the likeness is amazing really

Boxing day

I spent this morning hanging out around multnomah village (or, if you are from around here "The Village".) I did some knitting at NorthWest wools, then I went to village coffee. I snagged a book from bookcrossing.com and I left Coyote Blue. I talked to a very interesting man about life, the outdoors and vitamin D. pretty much a good day all around.

New old yarn

This yarn is Jaeger matchmaker merino 4 ply. I dyed it with food coloring drops and now it is no longer light grey. I had way too much fun and now my fingernails are green. oops

more old things new pictures

Hat. I made it on the plane from Portland to Arizona. The pattern is from fiber trends, I think.

some old things, new pictures

Here is my good old friend, D.H. Lawrence. He was knitted in Massachusetts from a scanned and graphed photo, out of a silk yarn I bought in Seattle. Later, in New Hampshire, D.H. got a lining made from a cargo pocket of some old pants and a zipper, from an estate sale. Now, back home in Oregon, D.H. collects DPNs and cable needles. He has had kind of a hard life and is starting to show it.

Needle liberation month

The term is over, well it will be tomorrow after I take my pilates final. (I know right?) The satisfactory feeling of completion reminded me of the feeling of finishing a difficult knitting project. well, actually, I haven't finished a project in so long I sort of forgot how that feels. Which inspired me. As of yesterday, I decided, I will finish or frog every project that is in my closet, before starting anything else! The first thing off the needles was my Henry scarf, from Falls knitty, started in October, finished today. I am going to try to get everything done or destroyed by January 6th, the beginning of next term.

Here are photos of the finished baby sweater and my last new project for a while, Ilga's socks, from Interweaves Favorite Socks.

sink or swim...

Last week I bought a lb. of undyed merino roving at NW wools. It has sat, untouched in the bag, on my nightstand since then, purely because I have not had a moment to even think about starting to spin it. The end of the term is coming and I am realizing that this means a lot more work + preparing for finals. In addition to that I have started working a few extra shifts at the pool. Rargh. I have been thinking about moving into a tent in the backyard. I'm not really sure why, I feel like it would help me stay on top of things. I want to go back to the real woods! I don't like the city life!

Manly scarf!

ooooh manly. This scarf is blue but it looks more gray in the picture. It is cascade brand peruvian highland wool or something. The pattern is "Henry" from knitty, flipped sideways. I should really be writing the paper that is due tomorrow for my Writing 121 class but... this is so much more fun. The scarf is maybe 75% finished but I haven't worked on it in a week or two. I think I will try to finish it this week.

drop it drop it drop it like it's hot

Yesterday I almost missed the drop spindle class I signed up for at NorthWest Wools. I ended up working a little bit later than I thought I would and had to run there. I was 1 1/2 hours late, but I felt like I still learned a lot. I came home and spun and spun and spun and then plied the yarn I had spun. This morning I woke up and spun some more and I didn't drop the spindle once! I am wicked excited about maybe taking a spinning wheel spinning class next.

Mystery Blanket

My blanket! The squares are woven together. I keep knitting squares faster than I attach them and now there are squares hiding all over the house. I feel like if I really go searching and stick them together the blanket will be almost finished.

Monkey socks!

problem solved

look at the ickle schmoopykins! it's soo cuute

Baby sweater

Uh Oh! It's a little little baby sweater, for little baby arms and a little baby body and it's so tiny and it's so cuuute. I never knew my biological clock could tick so loudly.

this sweater will never be finished

It is just a sad sad fact. The colors are all from good ol Bear Brook State park, lichen and onions. The yarn is Jaeger Matchmaker. This not even half finished creation lives in the back of my closet. Maybe it will learn to knit its self.

socks oh socks

Gray socks for me

Gray socks for you!

Baudelaire on the left

Pomatomus on the right!

I love gray

a lot

Take two: Tiny chair

I was sitting on the floor, doing my math homework, innocently. I looked up to see a ball of chocolaty alpaca, staring at me. I'm not sure but I think it must have rolled out of the closet. I reached, and when my fingers touched it's sweet fuzzy bliss I knew. I needed to knit. to knit a tiny chair. I needed to knit it immediately. One and one half hours later I still sat, surrounded by math papers and scraps of yarn, and in my hand was a perfect, adorable, useless chair.
I don't really understand what happened. I'm a little afraid.

and here I am again.

The wedding was not as bad as I had envisioned. I did have to wear a dress and heels but I got to wear my new mohair shawl I finished on the plane and the dress came off as soon as the ceremony was over. I sat myself at the little kids table and enjoyed laughing at pirate jokes and burps during lunch. As soon as my food was gone I ninja vanished around the house into the overgrown farm/garden and got sunburned eating blackberries. I am happy for my sister and I know the occasion really was about her and her new husband but I think I will go into hiding in Bolivia if my little brother decides to get married.