The Calm
So my life this week has consisted mainly of knitting and sitting in front of the TV. It has been a nice change from the 40 hour work week and the constant time with family (just kidding guys... but not about the work week).
Jack has been enjoying himself as well:
Also I've got some small knitting projects done over the summer. This is my most recent and I'm enjoying it throughly. It is a little tighter at the base than I'm used to but it definitely stays on better than most of my slouchy hats. After some fashion advice from my mother I've decided slouchy hats are probably my "thing". I'm actually starting a wall of them (I havee four hanging over my bed) and they are nice to make when you just have a skein.
Name: Star Crossed Cable Beret
Needles: 4 (Clover DPNS) and 8 (Clover Circ)
Yarn: Cascade 220 (less than a hank) Cordovan
Also, to throw some more pictures at you, this is what I'm currently attempting to spin. It is a 75%/25% merino/tussah silk blend and it is aptly called "Yellow". However, as you can see in the picture there are shots of blue and red running through it and it is so pretty to look at (and much more shiny than I could convey while still getting true to the color). The fiber is from Woodland Woolworks (I had a gift certificate). I luvs me some WW as it is the nearest fiber arts shop that sells spinning wheels. I got my Kromski Symphony there, used, about a year ago.
This is the start of my spinning of it. The first single, and it's DK-ish but very thick and thin. I'm not used to spinning silk and I'm still not a very even spinner, but I'm hoping after I ply this it will be around a worsted weight and I can get a nice hat or some house socks out of it. Also as it's spinning it is turning very barber pole. I really like it as it's hard to see all the color in the roving but the blue/yellow/red mix nicely together.
Tangled
This week I have been ignoring all responsibilities and not even looking at HTML code in favor of something more tactile. I've been crafting. I have a newfound love of cross stitch as it is the perfect counterpart to pixeling. In fact I'm currently pixeling some ideas for cross stitch patterns.
This is "Pocket Garden of 4-leaf Clover" from Stitchin'spiration. It's a freebie there and my first try at "blackwork", which basically means instead of those little x's i cross stitch I am just stitching lines. You can make some very cool geometric designs as you can see. I am only about a fifth of the way through the chart. Someday this design will become a bookmark, if I ever get back to Eugene and my sewing machine.
Website will be completed someday when I have access to my Windows tools (I'm still on the Linux laptop).