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Ok, so maybe not this picture in particular.  I got zero knitting done today.  Instead I had a fun evening making a new recipe for dinner, hanging out with L for a while at the house, the taking Max over to play with Samba.  J & I watched Dancing with the Stars tonight.  What a funny show!  I got high level amusement from it. 

So here is the progress I made in 2 nights of knitting.

This is the sweater body design, my current vision is that it will be used one time only and spans the exact number of stitches I will have for the front and back pieces.  Also, the areas that are white will be grey and the purple design will be done in the Green Wensleydale.  I worked on a LOT of options while designing this combination of greek key motifs.  The middle piece is also greek key motifs pivoted in various directions with seperating rows removed.  I really like the effect it gives.

Here’s the sleeve design which will be used once on each sleeve:

I’m looking forward to starting to spin the grey alpaca portion of the yarn.  I am really optimistic about this design and would love to hear what you all think.  This is my first attempt at designing something with a picture or graphic on it so it should be interesting!   

I knit a whole 12 rows on the Ljace Kofte last night which is an entire repeat of the eyelet lace pattern on the sweater.  Whew that took a while!  The sweater is starting to look really nice though now that I have a repeat and a half of the pattern done it’s starting to look like something other than a hem!  I’m loving the feel of this sweater, and I think it’s really pretty.

I’ve been doing a fair bit of design tinkering on this green/grey Greek Key sweater that’s ruminating in my brain.  I’ve come up with something that should work well I think.  I need to spin up that Alpaca now and get working!    I think I have decided to do one band of design on the body and one on each sleeve and to use a green stripe in the cuffs and collar to tie it all in.  I can see it in my head and I think it will be pretty, but we’ll see.  I need to get some opinions on my design, so I’ll be pegging my friends with excel to look at it and tell me what they think.  (You’ve been warned…)

I’m getting more and more excited about goingto see A.  It’s only 2 days away!!!!!!  I’m so looking forward to seeing her new house and where she grew up.  Also it will be nice to just get away.  I’ve been feeling a bit thinned out lately.  Pulled in too many directions, too many distractions, not enough substance.  This is not the end of the world, but it’s usually a sign that I need a vacation.  And getting away to see my friend is just what I need right now in the worst way.  Hmmm, I wonder if A knows where to get a good margarita near her house.  I’m in the mood for a really yummy frozen strawberry margarita. 

Well, I took pictures of the Wensleydale yarn and the alpaca fiber that I think it will go with.  I thinkthe body of the sweater will be grey with the greek key design in the green.  I’ve been working on the greek key design that I want to use and I have quite a few ideas that I am playing with.

I think this combo will be stunning.

I also wanted to show you guys the progress I have made on my Ljace-Kofte.  I did the hem last night and the first body row.  Here it is with the ball of yarn I’m using.

Here’s a closeup of the picot hem after turning.  I really like it.  It’s subtle but very attractive.

Well, that about does it for my blogging tonight.  Time to go take Max over to J’s house to play with Samba!  Much fun will be had.  My pup loves his friend. 

Have a great night all…

You may have noticed that my site looks different yet again.  The reason is that many people, including me were having trouble seeing all the words on the last template.  The right hand box was overlapping the text.  Kirk fixed this for me, but decided to change his layout enough that it didn’t really look so much like this one anymore.  This template was the one I had wanted in the beginning, but since Kirk did all the work on the sites with the move etc he got first choice of layout.  I convinced him to let me have this layout!  Yay!  Happy dance!    I love it!  It’s the Expression Engine layout called Blue Essence. 

All right, now on to the weekend.  Friday when I got off work I went home, got my Susie wheel and my bin of fiber and went over to LadyV’s house for a spin in.  I had finished spinning all of the Green Wensleydale and was eager to ply it.  And that’s what I did.  It took quite a while as I spun it pretty thin and I had to ply 2 ounces from each bobbin.  This is the most lustrous and wonderful fiber!  It’s my favorite color of everything I have spun to date.  It’s as though it has an inner glow.  Truly beautiful. This morning I was inspired by the fact that it was overcast.  I think that greens look their most vibrant on a cloudy day so I have decided to use the Green Wensleydale with some pretty light grey alpaca that I have.  I’m going to design something to do with both of these together.  Probably a greek key design and hopefully a sweater, but we’ll see.  It might only be a vest.  I think I will try to photograph the green yarn on the alpaca fiber to get a better idea if they will go well together.  LadyV and I had a great time spinning and talking and sipping wonderful wine in her beautiful sun room.  Thanks for having me over LadyV!

While at LadyV’s house I looked through her A Gathering of Lace book.  I saw at least 3 patterns that I want to make with my own handspun and one with some Zephyr that my friend S gave me.  But the pattern that struck me so much that I had to buy the book was Ljace-Kofte.  I decided that I would make this sweater with my Greem yarn.  So Saturday rolled around and found me way too busy to knit, but I did manage to get to my LYS Cloverhill Yarn Shop and bought the book and I also picked up Color in Spinning by Deb Menz.  I looked through it at V’s house and had top have it.  It’s a great book and I hightly recommend it.  Saturday afternoon J & I had appointments for MAC make up applications at the Annapolis Nordstrom.  I love MAC makeup and it makes me stretch my color bravery which is a good thing.  It actually has bled into my knitting and spinning because I have tried color combos with makeup that I would not have done and it has inspired fiber combos.  The green and peachy orange is a perfect example.  I would not have combined these two, but they are so beautiful in makeup together that I was inspired to spin a yarn with each one as a ply.  That’s going to be one of my next projects actually.  And in addition, I was shocked to find that not only can I wear peach make up, it actually looks pretty!  So the green/orange combo might just work!  J & I got back to my house and I made a new recipe that I had never tried.  It’s a pork stir fry kind of thing with tofu, it’s called Ma Po Tofu.  It was fantastic and easy to make so it will be a keeper.  Then J & I went back to her house with Max so that Max & Samba could play for a while.  They had a great time and were very well behaved.  J & I played with make up colors and looks trying to find the perfect combo for the wedding that J is in a few weeks from now.  We liked the foundation/blush/lipstick the MAC girl used on her, but the eyes were well, scary.  Too harsh for J’s features.  We played around and J did a look that was Perfect!  She’ll look great at the wedding, and the Charlotte’s Web shawl I made for her in February looks amazing with her bridesmaid dress!  When I got home from J’s house I was tired, but really jonesing to swatch for Ljace Kofte.  So I made a swatch on 8’s that I was marginally happy with, but needed to go down in needle size.  I went to bed and reolve to re-swatch in the morning.

On Sunday morning I did a swatch on 7’s, blocked it and was not excited.  I did another swatch on 6’s, blocked it and was really happy with it, so I am doing the sweater in 5’s and 6’s.  The sweater has a lovely picot edge/hem, and in order to get the hem done I had to do an invisible cast on which I had never done before.  It took me a while to figure it out and cast on the 208 stitches.  Then I knit and knit and knit.  I got the 22 rows of the hem done, which includes turning the hem and knitting it together with the body.  I managed another row and it was 11:30pm.  Time to call it a night. I was so consumed with my knitting that Kirk made dinner!  Thanks honey!  I’m looking forward to taking a picture of the sweater so far.  I’m one row away from starting the eyelet lace pattern and I’m getting very excited!  I’ll try to reign in my excitement enough to take pictures before I knit for 4 hours and it’s too dark to take pictures.   

I hope you all had a great weekend!

Hmmm, let’s see, I spent a lot of time working in and around the house over the weekend and this week, but I did take some time out over the last few days to work on some projects.  Here’s a picture of the spinning I’ve done this week:  From bottom to top they are; some of the Ramboulliet from LadyV, 2oz of the Wensleydale from Hatchtown Farm that I got at MDSW, and about an ounce of Cormo that was gotten at Misty Mountain Fiber workshop in Gettysburg.

I’ve also been knitting!

Remember when I was talking about my longest unfinished object being a pair of socks?  Well, I finally started the second sock a little while back.  Here’s a photo of the sock in progress along with its big brother who’s been waiting a long time to see a mate for this pair.  (About 2.5 years…)

I also started the second Bramble Berry sleeve but I barely have an inch’s worth of knitting so there’s no point in showing you.  What I will show you though is a picture that Kirk took recently of 3 of the 4 animals together.  For all of you who have asked me if the dog gets along with the cats, I think I can prove it with a resounding “Yes”!

I hope you all like the new blog, I’m still getting used to it and how to get things done on here.  If you want to see any of the photos from previous entries, let me know which ones and I will load them up.  But otherwise I’m not going to go through the whole 16 months and repopulate them.  I’m just happy all my text and comments came over!

Hi everybody!  Sorry I had that hiatus there for a day, but as the re-direct said, we changed hosting companies and blog engines.  I’m still kicking the tires on this one.  Not sure about it yet, but it’s interesting so far.  I haven’t figured out how to put my links to everyone in yet but I will soon.  Honest.  I was lost without them!  I was searching around the internet for my favorite people and my favorite sites.  I hadn’t realized how dependant I had become on my links! 

I’m just happy to be back!  If you are kind enough to link to my blog, please change your link to this new and impossible to remember link.  Thanks, and check out the top bar of your window.  Everytime you visit there should be a new enlightening/funny/thought provoking quote up there.  It even does it when you comment too!

I have lots to tell you guys, but for now I’m going to sign off so Kirk can do some more work on this thing…