It also gave me a chance to use the impulse buy pyrography tool at long last!
Showing posts with label yarn. Show all posts
Showing posts with label yarn. Show all posts
Saturday, May 07, 2016
Yarn Pegs
I do like a bandwagon on occasion and after my recent Stylecraft stash enhancement i thought i would have a go at my own yarn pegs.
It also gave me a chance to use the impulse buy pyrography tool at long last!
It also gave me a chance to use the impulse buy pyrography tool at long last!
Monday, January 24, 2011
Sandown Stitch and Craft
Lisa and i went for a little day out to the Stitch and Craft show at Sandown Racecourse again this year. Well, it's a yearly ritual now ;o)
I was nearly ever-so-good and didn't buy any wool but i did buy this yarn ;o)
It's made from the selvedge of t-shirt material that used to be destroyed but someone realised it's potential and turned it into yarn!
The black/peachy mix is to make a shopping bag for Lisa, the lilac is to make something for my bedroom, i'm not sure what yet, either storage box/basket things or maybe a little shower mat.
I was nearly ever-so-good and didn't buy any wool but i did buy this yarn ;o)
It's made from the selvedge of t-shirt material that used to be destroyed but someone realised it's potential and turned it into yarn!
The black/peachy mix is to make a shopping bag for Lisa, the lilac is to make something for my bedroom, i'm not sure what yet, either storage box/basket things or maybe a little shower mat.
This lovely pink is to make hot pads for the kitchen and possibly a tea cosy :oD
When it's stretched open it's about an inch wide but it has a natural "curl" that make it thinner but bulkier.
I'm really looking forward to playing with it :oD
Tuesday, June 05, 2007
Winnings!
Over on CT'nY various people hold auctions to raise money for charidddddeeeeeee ;o)
Well, Piglottie is currently raising money on behalf of her friend Piglottie's Parlour: Sticky: Charity Card Sales">Charlotte who is going to Peru and needs to raise £5,000! Check out the post all about it on PL's blog for proper information ;o)
Annnnnnnnnyway, Bob offered for auction a skein of Fyberspates February club yarn along with a pattern for hearty patterned socks and a pair of HANDMADE silver earrings from Blossom. And...
I WON!! YAY! Blossom brought the earrings with her on Saturday and the yarn arrived from Bob this morning :o)
Here is a detailed shot of the earrings, they really are beautiful, i heard a rumour she might be making some shawl pins and other jewellery items in the future, i hope it's true!! What a lucky girlie i am :oD
Saturday, May 12, 2007
Plodding on
with the Gypsy Girl socks.
Although the short row heel is really easy to work and avoids the need for picking up gusset stitches and doing decreases and all that jazz i still don't like it's fit! I decided after i finished the first sock that i'd carry on and do the second one the same and i'm a third of the way through the foot now. I put my knitting down at one point and when i went back to it there was a needle missing, so i hunted round and couldn't find it, i stood up to check under the cushions and there it was, bum shaped! I've managed to bend it more or less back to straight and it actually feels a bit more comfortable for having a curve in it :oD
We ate dinner late last night and it's all the fault of one lady! Natalie at The Yarn Yard was putting some new merino yarns in her shop, but she had only one or two skeins of each. So from about 5pm onwards (she might have been early, you never know *lol*) there i was, refreshing the page and waiting for them to appear! It was SO much fun, i was putting skeins in my basket, taking them out, swapping them round... it was so hard to choose just three but i managed it - just! AND! I wasn't the only one, i was joined by a few members of the Crafty Forum, we were all posting on the forum at the same time, it was so funny :oD
I just wish i'd saved the images of the yarns, the colourways she had created look SO good! She's a very talented temptress, that n! :oD Her merino sock club starts soon, it might even be today and i must decide whether i am in or out! If i'm in then i am out of the regular yarn club! OH! I hate making decisions! What to do, what to do! :oD
Although the short row heel is really easy to work and avoids the need for picking up gusset stitches and doing decreases and all that jazz i still don't like it's fit! I decided after i finished the first sock that i'd carry on and do the second one the same and i'm a third of the way through the foot now. I put my knitting down at one point and when i went back to it there was a needle missing, so i hunted round and couldn't find it, i stood up to check under the cushions and there it was, bum shaped! I've managed to bend it more or less back to straight and it actually feels a bit more comfortable for having a curve in it :oD
We ate dinner late last night and it's all the fault of one lady! Natalie at The Yarn Yard was putting some new merino yarns in her shop, but she had only one or two skeins of each. So from about 5pm onwards (she might have been early, you never know *lol*) there i was, refreshing the page and waiting for them to appear! It was SO much fun, i was putting skeins in my basket, taking them out, swapping them round... it was so hard to choose just three but i managed it - just! AND! I wasn't the only one, i was joined by a few members of the Crafty Forum, we were all posting on the forum at the same time, it was so funny :oD
I just wish i'd saved the images of the yarns, the colourways she had created look SO good! She's a very talented temptress, that n! :oD Her merino sock club starts soon, it might even be today and i must decide whether i am in or out! If i'm in then i am out of the regular yarn club! OH! I hate making decisions! What to do, what to do! :oD
Thursday, February 01, 2007
"The Yarn Yard" yarn stash!
Erm... Yeah *blush*
From top left clockwise: Toffee - Bushcraft - Pink Ribbon - December club yarn - January club yarn - Summer Tennis - Pink Goth - Very Pink
I've called the December club yarn "Mulled Wine" because that's what it reminds me of, it's a lot richer than the picture shows, there's a miniskein of nearly solid "Mulberry" with it too.
The January yarn has to be called "Bluetit" and it's got a little mini-skein of "Forget-me-Not"
All yarns came from "The Yarn Yard" - www.theyarnyard.co.uk and are dyed by the VERY talented Natalie
From top left clockwise: Toffee - Bushcraft - Pink Ribbon - December club yarn - January club yarn - Summer Tennis - Pink Goth - Very Pink
I've called the December club yarn "Mulled Wine" because that's what it reminds me of, it's a lot richer than the picture shows, there's a miniskein of nearly solid "Mulberry" with it too.
The January yarn has to be called "Bluetit" and it's got a little mini-skein of "Forget-me-Not"
All yarns came from "The Yarn Yard" - www.theyarnyard.co.uk and are dyed by the VERY talented Natalie
Monday, November 13, 2006
Oh... My... Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaawd!!
Yeah, sposed to be said in the sylee of Janice from Friends *lol*
Annnnnnnnnnnyway! The reason for my outburst is the fantabulous things that have happened to me today!
Firstly, the postie came and he had a small package for me... from the States! From none other than Ms Jeanie Townsend herself! I was so excited i didn't even take piccies i just ripped the paper off and tore the box open (carefully so i can re-use it ;o) ) and what did i find inside? Go on guess!
I found... THIS!
Have you guessed what it is yet?
It's a skein of oh-so-soft cotton Sockotta in a wild medley of bright circussy colours, quite wonderful just on it's own, but wait! What's that nesteled up next to it? Could it be... a skein of... Socks That Rock?? No, nobody could be that generous surely? But, yes, that is exactly what it is!! It's the colourway "Azurite" and is a gorgeous mix of purple and grey and it's very "me" thankyou again Jeanie, you're a star *hugs*
I am sooooooo thrilled with it, and Jeanie only sent it as a surprise, nothing more than that. What a lovely lady, i onlyhope she is half as happy with her little parcel as i am with mine, although i doubt it very much as mine is very small in comparison!
So, after the excitement of the postie, i went off to visit the chiropractor for another session which was awful and painful and pleasedon'tmakemegoagain! I had my usual Monday afternoon wander down to my LYS to recover before i drove home. I finished off a couple of "knit a river" squares and had a good old chinwag. It was lovely, Lisa is such a nice lady, how many other shop owners would let someone sit in their shop playing with their goods for hours on end, distracting them from their business and not buying anything?? Mind you, i did provide her with cake ;o)
So, we're chatting about this and that and conversation got around to my lovely skein of STR and we were talking about yarns we'd seen online but not had the opportunity to see "in real life" and i said "i'd love to see some Noro" at which point she ducked round the back. I could hear her rummaging around and then she came back out with a box... a black box... with gold writing on the side... and then she said "you can take one of these home with you" and then she opened the box and then i lost the ability to say anything but "ooooooooooh" and then i touched some and then i said "oh, it's not as soft as i thought it'd be" *lol* she said that everyone says that, she grabbed a skein of lovely muted browns and beiges and said that was her one, but i could have any one i wanted. For. Free! I'm feeling really down today what with the bad back, being bashed up at the Chiropractor and developing this cold on top of everything that's happened over the past couple of weeks, i nearly cried! I am now sitting here alternately petting my skein of STR and my skein of Kochoran #12 that i picked out. It wants to be a hat i think, the angora would trouble me with it's soft tickly bits, but it'd be lovely and warm as a hat and the colours are absolutely gooooooorgeous! See!
Alls i gotta do now is find a "one skein" pattern for a nice hat. I guess i could do one myself, and if i work it from the top down i can keep going til i run out of yarn but i don't want to poop it up and i just know i would cos i am like that! So, what shall i do with them all? I think the STR wants to be a shawl, the Sockotta wants to be socks and the Kochoran wants to be a hat, pattern recommendations anyone?
Annnnnnnnnnnyway! The reason for my outburst is the fantabulous things that have happened to me today!
Firstly, the postie came and he had a small package for me... from the States! From none other than Ms Jeanie Townsend herself! I was so excited i didn't even take piccies i just ripped the paper off and tore the box open (carefully so i can re-use it ;o) ) and what did i find inside? Go on guess!
I found... THIS!
Have you guessed what it is yet?
So, after the excitement of the postie, i went off to visit the chiropractor for another session which was awful and painful and pleasedon'tmakemegoagain! I had my usual Monday afternoon wander down to my LYS to recover before i drove home. I finished off a couple of "knit a river" squares and had a good old chinwag. It was lovely, Lisa is such a nice lady, how many other shop owners would let someone sit in their shop playing with their goods for hours on end, distracting them from their business and not buying anything?? Mind you, i did provide her with cake ;o)
So, we're chatting about this and that and conversation got around to my lovely skein of STR and we were talking about yarns we'd seen online but not had the opportunity to see "in real life" and i said "i'd love to see some Noro" at which point she ducked round the back. I could hear her rummaging around and then she came back out with a box... a black box... with gold writing on the side... and then she said "you can take one of these home with you" and then she opened the box and then i lost the ability to say anything but "ooooooooooh" and then i touched some and then i said "oh, it's not as soft as i thought it'd be" *lol* she said that everyone says that, she grabbed a skein of lovely muted browns and beiges and said that was her one, but i could have any one i wanted. For. Free! I'm feeling really down today what with the bad back, being bashed up at the Chiropractor and developing this cold on top of everything that's happened over the past couple of weeks, i nearly cried! I am now sitting here alternately petting my skein of STR and my skein of Kochoran #12 that i picked out. It wants to be a hat i think, the angora would trouble me with it's soft tickly bits, but it'd be lovely and warm as a hat and the colours are absolutely gooooooorgeous! See!
Alls i gotta do now is find a "one skein" pattern for a nice hat. I guess i could do one myself, and if i work it from the top down i can keep going til i run out of yarn but i don't want to poop it up and i just know i would cos i am like that! So, what shall i do with them all? I think the STR wants to be a shawl, the Sockotta wants to be socks and the Kochoran wants to be a hat, pattern recommendations anyone?
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