NaBloPoMo - Oh, my!

So in an effort to start blogging regularly again, I joined NaBloPoMo for May. I hope this will help me get more focused again on my craft and work. I want to photograph my work and post it, as well as update Ravelry.

I have lots of knitting and teaching and writing to talk about.

May 1, 2012. It starts! :0)

Finished Serenity Socks - Yay!

I finished my Serenity socks Monday. I have them on my feet as I type. I'm very happy with them considering I knitted them mostly without a pattern in front of me.

I used Deb Barnhill's Back to Basics toes from Knitty.com and Cat Bordhi's Sweet Tomato Heel that debuted at the Sock Summit.
The heel is great, but next time I use it I want to do the reinforcement stitch - the sl1, k1 to make the heel wear better.

Addendum: December 1, 2011
I'm enjoying the socks. They are wearing nicely, fit Great, and wash well. I haven't dried them in the dryer. I just can't do it yet.
I have some commercially knit Opal yarn socks that I put in the dryer, but I can't do my handknit socks yet. Maybe when they're almost worn out. :0)

15 Working Days till retirement, but who's counting?!

I can't remember how to do this....

I can't remember how to set up the sidebar so that the KAL from below shows up in the sidebar with a link to Ravelry and the event.

Yeehaw2011!!!! Westknits Mystery Shawl KAL 2

August 2, 2011

Yarn TBD TODAY! Cast on tonight.

I will be casting on tonight. I have to pick my yarns still. I have sock yarn galore so I'll pick from my stash.

I love Stephen West's patterns. So creative.

http://www.ravelry.com/projects/JeannieF/westknits-mystery-shawl-kal-2011-earth--sky

A useful tattoo (who would have thought!?!)

Go check this out....

http://brugdidaleik.blogspot.com/
Scroll down to March 10, 2011


An actual useful, dare I say, practical tattoo. :0)

Isn't it Great?

Estes Park Wool Market

Just some pictures for now and a little text.
Estes Park was wonderful.
Such a beautiful setting for workshops and fiber indulging.

The view from the high school of some of the mountains.

I'm looking at mountains about 10-12,000 ft. high. I was at about 7500 ft. at Estes Park.





This was the view out the window of the high school by our classroom. In the bottom right corner you can see the water of the lake.
The snow on the mountains is still so deep that you can't see trees up there. It's a concern as the summer heats up and the river rises. It's running very high through town as of now.

The classes were so good. I totally enjoyed myself, and I learned so much.
That's for the next post.

Till then...

DO OVER

6/3/2011
DO OVER
I was so close! I could see the end. I was on the third section and realized it was too short, the 2nd section was too long, and there was a mistake in the seed stitch part of section 2.
I decided to rip it back to the mistake in the seed stitch and take it from there.
I wound the frogged yarn onto my swift as I ripped it and that’s when I realized I couldn’t knit from the swift! Well, I could, I suppose, but it wouldn’t be portable.

I had to frog the whole thing.
So, DO OVER.

Did I talk about the Ridged Beret?

Maybe tomorrow.

Something to look into.

I'm going to check out this:

Learn the Basics of Knitting in 30 Days

I'll let you know how it goes.