The image above ( Lily Chin designed lace crochet dress found in the first issue of Interweave Crochet – 2004 under “Lace Dress”) and many others inspires me to learn and make more crochet garments that are fashionable and practical. I will always be a knitter, but in the past two years I’ve developed a [...]
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July 20, 2009
I’m full. I can’t possibly knit anymore
No, not really. I could actually keep knitting.
Yesterday I hosted a Yarntasting party in Overlook Park.
At least over twenty people showed up from the invitee list. It was such great fun!!!! Surprisingly, it was a bit chilly and windy early when we started but the sun eventually came out. Many people brought food and drink [...]
May 18, 2009
My Fiber Ed at the Knit and Crochet Show
I attended the Knit and Crochet Show this week and was fortunate enough to take two classes.
Fine shaping in crochet with Lily Chin. I recommend taking this class to anyone who has felt frustrated or limited with construction and design options in crochet. Lily’s excellent class helped open doorways to understanding how to shape garments [...]
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 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 [...]
August 18, 2008
Escaping the Heat
As I write this, the day after our beach trip, storm clouds are forming above us. So my pleas for relief have been heard. There’s something completely unnatural about living in a hot climate. But I suppose someone who grew up in the Arizona desert might beg to differ. The overly moisturized environment of the [...]
March 29, 2008
Weekend in San Francisco
I went to SF to attend a wedding, unfortunately, I drank some chai tea drink this morning that had bad milk in it. I spent a good part of the afternoon being ’sick.’ I don’t think I’ll ever be able to drink chai again. So I was too sick to attend the wedding, and I’m [...]
December 11, 2007
Electronic knitty
Check this out… I think it would be great to apply to a knitted garment just for fun…. hmmm my rusty wheels are spinning.
Lilly Pad Arudino Tutorial for Electronic Embellishments for Textile Projects
November 27, 2007
Am I dyslexic or just lazy? I can read charts but I can’t write them
I love Elizabeth Zimmerman’s writing, but sometimes I lament that she doesn’t make enough use of charts. There are times when the mathematician in myself would prefer to scan over visual charts instead of reading Zimmerman’s written pithy instructions. I’ve decided that it’s ironic because I myself would rather give verbal instructions when teaching [...]
