the fiber fetishist

This weekend and next week are/have been completely insane and action-packed. Somehow in the middle of everything I’ve found the time to: how serious she looks! Teach my youngest sister the knit stitch. She mentioned a few weeks ago that she was thinking about learning how to knit. We had a few minutes in between [...]

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BSJ, Bonnet, and Booties. Yesterday evening I headed over to my LFS to pick out buttons for the BSJ. Lucky for indecisive me, notions were 25% off, so I bought four different sets of buttons (for $8 total) and headed home. DH and I compromised on the buttons: he picked out white flat hearts but [...]

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This was a very quick project, especially considering that I spun this yarn up myself AND I quickly get bored with both ribbing AND scarves. I may just end up keeping it to wear with my corduroy jacket This all started with the spinning, discussed here. I spun it up quickly — the BFL was [...]

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I’m really not much of a PINK person. I never have been. You could even describe me as the anti-pink. Yet somehow, I am awash in the pink WiPs… BSJ, top-down bonnet, and mary janes This set is just about done — I need buttons, which I hope to find this weekend (the shower is [...]

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Or, how to say one thing and do another! tess sock yarn I love how it smells! I had a dream last night. I dreamt about a sock: the mating of a particular sock pattern to a certain modification of a cast-on I’ve been meaning to try out (a modification I’ve never seen before). socky [...]

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I am slowly working through my single socks, as much as I believe in Christy’s (Neither Hip Nor Funky) single sock movement, I do also think about eventually wearing (or giving away) the socks I knit, and the new drawer I have for the mate-less ones has limited space. My goal is to mate up [...]

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I’m not sure what motivated me to “get ta spinnin’.” Maybe it was Kelly’s (Kelp! Knits) recent spinning on the wheel she’s borrowing. Or maybe it was Noricum (Soapbox) spindle spinning while staying out of town. Or maybe it was the posts in the Hello Yarn groups on flickr (Hello Yarn Fiber Club pool, Hello [...]

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