Woops! seems to have been a while since I posted… Poor blog, so neglected.
Still, there has been crafting. Knitting in particular:
I was so in love with this (ridiculously basic) pattern that I just had to make another. Brilliant stash busting exercise and very handy for getting rid of unwanted non-vegan wool. Not sure who it’s for, but my friends seem to be at that age, popping them out like there’s a sperm shortage. (Well, food, oil, why not..?)
Anyway, it’s still not blocked and I’m not sure which coloured buttons to add. Maybe purple? Or teal? I was thinking red for a while as I like the way it clashes.
In other craft related news, I went to the Iknit Day Out the other weekend and it was fantastic! Not usually a big Yarn Harlot fan, but found myself in hysterics at her talk. She is funny and fun and sincere and quite entertaining. Who’d have thought you could banter away about brain waves and stash for 2 hours and keep a captive audience?
Fortunately for my bank balance there wasn’t an awful lot of vegan yarn on sale. I could only find one skein of cotton tencel blend in the entire hall! Quite ridiculous. Still, that did free up my pounds so I could splurge on some rather pricey L. Nichols glass buttons (no pics yet) and… a drop spindle!
Just walking by a stand, lamenting my sad and sorry yarn purchases, and before I knew it I was handing over my hard-earned cash in exchange for a lovely wooden drop spindle. Never spun a single fibre in my life. Didn’t even know I wanted to really. But still, there you go. And, after a little online shopping magic, a pile of vegan roving landed on my doorstep this morning. I got a little tencel, cotton, bamboo, black diamond, soy silk and hemp! The hemp looked the most newbie-friendly so I tried it out this morning. Voila! An art yarn.
A little thick, a little thin, and kind of, well… hempish. Maybe it will be good hat material? Whatever it ends up as, it’s keeping me well entertained for the moment. (It’s the simple things…)
What pattern is the cardi? I like it a lot. Hope your enjoying seasons in London – it is still 90 odd degrees in KL with a thunderstorm most days. Same same lah!
Hi Amy,
I do miss the heat in KL – it’s already getting pretty cold here and summer was so short. Also miss the thunderstorms!
Glad you like the cardi. The pattern is here:
http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Ranch/4054/babysweaterfront.htm
I love the little sweater…I am working on one myself from Stitch and Bitch. Our friends are popping babies out like the dickens this year too (there have been 4 so far) and the requests for hand-knitted baby goods are coming in!
How is work going for you?