Knitting on the Rogue River

Thank you to all for your comments about my brother. There are no guarantees in this life and I only wished he had lived his life differently. Enough said on that. Here we are on New Year’s Eve. It was the perfect evening for us, we were home by 10:30. In my long absense from [...]

This is the end of the Spin to Knit Swap. It would be fun to see what everyone received from the swap and to see what was done with the yarn we all received. Here’s what my secret pal sent for round one, 91 yards of two ply linen. It’s enough to do a washcloth [...]

Here are a couple of samples I knit with the black corriedale and some BFL from another project. Now I want to knit something using these two yarns and this technique at a smaller weight than I have spun up. *Massive sigh* But no, I must use self control and finish the sweater for hubby [...]

I think I’ve finally spun enough of the BFL for this project. There’s still ~200 grams of dyed roving to spin but I’m hoping to spin that for another project. This is the first time I’ve measured and weighed everything before dyeing and spinning. All of the skeins of BFL weigh between 100-105 grams. The [...]

If you’re in need of a last minute gift for a friend or relative with long hair then I highly recommend Calorimetry from knitty.com with a couple of alterations. The first one I knit was huge, 120 stitches is just too many stitches for worsted weight yarn. Frogged this one. Before giving up or re-engineering [...]

More spinning and dyeing for the De Colores sweater. I dyed four 100 gram pieces of BFL for the sweater on Sunday and now have enough. All that’s left is to spin it up along with the rest of Jordan’s fleece. This is 200 grams of Merino that I’ve had for a few years. Another [...]

Done in by the dastardly Techno Knitter. But I’m resting very comfortably. Knit on all you valiant warriors, may the fastest knitter win the prize! Click here to view the socks before their transformation.

Way back when I posted about a sweater that I was knitting – De Colores by Ginger Luter. Well, that sweater didn’t get any further than that post. While I’ve bagged that particular incarnation of the sweater (I was afraid I would look like a giant box of crayons) the project itself has had new [...]

Dyed all of this on Sunday. Looks like a circus doesn’t it. What you can’t see is the rest of Jordan’s fleece drying under this kaleidoscope of color. Wonder what this will look like spun up?

I got home Friday night and am just now feeling like posting. What a day! We left Salt Lake City in the morning in the rain trying to beat the snow that was predicted. Later in Nevada the wind was a problem for S. I don’t remember what time it was when we finally arrived [...]