It’s too early to post Friday funnies, but I needed a good laugh this week. This has nothing to do with fiber craft, but… I saw this last week at a friends house and I nearly died laughing at the part that is about 2 1/2 minutes into the video. Poor little kitties. There’s one [...]
Entries from January 2009
January 28, 2009
Knitted Brain
What a way to remember all the parts of the brain!
http://schoolofeverything.com/blog/knitting-brain
January 23, 2009
Crochet isn’t just for Granny anymore
Edit 1/25/09 – Please note I linked to the wrong pattern book for the Dusty Miller sweater pictured above. The correct book is Crochet Aran Sweaters by the same author. Sadly it looks like Amazon doesn’t have this book. It may be out of print.
Let me confess here. I once had a very low opinion [...]
January 20, 2009
Say it isn’t so… Rmmmrghph!
Keanu to Play Spike Spiegel from Cowboy Bebop
Isn’t Keanu Reeves a bit too old to be playing Spike Spiegel, the bounty hunter? Rggggh~@#!!! Okay, so here I’ll admit that I once had a cartoon crush on Spike from Cowboy Bebop. After him came Jin from Samurai Champloo. It’s not just sacrilege to cast Reeves… it’s [...]
January 20, 2009
Scratch that… no, unravel it
In the previous post I mentioned that I would dye machine knit blanks of my cotton yarn, assuming that I would knit all of these up in the handy knitting machine I bought for making hats and things. I tried making a long blank with three 109 yard skeins of cotton and discovered that this [...]
January 18, 2009
Experiment #3: Planning a colorway
Dyeing cotton fibers is such a pain. Not only do I want to make sure that the pain is worth it, I want to make sure I get it right the first time. Not to mention, I’ll be using my precious Artfibers cotton (Rush), and I really don’t want to over-dye any of this stuff.
I’ve [...]
January 16, 2009
Friday Funny: Abe Lincoln Talks to His Press Agent
Now that we’re looking forward to Inauguration Day… I thought I’d share one of my favorite comedy bits from Bob Newhart, one of my all time favorite comedians.
Abe Lincoln talks to his press agent:
January 16, 2009
Dyeing in History
This is one of my favorite shows… The Worst Jobs in History with Tony Robinson aka. I-have-a-cunning-plan S. Baldrick from the Blackadder series. I’m sharing the few bits from this show that describe old and ancient dyeing techniques.
Purple makers using rotten shellfish to make ‘royal purple.’
Dyeing blue with Wode
Part I (Part [...]
January 13, 2009
Needed some color to brighten up my winter
Hopefully we’ve seen the last of the snow for now. Hopefully.
I meant to post more photos from the dye work I did in December. I finally got around to snapping pictures of the more of the skeins of yarn I dyed. Here they are for your viewing pleasure.
Note, I’ve discovered the fine art of squeezing [...]
January 8, 2009
See how lame I am…
I don’t bother putting up before the holidays photos until well into January. Yeah, like big news guys… we did get 19 inches of snow (I’m being sarcastic). I don’t have a lot of time now so I’ll just write brief captions with the photos. Less is more right?
Lady cross-country skiing down Interstate Boulevard. I [...]
