I don't have too much to say today!
Tonight is the Golden Globes and I'm sitting in the gameroom with my mother, grandmother, and aunt listening to them watch the end. They're being very loud and my mom is doing a lot of giggling, which is probably good for her. My aunt is wearing my mom's sweater and plastic Mardi Gras beads, while her voice alternates between very shrill and very calm. My grandmother is quiet and happy as usual. (I keep pausing to admire pretty people and enjoy the fact that I know a lot of their names.)
I'm staying with my aunt tonight as well because my grandmother is staying in my room another night. Thanks to the Golden Globes we have a bunch of movies to watch, so we'll probably watch one tonight and another tomorrow. (Aunt is squealing.) It'll give me time to work on her sprites. Have I shown you her sprites? Here.
Sunday, January 11, 2015
2014 In Spinning (And Dyeing)
This one's coming in a little late and I apologize, but it's been sort of a long day. I'm actually sitting in the living room of my aunt's house watching Mulan (which we just realized is about gender dysphoria and explicitly mentions cross-dressing and drag shows!) and we haven't gone to bed yet so it counts for today -- er, yesterday.
Anyway. The last part of my review for the last year is in spinning and dyeing, which are usually pretty similar. In fact there's only two exceptions where I dyed yarn (one for me; one for someone else).
Shall we get started?
Falling Ungulates
This was the dyeing part...
And here's the spinning!
This was all done in February for the Ravellenic Games. I named it Falling Ungulates because of the events it was for -- Flying Camel Spin and Downhill Dyeing. I knit it up as well, but the pattern wasn't working. You may recall the hat from the knitting wrap-up. That's this stuff.
Anyway. The last part of my review for the last year is in spinning and dyeing, which are usually pretty similar. In fact there's only two exceptions where I dyed yarn (one for me; one for someone else).
Shall we get started?
Falling Ungulates
This was the dyeing part...
And here's the spinning!
This was all done in February for the Ravellenic Games. I named it Falling Ungulates because of the events it was for -- Flying Camel Spin and Downhill Dyeing. I knit it up as well, but the pattern wasn't working. You may recall the hat from the knitting wrap-up. That's this stuff.
Friday, January 9, 2015
2014 In Crochet
This is Part Two of my new annual project roundup. Today is crochet projects! If you'd like to see the seven projects I knitted in 2014 (the ones I recorded in Ravelry), you can find that here. I'm hoping to put up a third post for dyeing and spinning soon, so stay tuned for that one. With that, let's get to the crochet!
I finished five crochet projects in 2014 (again, only projects I actually recorded on Ravelry count). All of them, amusingly, were blankets. They ranged in size from 27" square to nearly twin-bed sized, and were given to everyone from church acquaintances to my own family. Three were baby blankets, one was a birthday gift, and one was a graduation present.
Granny Ripple
Finished in April 2014, just over a month before the baby was due. This is essentially the third in a series done for three of my cousins, all brothers. The first was granny squares (my first big crochet project ever, in fact), for the middle boy when he was born. The second I made two years later for the oldest, in rows of granny clusters. This one was for the youngest, and I combined squares and rows to make something I really loved. The border ripples a bit, but I don't mind. The order of the squares was very carefully chosen, but the order of the stripes was random (I used four playing cards and assigned a color to each card. That meant I had to use them all once before using any again, but I could still end up with two red ones in a row). It created some very interesting patterns!
The Zoomies
I finished five crochet projects in 2014 (again, only projects I actually recorded on Ravelry count). All of them, amusingly, were blankets. They ranged in size from 27" square to nearly twin-bed sized, and were given to everyone from church acquaintances to my own family. Three were baby blankets, one was a birthday gift, and one was a graduation present.
Granny Ripple
Finished in April 2014, just over a month before the baby was due. This is essentially the third in a series done for three of my cousins, all brothers. The first was granny squares (my first big crochet project ever, in fact), for the middle boy when he was born. The second I made two years later for the oldest, in rows of granny clusters. This one was for the youngest, and I combined squares and rows to make something I really loved. The border ripples a bit, but I don't mind. The order of the squares was very carefully chosen, but the order of the stripes was random (I used four playing cards and assigned a color to each card. That meant I had to use them all once before using any again, but I could still end up with two red ones in a row). It created some very interesting patterns!
The Zoomies
Thursday, January 8, 2015
2014 In Knitting
I think I'm going to start doing a yearly review of my crafting accomplishments. Because I've taken up so many different crafts, I'll probably split it up into pieces. This year we're likely going to do knitting, crochet, and spinning.
So today we're going to talk about what I accomplished in knitting. (At least according to Ravelry. Anything not on Ravelry doesn't count because I don't remember any of it.)
I knitted seven projects in 2014. These were projects for me and for other people. Big ones and little ones. Fingering weight and worsted weight. Garter stitch and lace. It's a wide range and really makes me proud.
Colorwork Teddy
I started this one in August 2013 and finished it in February 2014. I'm so happy I actually got it to work, because I had tried doing alternating stripes of brown and rainbow and it just wasn't... working. This is just white worsted yarn and rainbow thread held together. It was a birthday gift for my boyfriend's younger brother, following my tradition of giving people a teddy bear for their fifteenth birthday. He actually turned sixteen though, so I was a bit late. I expected him to just hide it away somewhere, but as soon as I handed it to him he figured out how to balance it on his lamp. I don't know if it's still there, but the fact that it was put up at all made me very pleased.
Irish Roots Socks
This was one of my projects for the 2014 Ravellenic Games, so February. I used a toe-up recipe and added two small cables to the top of each foot. The light green I hand-dyed as a tonal (which was fun but a challenge) and the darker green was a hand-dyed yarn I picked up on a trip to New Braunfels, which was great fun. (I had used the rest for a shawl in 2013).
Golden Roses For Christmas
At Christmas 2013 my boyfriend's family gave me a gift card to the local yarn store. It wasn't until May that I went to use it, because the store was closing! I picked up this lovely laceweight yarn in a cashmere/silk blend (with a bit of merino wool). It was the only skein left so I was sort of stuck with the pink color. I added a container of gold beads and this is what came out. It took me just over two weeks, mostly because I was recovering from wisdom tooth removal and all I was doing was watching Netflix and knitting lace (I didn't take anything stronger than ibuprofen, so I made no more errors than normal).
A Gentle Jab
There's actually a blog post associated with this one somewhere. I made this in an evening in June to add to my boyfriend's graduation present, which was a small set of good-quality kitchen tools (my mother sells the stuff). Apparently over the course of the semester he used everything we gave him except this -- because his roommate washes the dishes!
Wibbley Wobbly Timey Wimey
So today we're going to talk about what I accomplished in knitting. (At least according to Ravelry. Anything not on Ravelry doesn't count because I don't remember any of it.)
I knitted seven projects in 2014. These were projects for me and for other people. Big ones and little ones. Fingering weight and worsted weight. Garter stitch and lace. It's a wide range and really makes me proud.
Colorwork Teddy
I started this one in August 2013 and finished it in February 2014. I'm so happy I actually got it to work, because I had tried doing alternating stripes of brown and rainbow and it just wasn't... working. This is just white worsted yarn and rainbow thread held together. It was a birthday gift for my boyfriend's younger brother, following my tradition of giving people a teddy bear for their fifteenth birthday. He actually turned sixteen though, so I was a bit late. I expected him to just hide it away somewhere, but as soon as I handed it to him he figured out how to balance it on his lamp. I don't know if it's still there, but the fact that it was put up at all made me very pleased.
Irish Roots Socks
This was one of my projects for the 2014 Ravellenic Games, so February. I used a toe-up recipe and added two small cables to the top of each foot. The light green I hand-dyed as a tonal (which was fun but a challenge) and the darker green was a hand-dyed yarn I picked up on a trip to New Braunfels, which was great fun. (I had used the rest for a shawl in 2013).
Golden Roses For Christmas
At Christmas 2013 my boyfriend's family gave me a gift card to the local yarn store. It wasn't until May that I went to use it, because the store was closing! I picked up this lovely laceweight yarn in a cashmere/silk blend (with a bit of merino wool). It was the only skein left so I was sort of stuck with the pink color. I added a container of gold beads and this is what came out. It took me just over two weeks, mostly because I was recovering from wisdom tooth removal and all I was doing was watching Netflix and knitting lace (I didn't take anything stronger than ibuprofen, so I made no more errors than normal).
A Gentle Jab
There's actually a blog post associated with this one somewhere. I made this in an evening in June to add to my boyfriend's graduation present, which was a small set of good-quality kitchen tools (my mother sells the stuff). Apparently over the course of the semester he used everything we gave him except this -- because his roommate washes the dishes!
Wibbley Wobbly Timey Wimey
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