October 2007 Archives
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I’d like to thank my…
10.31.07 | Tags: Socks | Comments: (4)Knitpicks Harmony needles (and magic loop) for bringing sock knitting back into my life. Without you two I would have given up on socks because it was too tedious to use double points and I was afraid that I would poke myself or someone else with the pointy needles. And now that I can knit two socks at once, I won’t have the issue of second sock syndrome. But sometimes I will be knitting a new pattern with a new yarn so I don’t know how they will turn out so I won’t always be knitting two socks at once. That is okay with me since I am turning out socks lightning fast and faster than I can turn out sweaters (ahem my 5 day hourglass sweater also knit on Harmonies.)
To satiate my lightnighing fast sock knitting, I bought 3 skeins of Smooshy from Sonny and Shear.
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I asked for lace yarn and this is what I got
10.26.07 | Tags: Lace, Shopping | Comments: (1)
If I’ve done my math right, thats about 4lbs of wool lace weight yarn. I told my mom who went back to China to buy me a few skeins of laceweight yarn. A few skeins turned into 4 lbs! I will never ever need to buy lace yarn again. My aunt is in China too, I think I might have given my mom directions to tell my aunt to buy me more yarn. I hope its not all in laceweight
Anyone wanna trade yarn?
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Baby Fridays
10.26.07 | Tags: Baby Fridays | Comments: (0)Baby has discovered that my bed is very comfy (took her long enough!) Shes not actually allowed on the bed but for ever since I got her, she never had an interest in getting on the bed until recently. One morning I woke to find her sleeping next to my feet. A few days later while I was sleeping she sneaked onto the bed again but then I made a sudden movement and scared her out so badly that she made a ruckus and leaped from the bed. I actually didn’t realized what the noise was until later when I had actually woken up! Low and behold yesterday I caught her napping on my bed. When I discovered her she was fully asleep with her eyes shut. I went to grab my camera, but by then she woke up realized I was snapping photos of her. I didn’t punish her though if I did I don’t think I’ll have issues with her jumping on the bed. She is getting her way….
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Rhinebeck 2007
10.21.07 | Tags: Misc, Shopping, Spinning | Comments: (0)I left Brooklyn with Baby around 8am to pick up my friend Tran and her dog Hans to go up to Rhinebeck. It was a beautiful day and a beautiful drive filled with getting lost but not actually lost and coming back to NYC with the worst possible traffic ever (nearly 2 hours to get from the Bronx to Chelsea).
Dogs are actually not allowed in the festival so they stayed in the car all day. When we pulled up to park, an parking attendant noticed the dogs and said that there was a law in NY that says dogs can’t be left in the car and that I might get a ticket if they see the dogs. I don’t know if there actually is such law but the guy was nice enough to send us to park under the trees so the dogs don’t overheat.So on to the festival! We were both starving so the first thing we did was get something to eat before the lunch lines get crazy. We both got chicken pot pies that was not worth the $6 we paid. It was dry and the crust was burnt.
We didn’t have a map of the festival so we decided to tackle building by building. The first building we went into had Socks that Rock! It was on my list of things to see and possibly buy since I haven’t seen this sock yarn in NYC. I bought 2, enough for a chevron scarf, if the colors don’t turn out so well, they will be turned into socks. I waited in a huge line to pay for it. When i came back to the same building later in the afternoon, there was no line and there were still some skeins of Socks that rock left albeit not in the more interesting colors.
I didn’t go crazy with buying but it would have been very easy to buy up everything I saw. I had a plan and a budget. Besides the two skeins of Socks that Rock, 2 handpainted merino tencel blend fiber and 1/2 lb of baby alpaca roving. I actually got a really good deal on the baby alpaca roving at $2.50 a pound, but it was late in the day and I couldn’t fathom shelling out for an entire pound of it, so I got 1/2lb instead.
I felt that we kinda rushed through the booths a little too quickly. We went through all the buildings, plus watching sheep herding and sheep shearing all by 3pm (we arrived around 11am.) The only thing that I kinda wished I did, looking back was trying some wheels. But the place was waaay to crowded to comfortably do that.You can see more of my rhinebeck photos on Flickr
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