lot of lily of the valley growing in my garden:So I decided to cut it up and put it in a dye pot:I cooked it and let it sit overnight. Then I strained out (and discarded) the leaves and put yarn that had been mordanted with alum into the pot. I cooked that for a couple of hours, until it looked ready, then I left it overnight. I washed it out in the morning, and let it dry:Now I have

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Every year, one of my university friends has a big midsummer party. I always feel like I am dragging K to this party of crazy people drinking akvavit and eating homemade pickled herring and roast pig. She was really disappointed to miss it. Kids always manage to surprise you. This year, I had to give up going to go to my mother's graduation, she got a second MFA in poetry. This qualifies her

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I have been working on the latest sock from Six Sock Knitalong, the Victorian Lace Sock.I used my purchase from MA Sheep & Wool, it is yarn from Foxfire Fiber. I really liked this yarn, it's slightly different shades of green, just what I was looking for. I love the colourful sock yarns but I keep liking this intricate patterns that look awful with it.I went to the hardware store today to get

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Every morning, I go make coffee and get a glass of orange juice and drink my juice while reading emails. This morning, I looked out the window and I saw a black-tailed deer. Sadly, I don't have a decent camera, so I couldn't get a picture. Which is really too bad, because they aren't from around here, they are from the other side of the country. Because of this, I emailed a guy from the

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I've been knitting long enough to know better. Part of the problem is that my tape measures seem to have all run off with the gypsies. Or whomever it is that tape measures run off with. At any rate, I thought this sweater seemed to be long enough, until I finished the lace bit (the really complicated lace chart bit that took days) and realized the sweater didn't measure the number of cm it was

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(Bonus points for anyone who recognizes the song title)It's been a crazy week, so I've been knitting but have had no time to photograph knitting, and am sharing a shot of my roses which suddenly budded and opened over the last few days. There are also a few flax plants flowering near them, as well as my lavender all budding. This is such a fun time of year.So instead I will share a few fun

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Tabitha tagged me, so I guess I will play.I think we've all seen the rules, but just in case.... if you are tagged, you are supposed to write the rules and seven facts about yourself. You are theoretically supposed to tag 7 other people and leave their names on your blog as well as leaving a comment on their blog, but I don't think I will do that to anyone. Besides, almost everyone has played

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We went to the Massachusetts Sheep and Woolcraft Fair today.I really like the flowery dress on this sheep.We didn't see any Icelandic sheep, but we saw some yarn made from Icelandic fleece (it was really nice and soft and they have some lovely laceweight). But we did see a nice Icelandic woman,. she tracked us down after we had had a chat with the sheep breeders about Iceland.I had to buy

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I got a pool membership today, so I think that makes me officially a suburbanite. Scary.In keeping with my Stepford Wife status, I made some food for a school fair, Swedish meatballs and Pepparkakor. (This recipe is really nice, but they aren't kidding about it making around 300 cookies. Usually when a recipe says "Makes 3 dozen" I get a dozen. But Ingi likes these one better than the

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It's ironic, because I have a pile of finished things that I haven't been able to photograph. When there is decent sunlight, I'm busy, and my digital camera is crappy enough to not photograph things well if it's not bright out.I finished the Elfine socks the other week, and I even wore them last week when it got a bit colder again. But so far these are the best pictures I was able to take:If I

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I got my rather belated gift from my in-laws, but I don't mind since it's such a great one. Rósaleppaprjón í nýju ljósi, which I thought looked like a cool book, but I was mistaken. It is actually an incredibly cool book. There is a huge section on various knitting history (mostly focused on different types of classic shoe insoles, which the designs are based on). Did you know, for example,

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Well, there is one more day in the samprjón and I have absolutely no idea what this is:A shield for a fashion-conscious Valkyrie? A colourful hat for the pope? An alternate shell for a large tortoise who has misplaced his?I hope that last step doesn't need much yarn because this leftover stash yarn is almost gone. I had to rewind the purple yarn to finish this bit. I don't see how Sigga Sif

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No, I am not talking about gatherings with coffee and knitting.Tonight I went to the town meeting after the town budget failed to pass. This is a peculiar New England thing (I guess anyway) where at least in this town everyone argues about the budget. We have two groups, the people who think the elected officials are making sensible decisions about the budget, and a group that just doesn't want

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I dyed some yarn with Kool-aid this weekend:I love those expensive hand-dyed yarns that get pretty variegation in the same colour. So I wanted to try getting that effect with Kool-aid dyeing. I love how it's knitting up so far.Here's how I got the effect. I took one 100 g skein of superwash white yarn and soaked it in the sink with 1 cup of vinegar and a squirt of castille soap and warm water.

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I haven't been able to get a picture of the shawl in-action, or Aftur (which I actually wore today, since it got cooler). So here's something I started this week (excuse the blurry picture, hopefully I can get a shot with better lighting later):It is the Horcrux socks, from the Yahoo Group Six Sock Knitalong. I just joined this group, it's pretty cool. They have a pattern every other month to

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We are having the most beautiful, sunny weather. It makes up for all the rain we've been having.I decided to take advantage of the sun to block Hálfskák:(Since I couldn't use it for the wedding, I took my time with blocking it.)How do you like my shawl blocking board (an old sheet and 2 pieces of styrofoam insulation)?This was the first time I ever blocked a shawl with such a complicated

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You know you are a success as a mom when your child says "We are having tofu for dinner. Yay!!!!!"I finished a few things over the weekend, but the socks and flood were more interesting, so I posted that instead.I made a pair of pocketbook slippers. They are kind of silly on, but they are still fun. (The kids were trying to figure out what they were when they were sitting on the arm of the

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