Long time no blog. When last we all spoke I was in the midst of pet tragedy…anyway Darcy found a fantastic home that did not have feline terrorists who wanted to drive him away. So after that I fell deep into martha mode. I redid three rooms of my house. For ‘redid’ read organized and moved stuff around. This entailed building a bookcase so I could have one dedicated just to knitting/crafting and buying lots of pillows so I didn’t have to get a new couch. I also got new tables for the living room. Anyway I think it looks fantastic (or as good as its going to get).
Close up of the knitting/netting/tv spot, the bookcase behind it has my knitting books:
Why yes I do have to fight her for the chair.
I did do some dyeing while all this was going on though. I’m trying to break out of my wine comfort zone so I did some more greens and ventured into rusts/oranges. All of these skeins are Kona by Henry’s attic. I was playing around with different techniques and I must warn you they are not yet reskeined.
I think I’m getting better. If you want to give any of these a new home let me know. I can’t possibly knit faster than I can dye. Which brings me to another topic I have a tentative offer for a wholesale situation. I keep going back and forth on it. I like dyeing when its me just futzing around but dyeing for other people to buy? That makes me incredibly nervous.
Anyway all this led to little knitting and thus little blogging. Besides lets be brutally honest, thermal is not a good blogging project. It’s like oh boy another inch that looks exactly the same! Besides it looks a mess now with all the stitches being held on extra needles. Oh one funny thing did happen, the other day I was working on it and watching tv and completely messed up one of my previously finished back shoulder pieces. So now I’ll have to frog back and refinish it. But the good news is that I am on the front so hopefully before the end of this century I’ll finish it. The thing is I do still enjoy the sweater. Its not like other simple patterns where I’d be gouging my eyes out by this point. I also frogged the scarf I had started because I decided it was too narrow so velvet grapes will have to become something else. I did start a sock just in time for the end of socktober;) I’m using shibui sock on 1′s and I have to say I love this sock yarn. It might be my favorite yarn yet. Like more favorite than STR even. I mean the base. It’s just at the toe hat stage and I’m looking for a stitch pattern to plug into my sock recipe. I did attend a fiber fest this past weekend but I’ll try and blog about that tomorrow since I have loads of pictures and stuff.
I already told you so, but the living room looks so fantastic. I really like how the yarn dyeing turned out, too. And yeah, I haven’t even updated my Rav picture of Thermal because, well, it looks the same. I’m even on the second sleeve, so it’s SUPPOSED to look the same.
That last yarn is breathtaking, *drool*
I LOVE the living room. The yarn looks great too. I seriously think you should sell the dyed stuff… even if you only do some small time stuff on etsy.
Mmm, tomato red/orange yarn? Yes, please! About the wholesale offer–can you try it one time and see how you like it? Or would that be too huge a commitment? I think your stuff is absolutely gorgeous, and I’d bet others would too.
I wish I had a Martha mode. If I do, it usually only lasts about 20 minutes–not long enough to get anything done. Heh.