The shrug is done

The Yarner August 18, 2010
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Really fun knitting with all those colors. I just have to be careful what I wear it with:

shrug

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Yarn Aquisition Road Trip

The Yarner August 17, 2010
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The plan was to have breakfast, go to Wool’n’Things in Orleans and split after maybe lunch. But after coming out of the store, loaded with bags, hyped and ready to do more damage, we looked at each other going ‘And now?’ So onward we quested to Wool-Tyme in Nepean. Then over lunch it was communicated to us that the Ashton Store had just gotten in a bunch of silk lace. What’s a knitter to do, but to shoulder the burden. ;o)

I confess that I went a little over board all in all and spent quite a bit more money than I had planned to. (Had I known about the silk lace that morning, I would have been more conservative in Orleans.) That said, it’s awfully hard to feel contrite when one is surrounded by bagfuls of handpainted silk, cashmere, baby merino and their yarngasmic ilk. *happy sigh*

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Still a bit muggy, but supposed to clear up later

The Yarner August 16, 2010
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My double knitted cowl is finally dry, so I could take some pictures:

cowl composite

I really like the way it turned out. Very nice pattern.

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26°C – Thunderstorms

The Yarner August 15, 2010
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Tiger’s on the mend. He felt good enough by evening to go out and eat a bite at our favorite Italian around the corner. Yay!

It’s been raining cats and dogs and hippos all day and for a good chunk of last night. We were catapulted out of bed around 6:30 this morning by a clap of thunder that sounded as if the neighbor’s house had exploded. It’s been a deluge ever since. I’m so glad I decided not to bike to my knit breakfast this morning, but had a lift instead. That would have been impossible.

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The Yarner August 14, 2010
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My latest test knit, the double knitted cowl is finished and blocking as we speak (so to speak). There’s some ruffling on the cast-off edge, but I hope the blocking will take care of that. Pics when it’s dry.

The poor tiger is still out of commission so we’ll reschedule our afternoon plans as well. Hope he’s better tomorrow. No fun that.

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The Yarner August 13, 2010
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I couldn’t help myself; had to cast on sth with my pretty new hand-painted yarn. I went thru a couple of shawl patterns, but finally decided on a shrug, fittingly called “Indifference”. I’m so easily amused.

The tiger came home early with a bad migraine today, poor guy, so I canceled the breakfast for tomorrow. We’ll see how things go from there.

I installed the first of the two trellises in the backyard, and it looks quite nice. I’ll have to take pics.

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The Yarner August 12, 2010
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Finished the prototype of my very first shawlette design. I still have to fudge the math on the increases a bit to make the base angles a bit more acute, so that it’ll be easier to use as a neckcloth, but overall I’m quite happy with the way it looks:

shawl

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The Yarner August 11, 2010
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I re-skeined the first batch of cotton today, and here’s how it turned out:

skeins

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27°C – showers

The Yarner August 10, 2010
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Humidity was up in the nineties again today. I hung my skeins out to dry anyway, but they’re still damp. The cotton took the dye really well, but on the wool (the four skeins in the back) it’s wasted. I’ll have to redye those skeins.

skeins

The gasman was here to change the meter, which makes me very happy, because I repeatedly had to call their emergency number for the old one when it smelled of gas in the vicinity. Hopefully that’s taken care of now.

And in other news my computer suddenly decided to lock me out this morning so that I was reduced to checking mails on the netbook, with no access to my files. The tiger did some open sesame trick, and now I’m back home, but he says he’s a little worried that he doesn’t really know what caused it. There’s a suspicious log entry that points to a small bug in the recently downloaded pattern font causing a domino effect. That kinda sucks, because I’d been hoping to use that, but of course it had to be deinstalled. Hrmph. Well, at least I have my computer back, and will watch with an eagle eye now if anything like that happens again or if it was really related to that font.

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I *was* going to paint the trellises today

The Yarner August 9, 2010
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I swear, I was. Only it was still a bit cloudy and humid today. Paint wouldn’t have dried well in this weather, right? Aaaaanyway, I had this whole lovely batch of fibre reactive dyes sitting there, waiting patiently to be tried out. And I acquired all these skeins of cotton on Thursday. Right? And besides, I’d been depriving myself of a good yarn dyeing spree ever since we started to tackle the basement. Things just came to a head today. I *had* to dye. Right? Right.

I had nine skeins of something like a fingering or light sport weight of cotton and one large skein of lace weight cotton. I thought I’d use up all my dye on them, but I had lots left over, so I ended up dyeing a handful of sock yarn skeins as well. (I also managed to spot dye the shirt I was wearing and my hands, even though I wore gloves.) So far, the colors look spectacular. If they look that good after the skeins have been rinsed, I’ll be extremely pleased. And I only have to wait until tomorrow to find out. *starts pacing the floor*

Dye stuff

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