I’m Knitting As Fast As I Can

KOIA (who, BTW, hasn’t blogged since the summer of 2009), added a post to my Facebook wall last week asking why I haven’t updated the blog in a while.  Well, I have a nice bullet list, complete with photos, to explain why.

• I was in Denver for a week for work.

See, I have the shopping bags to prove it.

•  I turned around and went to California for 5 crazy days of Disneyland and cheer competition.

•  While I was in California, I made the 54-mile, 5-hour round trip to LA from Anaheim to visit my son who attends college in LA. As an added bonus, I got a free golf lesson.

•  I made three shop samples for the LYS where I teach classes.

•  I wrote up the pattern for the sock-weight version of Fog Lifter and knit another sample.  So the Bambino sample joins her ShibuiKnits sister.  Watch for the pattern next week.

•  I’ve been diligently (not) working on writing up the pattern for another scarf that I first knit last summer!  Yikes.  It made a brief appearance at Sock Summit and hasn’t been heard from since.  I think it’s time to revive it. What do you think?

•  And I’m working on a super secret project that I can only show you a peek of.

If I tell you more, I’ll have to kill you.

My crocheted Red Scarf is done and, you know what?  I like it!  Trust me, I would never send a scarf off to OFA unless it was something I’d wear myself.

Yarn: Cascade Ecological Wool
Hook: K (6.5mm)
Pattern: Work a 155-stitch chain foundation. Working back and forth lengthwise, sc in the back loop only until it’s wide enough.
Ravelry: Link to project page.

I soaked it in some Eucalan and then blocked it out to the finished measurements of 7″ x 70″

The stitch pattern reminds me of The Corrugator scarf.

I just need to make a tag, attach a fast-food gift card, and send it on it’s way. yay!

It’s been bitterly cold here the last few days. So cold, in fact, that my daughter actually asked if I had some mittens she could wear while driving to school.

More than two years ago, I made a pair of Mitered Mittens from yarn I dyed with tumeric. In September 2007, I blogged that they just needed the ends woven in. Guess what? December 2009 and I still hadn’t woven in the ends. They’ve been sitting on a corner of my desk FOR.TWO.YEARS!

Well, the ends are woven in now.  But when I turned the mittens inside out, I discovered that tumeric is not light fast. 

Here’s a post showing what the yarn looked like after it was dyed.

And here’s a post with a photo of the in-progress mitten.

Here’s what the mittens look like now:

Aaah, the power of the sun.

Desperate times . . . .

Call for desperate measures . . .