Kiyowara

What's New?

I am having so much fun knitting up the second sock on the Flat Feet for Kaye!  It's really interesting to watch how the colors move from the knitted blank to the sock, and I'm enjoying the process of trying to reproduce the first sock since I worked from a pattern inside my twisty little brain! 

I also did a LOT of spinning over the last few days.  I finished up plying the Redfish Dyeworks superfine merino and silk that I was spinning, and started on the Black Sun colorway of the corriedale pencil roving that I acquired from Crown Mountain.  The fiber is practically spinning itself.  I am spinning a slightly larger single that I usually spin, 26-28 wpi (wraps per inch), with the intention of creating a 4-ply worsted with which to knit the Book Lover's Vest from Folk Vests.  I have wanted to knit this vest for years, and this yarn is going to be just perfect for it!

Now, I have to go and tie yarn so that punkmom and N can dye more beautiful Purl Up & Dye for Sock Summit.  This is the last dye run before we head out, so they'll be at the dye pots all day tomorrow while I tend things up front.  I'm hoping to see more of the wonderful Frog Tree yarns headed to homes where they will be knit up into fabulous new things!

Monday (only it's Wednesday)

So, today was my Monday, as The Shop is closed on Tuesdays.  It was a very good day.  I did have some lingering problems from an apparent gluten run-in yesterday, but I am feeling much better tonight.  I wanted "safe" food for dinner, so I made myself Trader Joe's Gluten Free mac and cheese, putting some julienned sun-dried tomatoes and pepperoni in the mix. It was lovely, and I get to have the remains for lunch tomorrow!

I'm looking forward to tomorrow as Ru's swim practice starts much later than usual and we'll all get to have breakfast together.  Only six more days until we leave for Sock Summit!

Long time, no speak

I don't post here as often as I should. I mostly post here with fiberarts content.   I may go back to doing that as it's easier to post pictures here than on my other blog.  I'll try to be a better poster of pictures going forward!

updating the FO list

It's been a while since I posted here...but life has been incredibly busy.  Here are a couple of photos of things I've finished in the last few months.
This is my Eyelet Cardi by Chic Knits, worked up in Rowan Yarns Silk Wool DK. The yarn is soft and luxurious, and the pattern was a really fast and easy knit. 

I am currently working on a top down hooded tunic for Ru to take to Yosemite worked up in Cascade Yarns Pastaza, a Clapotis Scarf in Blue Moon Fiber Arts Luscious Silk Single for a shop model, a Mesh Back Cardigan in Frog Tree Meriboo, and a Ribby Cardi by Chick Knits worked up in Claudia Handpainted Yarns Worsted as well as Louet Gems Worsted.

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I finished Summer Tank #3 today!  Hooray!

I'm really pretty pleased with it, especially since it looks much better finished than it did in progress.  There are more pictures on my Ravelry and on my Flickr if you want to see them.

Projects 6 & 7

Project 6 was completed around 2 a.m. this morning.  It is the remainder of the plying of the "knockin' on heaven's door" Superwash Merino from Crown Mountain Farms.

Project 7 was the Malabrigo sock, knitted for the shop, made out of the new Malabrigo sock yarn, 100% superwash merino.  It's a yarn that we'll see in the shop sometime in the next few months.

Yeah!  One more to go!

Tony update (again), and other news

Looks like Tony has a bouncing baby 1-2 mm stone.  It's apparently moving, so the decision is to pain manage and monitor for the stone for 2-3 days.   If his pain gets worse he's to call and get better pain management; if after 3 days there is still no stone, then we get to try the next thing.  He's working from home for the rest of the week. Fortunately, his pain management seems to be working well at the moment.  He's just a bit worn out, and he won't be driving for a few days as he'll be on pain meds.

On the other hand,

punkmom

got into her sleep study 2 days early, so managing the rest of the week just got a whole lot easier.  Thursday is

ghostballet

's 40th birthday, which we are planning to celebrate on Sunday.  I'm tired, but looking forward to a massage and a good night's sleep tonight as tomorrow is my day off.

In good news, I did finish project 5 of 8 today.  I finished up the knitting on a bottom up triangular shawl out of a lovely yarn from Creatively Dyed.   The shop will be getting yarn and fiber from this hand dyer in late June.  I'm really excited!  Look for pictures of the shawl on the shop blog in the next couple of days.  I still have to block it.  I'm still hoping to finish the remaining 3 projects of "the bet," but we'll see. I'm pretty run down at this point.

Tony update

So, we went for the CT scan this morning, and Tony and I were reminded of the old joke about having the cat walk on the patient in the doctor's office: cat scan...followed by the dog walking around patient: lab work!  (BAAAAD joke!)  Anyway, the scan was quick and Tony is not in pain this morning, so hopefully the fool stone has moved off of whatever wretched nerve it was on yesterday.  We'll see the PCP later this afternoon to get the results and figure out what's next.

Thank you all for the support.  Yeah, we really didn't need one more stressor at this point, but at least kidney stones are something we can work with. :)

One more wrinkle in my life

It would seem that life is not quite done throwing curve balls at me: Tony ended up in Urgent Care tonight.  Looks like a kidney stone, his second time around with them, only this time set into excrutiating pain much faster than the first time 15 or so years ago.  Poor guy, a pain shot at Urgent Care helped a lot, and he has vicodin to get him through tonight...tomorrow we call to get a CT scan, and an appointment right after with the Primary Care Physician (Dr. L to those in the know), and then we'll have some idea what the next step is.  Consequently, my week this week is going to look very different than I planned for it to look.

*SIGH*

I'll try to keep everyone posted on the results.  In the meantime, please keep your fingers crossed that it's a small stone that can be dealt with as painlessly as possible.

On a high note, I did finish projects 3 and 4 of  "the bet."  They are 3 socks (yes, I said 3), in a beautiful yarn from Creatively Dyed called Luxury.  The pair is for me (project 4), and the single is for the shop (project 3).  I'm hoping to finish project 5 tonight while I sit up with Tony.  I'll let you know!  Pictures coming tomorrow.

FO's!

Two more hot off the needles today!

This the Odessa Hat by Grumperina.  I knitted it in my own handspun yarn.  The fiber is Crown Mountain Superwash Merino, and I carefully spun a 3 ply to DK weight.  I have lots more of the yarn, so I'm thinking of knitting a matching scarf to go with the hat.

This is a fingerless glove for my friend, Ray.  It's made of an acrylic sock yarn, and I'm planning to make him a cashmere pair later on.

Okay, off to spin for a while now!