Disney rain gear

The airport

Sock wars: all done!

The madhouse that is Sock Wars

Sock Wars: One down, one to go!

Sock wars

6" on first sock completed.

Fetching completed

They're done. The yarn was dyed naturally with elderberries in the woods. It was handspun (by me) as a two ply. The wool is BFL superwash, so they should hold up nicely.

Sock wars gauge

I hit gauge using size zero needles.

Fetching

Am starting over. With the small size of my yarn, they pulled a little too much. So I'll add three repeats and about 20-30 rows. I'm also going a k2tog, yo row and then 5 knit rows instead of a picot cast off.

My homemade nostepinne

Made from a wooden knitting needle I got from the 2nd hand store.

The haul from work

Although we were not exchanging gifts, one of my staff brought them for everyone.

I've decided I like resin

Here is my newest necklace in progress. The outside ring is a computer part, the inside rings are aluminum knitting needles who sacrificed their lives for me.


And here is the finished necklace.

Traveling woman

Cabbage ramen on a winter's day

Only 90 calories

Our new coffee maker!

Types of fiber I'm interested in

Ecospun (plastic bottles)
Ingeo (corn)
Tencel (wood pulp)
Seacell (wood/seaweed)
There are two types of seacell, pure and active. Active contains silver in the fiber.
Sasawashi (paper and a japanese herb)
Silver
Soy silk (tofu byproduct)
Faux cashmere (nylon)
Bamboo

I smell pork

Misnomer?

How was it determined that soysilk, faux cashmere and faux angora are vegetarian or vegan? I don't know anyone that eats wool. In fact, wool is a renewable resource and considered "green". Hmmmmm.

The tacky wobbling tree

Traveling Woman Shawl

The start to my Traveling Woman shawl. Its being knitted in my handspun, navajo plyed BFL I bought at Canby 2 years ago. I split the colors up and spun each, one at a time, so that I would get a rainbow effect.