New Year and fiber cross roads
In which I ramble, possibly aimlessly about weaving and knitting...
I think this is the best Sunday I've had in a while. Instead of being at home, faced with all the little chores I didn't get to during the week, I'm over at my uncle's house. He's laid up from some recent surgery and wanted some company, so I brought over some cookies. Being that we're both fiber addicts this is good cause we can stay on the couch and talk about knitting/spinning/weaving/dyeing for hours and not exhaust all conversation possibilities. We've been visiting my grandparents (his parents) every week since I got back from the UK, and he really helped me keep my sanity during the reacclimation/unemployed year. Bringing cookies and talking about the merits of superwash wool is the least I can do. Right now he's taking a nap so I thought I'd put in an entry.
So now in the new year, I've got a new job; and with the two week holiday break from it I was able to finish all the knitting/weaving projects I had going which means......I can now go and buy yarn mostly guilt free! My stash for weaving is huge, just ask my mom, who doesn't find the sight of drying skeins of cotton in her house to be that pleasing. Knitting yarn however, is rather scarce. I became a true knitting junkie in high school, but due to my lack of being on the internet and my mom not being crafty, the only yarn I really came in contact with was that arcrylic stuff you can get at wal-mart, I had a huge basket of it. Once I became a fiber snob in college, I gave it all away to a charity that knits things for the homeless. In any case, I've been slow to rebuild the knitting stash cause I just haven't done that much knitting since I started weaving, until now. I find that it's nice to have a project going, cause knitting can where weaving cannot, and it's nice to have something to do with my hands while waiting or even just watching tv. I just found a great source for yarn called knitpicks, and have a baby jacket and some mittens I've been meaning to make, so time to get the wool. The only trouble is that I keep getting seduced by the colors on this site, so I'll have to be careful ;)
Here endth my fiber ramblings, I should have some weaving pictures up soon.
PS I gave a watercolor to jlrpuck for christmas and promised to show her the source photo so here it is:
I think this is the best Sunday I've had in a while. Instead of being at home, faced with all the little chores I didn't get to during the week, I'm over at my uncle's house. He's laid up from some recent surgery and wanted some company, so I brought over some cookies. Being that we're both fiber addicts this is good cause we can stay on the couch and talk about knitting/spinning/weaving/dyeing for hours and not exhaust all conversation possibilities. We've been visiting my grandparents (his parents) every week since I got back from the UK, and he really helped me keep my sanity during the reacclimation/unemployed year. Bringing cookies and talking about the merits of superwash wool is the least I can do. Right now he's taking a nap so I thought I'd put in an entry.
So now in the new year, I've got a new job; and with the two week holiday break from it I was able to finish all the knitting/weaving projects I had going which means......I can now go and buy yarn mostly guilt free! My stash for weaving is huge, just ask my mom, who doesn't find the sight of drying skeins of cotton in her house to be that pleasing. Knitting yarn however, is rather scarce. I became a true knitting junkie in high school, but due to my lack of being on the internet and my mom not being crafty, the only yarn I really came in contact with was that arcrylic stuff you can get at wal-mart, I had a huge basket of it. Once I became a fiber snob in college, I gave it all away to a charity that knits things for the homeless. In any case, I've been slow to rebuild the knitting stash cause I just haven't done that much knitting since I started weaving, until now. I find that it's nice to have a project going, cause knitting can where weaving cannot, and it's nice to have something to do with my hands while waiting or even just watching tv. I just found a great source for yarn called knitpicks, and have a baby jacket and some mittens I've been meaning to make, so time to get the wool. The only trouble is that I keep getting seduced by the colors on this site, so I'll have to be careful ;)
Here endth my fiber ramblings, I should have some weaving pictures up soon.
PS I gave a watercolor to jlrpuck for christmas and promised to show her the source photo so here it is: