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attn: fiber lovers!

nowhereslow — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 23:53:16 +0000

i know this is WAY late, but if you love fiber, head down to the ConocoPhillips Atrium at 700 G. St. and check out the vendors at the Fiber Festival.

i met some really nice people down there with really beautiful hand dyed fiber and yarn for really great prices.
there are booths with other trinkets (spindles, stitch markers, buttons) and hand sewn items as well. on exhibit are some very beautiful and interesting garments, quilts, and art pieces.

this event was very poorly advertised, and i was lucky to remember it at the last minute. it will be open until 5pm this evening— so hurry!

i will post my finds shortly.

’til then…

Tagged: costumes, fiber, fiber festival, hand dyed, knitting, quilting, sewing, yarn

all wound up.

nowhereslow — Sun, 28 Feb 2010 02:50:28 +0000

today i went through some of my stash and re-wound a lot of my scraps and balls of yarn.

i realized that i have way too much yarn and unfinished projects. i will be spinning and knitting more before i buy more yarn (i’ll at least try!).

i have yarn here:

here:

and here:

and more in my closet in the bedroom… i don’t have nearly as much as other people, but it’s still a lot of unused yarn!

i finished this:

but still have to weave in ends and block it.

sorry, i had to change the header on my page. i love the picture i had up, but it’s so blurry. let me know what you think. i know i will be tempted to put the other one back up, but i will fix it first!

please check out my etsy page for new items in the near future! i have also reduced the prices of my yarn!

’til then…

Tagged: ball winder, knitting, owl vest, yarn

ugh.

nowhereslow — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 04:34:37 +0000

so i was talking to my mom today on the phone while i put in the hat from yesterdays post to felt. and i overfelted it. not by much, but it’s definitely not what i wanted it to do. and it’s ribbed on the bottom, which gives it the fisherman effect. not happy. it still looks cool, but i liked how it looked yesterday. wah.

so i started another one, but it’s going to have more gold because i’m running out of my green. and its smaller.

i also felted these last night:

see this post to see how huge they were before.

and the koolaid scarf:

i’m holding the yarn double so it will be thicker.

and a picture of nootka a.k.a. tootka (she has the worst gas) a.k.a. nooty pants and her friend. i took this of her over new years weekend (the only picture i managed to take since we discovered the sd card was left in the computer) and think it’s hilarious.

’til then…

Tagged: crochet, dogs, felting, hats, knitting, koolaid dyeing, slippers

saturday.

nowhereslow — Sun, 10 Jan 2010 07:51:52 +0000

i finally finished the scarf at friday night knitting.

and started this:

and finished it:

look familiar? the green is my self-striping experiment yarn! see this post.

it was awesome to knit up- the handspun was so light and slippery. i didn’t want the gold to overpower the green so i only purled one row of it. it needs to be felted down a little since it doesn’t fit even me. i have a small head, but i think celia’s is probably even smaller – she’s teeny.

i hung out with stephanie last night and today. we went to far north yarn co. to further deplete my christmas credit and give sydney a little taste of the yarn store.

i have a few things cookin’. excited about starting a hat for buku – i never make him anything and always feel bad! i picked out some manly colors and will do a hat like the one above. the blue is for though.

one of my first posts was of this cardigan for sydney:

she was a big baby at birth and grew out of it so fast! she is 3 and a half months old.

on the bobbins:

nothing!

i took all of my yarn off today, except the unfinished one. i got 220 yards from the baby alpaca/bombyx. it’s gorgeous. i also unwound 165 yards of worsted superwash mixed with exotic sparkly angora. i have one more bobbin full that i will unwind tomorrow. i will post pictures when they are both dry.

i’m going to crochet this into a scarf today. it is the yarn that i dyed with koolaid a while back. it is so pretty and sparkly. i’m making it for my cousins daughter who is super cute and hopefully girly. this is really girly yarn!

’til then…

Tagged: baby alpaca, crochet, knitting, koolaid, silk, spinning

FOs.

nowhereslow — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 00:44:05 +0000

for knitters, this means finished objects. some knitters make only socks, or only lace, and some stick to simple scarves or hats. i don’t really fit into any of these categories. i like to make things with a pattern since i get bored easily. most of the stuff I make is for gifts, so I tend to knit whatever i think that particular person will like. and being in my late 20s, i have many friends increasing the size of their family – so i’ve been knitting a lot of baby stuff – which i enjoy, since everything is really cute, soft and small, and sometimes i even think, ‘maybe i should stash this for my future child.’

most of the links below are to the ravelry site where you can print/buy/view the pattern – i believe you have to be a member to access these. i will try to add links to weird words for the non-knitters who may be reading this.

below is a cardigan i made for one of my bffs who is having a little girl any day now.

and i made these for her most deserving mother:

i started the socks this last winter while living aboard our boat in the Caribbean. i started them on a bamboo circular using the magic loop method. it is so humid and sweaty there that wood needles tend to be sticky, so one broke. the Caribbean is very limited in knitting needle stock (i can’t imagine why?) so i waited until i returned to the states and finally finished them out at ‘degnarly’ – our friends remote cabin.

I made this baby poncho for a friend of mine who had a girl this summer. His last name is Luck.

since i have been totally procrastinating on buku’s sweater – and NO i’m not afraid of the ‘boyfriend sweater’ curse – i crocheted and felted him some loafer slippers. i have yet to make myself a pair.

and below is another baby poncho. i just found out today that they want to feature it on the pattern page on ravelry. Trust me, it’s not because of the poncho ( the link is for the pattern on the lion brand yarn page, not the ravelry link), it’s because my cousins daughter is the cutest baby on the planet!

that’s all for now. i have many more that i want to share, but this is all the blogging i can handle for today.

Tagged: baby, denali, knitting