Holy Screwups Batman!

Seamless Salomas Slippers.....Holy snot!  The first one I did, yeah....I started knitting the thing inside out, yeah a little dyslexic .  Then I didn't pay attention to the first decrease row.  Then didn't knit every wrong side....Tried again, had to rip back twice because I wasn't paying attention to what I was doing....Well, after two days of on and off knitting on it, I actually did it.  But I might have to go from the medium to the large size, and I did it on size 8's instead of 6's.

Think it's time to put down knitting and try to teach myself how to spindle.  Have an Interweave video on a thumbdrive and see if I can do this....First I am going to use the fiber that I had gotten when I got the heavy spindle, then go to the stuff I got on my trip.  We will see.

Update, I have spun some.... its not the greatest but its spun!  Yay!

One thing I forgot to mention about my vacation was that, when I was near the Crater Lake Lodge, there was a girl sitting on the wall facing Crater Lake and knitting.  I commented to my mom that would be a great view to actually knit.  Kewl beanz.......

Oh Whatever.....

I just can't stop!!!!  I have the 22.5*, the wingspan, a dishcloth, a Hitchhiker, need to start a hat for my brother (not to self camo yarn), the fiber to learn spinning.  And guess what I want to do?  I want to start the Seamless Salomas Slippers, that's if I can figure out Judy's magic cast on before throwing thing whole kit out the window.  What have I gotten myself into?  Guess I think I can multitask while looking for a job! 

Wish me luck on the cast on.....I know the rainy season is coming even though its going to be 95 tomorrow.

I just watched a little bit of Miami Monkey, is Big Ang a plastic surgeons wet dream or is she a he?

Oh tonight I saw the last Hippie Penguin podcast, her husband is trying to do this podcast fiber thing... Just starting out.  If interest is peaked, go to facebook and type in podfiber...If you don't donate, just click like....  See where it goes.

Just a Short One-Kollage

I just got in my Kollage square circular knitting needles and switched the 22.5* over to them...  OMG...  I am finding my hands hurting less and less issues with the join.  I only did about 6 rows but they are very nice.... when I find some more money I might get a couple of more sizes other than the size 2's I had gotten. 

Back to knitting!

PS One More Thing

If you are in the Portland, OR you probably heard of the bicyclist that was hit and left for dead in SW Portland.  Well one of the local yarn shops in NE, The Naked Sheep, has found out that he knits, so they are making a collection of yarns for him, Cascade Yarns and Lantern Moon have made donations.  Here is the blog post from the Naked Sheep.
Yarn for Henry Schmidt

Hello!

After a little bit of inactivity, with probably not a lot of people waiting with baited breath for my next post. Spent 10 days camping and a little knitting, I am knitting the 22.5 * with Einband Icelandic wool.  The yarn is very nice to knit with but my problem is with my circulars, the join on them are a pain in the butt to make sure that the stitches move over them.  But I was in this yarn shop in Eureka, CA and was asking the shop owner about the square knitting needles she said that they are great to work with, not a problem with the join, and helps with carpal tunnel.  Well guess what I did when I got home yesterday?  I went online and bought some Kolage square needle circulars online at a place that a group on Ravelry said to go to and got some for $14.95.  I can't find the link but just do a search in the forums and you should find the link.  I know I am a bad, bad blogger!  But the shop in Eureka and the shop owner is great, if you are ever in that town, the website is Yarn (yes that is the name!) .

When I was camping near Bandon, OR, my mother and I were going south to look at some lighthouses near Cape Blanco and we saw this shop near Bandon, which we were going to, but coming back from Cape Blanco we saw this different wool place, said what the heck and pulled in.  OMG!!!  I am glad we pulled in.  Wild Rivers Wool  The lady was fantastic.  There were yarn, there were...yes me speak good English honest!  There was a nice mixture of knitted products, yarns-some handspun, there was even Pendleton remnants that you could work with, felting products, but what got me was this bookshelf that was about 6 feet long and about that tall full of fiber.  Since I have been wanting to spin for a while, bought a spindle from Highland Handmades, guess what I did?  I asked as a spinner wanna be, what I could use to start spinning.  She was very helpful.  I found some very beautiful stuff.  Neat thing is that the fiber is wrapped in newpaper, so the ends are sticking out.
The first is the stuff that called my name first. Its Romney wool with 10% suri silk, called blood orange.

My lighting was off so it looks a little bit more rust than blood orange, but its really nice color.

The next one is Wensleydale, it red white and blue called Patriot, which was an after thought but its Wensleydale!  What the heck.

Now I don't know if $6 is too much for approximately 2 oz but what do I know and sorry that the tags are crinkly because they have been in my backpack for almost a week.  (sorry for the thumb in the pic! Just saw that!)

Well, I am going to sign off for now, this is been a long one.  Now I just have to find the beginning spindle videos I have on a thumb drive and pull out the spindle, and try try try for spinning.