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Saturday’s Survey 03/13

debra — Sun, 14 Mar 2010 04:06:27 +0000

I had a busy week on the crafting home-front. I finished up cloth diapers for Boo. He now has 25 homemade ones and 6 purchased ones. I’m using the purchased ones for overnight as they seem a bit more absorbent. I may make more, I need to get the too-small diapers out of rotation and have two or three days at home to evaluate the quantity. I have plenty of fabric to make conservatively 15-20 more. I can’t see needing anywhere near that many. I’d like to save the fabric to make smaller or larger sizes in the event we need other sizes. The ones I made have hook and loop closures so that it grows with Boo, hopefully to as big as he needs.

I won a contest from The Counting Sheep Farm. I get a surprise box along with some superwash fiber I ordered. I’ve been participating in a stash down contest. Please don’t ask why I am buying more fiber while I am stashing down, I just am. I wanted some sock yarn and I don’t want to spin wool that I have to hand wash, so I saw she had some superwash on sale. The only contest is to challenge ourselves to knit/spin from the stash. We earn points that we can redeem in the store for a percentage of one item or several depending on the number of points we redeem. I added points this week by wrestling with my works in progress. Along the way Rachel, of Counting Sheep, offers mini-contests where we can earn coolie prizes. Stay tuned for pictures of what’s in my goodie box. To participate in the stash down for points and win any contests you must be a member of Ravelry and join the group for Counting Sheep Farm.

I finished a dishcloth that had been on the needles because I ran out of yarn. I finally found the yarn and reunited it with the dishcloth. I’ve made a bunch of these garterlac dishcloths. Feel free to search the archives for more. It’s a neat looking dishcloth that let’s one practice enterlac easily without fear of messing up “good” yarn.

I also finished my first handspun project, a hedgehog. I spin the brown belly and creamy paws. There is actually one strand of homespun brown knit with one strand of fun fur, but it’s difficult to see in the pictures. There are no eyes or nose because Boo is too small to have those pieces on his toys. He seems to like to grab at the fun fur, much the same as he grabs at the furbabies in the house. At least with the hedgehog he’s not hurting anyone.

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First FO of 2010

debra — Tue, 12 Jan 2010 03:56:04 +0000

Here are my first finished objects of 2010. I’ve been busy trying to finish knitting projects. My Cozy shawl from Knitty is finally finished after repeated ripping out and reknitting. The last time I ripped it out was the weekend Boo was born. To use up the scraps I knit a Tribble dishcloth. They look more neat with variegated yarn, but it used up the small ball I had left at the end.

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debra — Thu, 13 Mar 2008 05:37:17 +0000

I finished and delivered Josh’s scarf as previously mentioned. I managed to find a model willing to participate in the photographing of it before it went to its new home.

After that, I wanted a challenge. A few months ago I picked up a free pattern sitting near the cottons at City Knitting for a dishcloth. It seemed to me that it would be a good way to practice entralac, a zig-zag style of knitting, for lack of a better comparison. I cast on several times for the Garterlac Dishcloth and frogged to the point of exhaustion the last few months. This weekend I had a knitting date with a nice woman from church. She was working on an afghan block and I tried my hand at the dishcloth. I finally asked her about a stitch, I couldn’t figure out what to do with the yarn doing it continental style. She was a big help and now I have three finished and a fourth cast on for completion this weekend or next week sometime. The third one is not pictured yet. I decided to take step-by-step pictures of it and put it up here eventually. I found a woman who did the same and put them on flickr, which was a huge help to me. I would start the new square or triangle and forget which way I was supposed to knit, then end up with the yarn trapped away from the stitches. Thanks to the pictures I found, I’m clear as mud on the order now.

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