Sunday, February 27, 2005  

this is what I should be working on

but instead I have a fairy factory going on...

yep...those are 10mm wooden beads (about 50 of em) that I painted little faces on this morning...and I cut some dresses out of wool felt and I am going to embroider them this afternoon...then silk flower skirts...
I have made these in the past from kits from wee folk studio...we carried them for a bit in the store....at one point I really wanted a christmas tree covered in fairies...now I am just going to make them to have a bit of fun...trade some...give some as gifts...etc...I will post pictures when I am done.....

And that is how I spent my sunday afternoon....

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 1:06 PM ]
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no new pictures today...just an update....
it has been a chaotic week (with next week looks as chaotic).....guests have come and gone...doctors appointments have been kept...with no new news....just a "watch and wait" for the patient and another mri in august....lucy has had vacation....one of the wonderful woman of town has died:( and our employees husband is in the hospital waiting heart surgery on monday...

Have I accomplished much in the midst of all this...not really....I have been reading...thinking...praying....and getting over the emotional and physical fatigue I am in....I did finish the spring socks....and have dreamt of many new projects...hopefully soon I will have more to show and say.....just wanted to let you all know...I am here....and okay...really!

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 7:48 PM ]
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so tomorrow I have to make the decision...do I put my sewing machine away and all its bits and bobs for another two weeks or do I keep it out in hopes I will have a spare second to use it?

progress-
heel to turn on spring socks...
2 inches on another cuff
no progress on mock cabled socks....

alice head prototype done....woo hooo.....

things that need to be done by sunday....house cleaned...house cleaned....house cleaned (bil and mil coming for a visit...only bil staying here).....sock yarn dyed....and a commission dye job....and poosibly some rovings for me (gee....what a thought)....alice...because with company over it will be this week or never...and a trip to a real store to get all the odds and ends I feel I have needed since the last trip (a month or two ago)...

on the other thrilling side...my first interweave press order arrived for the store...unfortunately 1/2 the stuff was on bag order:( dang it....

and I got a fantabulous bunch of pictures from miss Mimi (doll blog on the side bar)....yeah! I am in heaven!!

off to watch project runway...and look through my daughters art for today:)....

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 8:06 PM ]
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Okay...so I am on my way to making Alice


as you may notice....she will not be a particularly traditional Alice...I have done two heads and I feel with the tweaks I have made...the third may be the charm...(as I ask myself...why didn't I keep all my patterns of yesteryear when I made dolls and artist bears....duh!!!)....luckily all the info is still in my head so designing really hasn't been a total nightmare (in fact, I am pretty amazed at how much I remember)....

Tonight I had a delightful chinese dinner around the coffee table with miss boo (dh is having dinner with his "pool" pals...since one of the bunch is back in town)....my fortune said "Now is the time to try something new"...inwhich miss boo responded "see Mom, you need to try peas".....and hers said "You are gifted in many ways"...she liked her fortune much better than mine.....ahh...life through the eyes of a 5 year old...

the purse is still on my desk waiting to be lined....socks have a couple more inches done on each...but...once again, I am telling myself...I am going to finish Alice...this month even!!!!

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 6:45 PM ]
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so...I dyed some sock yarn

I am tickled with the way it came out...unfortunately..this is not all of it. I ended up selling quite a few skeins to customers this morning before I could get a picture....if you feel the need for one of these balls or want the info...it is here

I also got some wool dyed....I have lots of earthtones so I did some bright colors...many of which I hope to use on my alice in wonderland doll for "a month of softies"...which I am GOING to do this month...really!!!

as for the booties...you mean the ones that are in the trash...well...it was my second strike with knitting in two days......that is why I decided that I must need to dye since everything else was not right....and I also cast on another sock...yep...that is three pairs on the needles....
this next week I will be dying more sock yarn (I have 5 skeins left that are white...and then I will need to wait for another reorder)....

life in a nutshell here...

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 1:45 PM ]
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instant gratification-
I needed some springy yarns for the store...cheerful...happy....non woolies...so I called rowan, ordered some summer tweed and my friend brought it that night home from the office....

Excuse my blurry picture...but it was a day downstairs (15 hours) because of the snow, I had no break...so I am a bit blurry myself...

I have a pair of cotton/wool booties that need to be blocked and "made up"....and I did work on a cute lace bonnet but somehow was 20 sts short when I got to a row with a count...so that was frogged and I was a bit crabby for a bit.....I have 2 socks on the needles....the cuff done on one....and tomorrow I hope to dye!!!!

I got my wool felt in today and I need more color I have decided...so while dying yarn tomorrow...some felt will be dyed and ready for playing with...and if time permits...I will "make up" the booties and sew together and line a purse I knit up too....

and it is snowing....eventhough the intial forcast said 18- 30 inches it started as rain for quite awhile and then turned to sleet and now it is heavy wet snow...(and it has been light to heavy for the past 13 hours).....crossing my fingers the employees can make it in tomorrow so I can my dying done....well...atleast there is saturday....

night!

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 7:32 PM ]
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so...there has been oodles of quilting buzz going around the internet...so I thought I would show the wonderful quilt I recieved when I was pregnant with miss boo....I love this quilt and so does my little monster (I had to steal it off her bed)....

simple block with applique and embroidered pictures....from the lovely miss A

I started Fat Tuesday with a Krispy Kreme Donut...how appropriate...don't ya think...

and I forgot to mention that I ordered a "bit" of 100% wool yesterday...ahhh...can't wait for it to come to play with.....

what's on tap for today....well, I bound off the pansy sock (cuff only done) and miss boo is using as a neck warmer for "ooma"....I will (hopefully) cast on 3 or 4 socks...so i can rotate between size 0,1, 2, and 4 size needles depending on how the mood strikes me...and I must start thinking about spring samples for the store...i was informed I should be getting stuff by the end of february....woo hooo....

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 7:39 AM ]
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Okay..after a bit of ripping out...sock one is done...it is soo buttery soft....the green ply is baby alpaca...yum....

what else have I been up to??? nothing...I have been a slug...and it is going to continue as we go t bed early until we finally feel we have caught up on some sleep (we have both been exhausted and this is suppose to be the "quiet time" at the ole general store...if we don't catch up now, summer will not be purdy)...ugh....

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 7:27 PM ]
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finally the silks are on the site

a little sneak peak.....

so, do not knit after a busy day and putting away 35 cases of wine...not good...had to rip out my heel;(

and a picture of ralphie before I go...he is maturing soooo nicely

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 4:50 PM ]
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well...the blends are updated on the site...with hopefully more done this weekend...but it is superbowl weekend...so we shall see....
and I have been working on some yarn....I don't know the stats except it is fingering weight...but yards??? have to wait til I have it off the bobbin...it is a two ply merino

and I started the springy green and pastel socks for me...

and I am not sure what I make of these...I am kindof disappointed in the color placement....(I guess this confirms that I need to dye my own)
side one-

side two-


and I have this one waiting in the wings to start...using the same fluted bannister pattern I used on miss boos green socks

a bit sock obsessed still? nah...not me....

   [ posted by Delicious Yarn @ 8:22 PM ]
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