Crafty Chatter

Phat Fiber: Zebisis

2009-03-26T08:48:00.000-07:00

This is becoming more of a history of etsy stores I want to remember!!

The Phat Fiber Giveaway found here is for Zebisis Designs, home of the most wonderful spindles! There is a malachite one over there that I am particularly smitten with!

Phat Fiber: Norther Lights Fiber Company Giveaway

2009-03-26T08:41:00.000-07:00

I'm a little behind on my Phat Fiber love! See here for a great giveaway with gorgeous fibers from The Northern Lights Fiber Company!

Bunky Bobos Giveaway

2009-03-26T08:34:00.000-07:00

Phatfiber has another great giveaway going on! See it here.

This one is for Bunky Bobos. The yarns in her shop are so vivid! I have fallen in love with Miami Vice colorway.

Phat Fiber: DaniDo Crafty

2009-03-12T08:22:00.000-07:00

Today's Phat Fiber giveaway can be found here. The giveaway yarn by DaniDo is in my favorite colors...greens! Anyone who knows me knows I have a soft spot in my heart for all things green!

Phatfiber: Liberty Fibers

2009-03-11T07:48:00.000-07:00

Today's Phatfiber giveaway is so inspiring. I have thought about dying yarn myself but always seems to see very bright and slightly gaudy colors other people have made which turns me off. What I imagine dying would be things that look stripped from nature. For example, I would want a colorway that looked like the mountains. It would have a purple that looked like the mountains from afar (that would be our purple mountain majesty!), the greens and browns that look like the moss and lichen that cling to all of the rocks in our Rocky Mountains, and definitely the muted pinks of the little flowers peppering the landscape. I just saw that in Liberty Fibers' Purple Melon colorway. They've given me hope that there are beautiful colors out there still that don't look like a clown or acid trip was the main inspiration!

Phatfiber Give Away!

2009-03-10T13:41:00.000-07:00

Just learning about PhatFiber (and putting them on my dashboard to follow!) A great way for people to get their products out there and for the consumer to get a give away. Who doesn't love a contest?

Go check it out http://phatfiber.blogspot.com/2009/03/desert-garden-and-giveaway.html

Today is a New Day

2009-03-09T08:24:00.000-07:00

Every day I wake up and have crafty thoughts rolling around in my head. Today is a new day and with the help of Facebook (where I spend too much time) I'll start keeping this blog updated!

Currently I still have that long list of projects to finish that are listed down there from last May. Sigh. Also add to that about half an hour of work for Liz's hat. This leads me to a whole new query. I recently acquired a new Liz in my life and am having a hard time when I'm talking distinguishing between the Lizs. One is a Boulder Liz and the other not, but the not Liz identifies as a Boulder Liz (similar to how I still identify as Boulder Hallie). They both knit so that's out. I hate new and old, plus I think they may be just about the same age! I'm think the new one to my life is PenguinLiz and the one whose hat needs to be finished will remain Liz. Whew! That one needed to be talked out!

I also have a few non knitting things going on in my head that I really want to try. I think this year is going to be a year of excellent crafts. There will be paints, beads, wires, yarns, fabrics, and even a sewing machine! I also want to start trying to sell some things...probably through Etsy to start. Yes, this is on top of the fact that I'll be applying for jobs today that if I get will have me working fifty five hours a week until June when I'd start working sixty three hours. Well...we'll see! Maybe I won't get any of the jobs and then will have more time to sit around cutting shapes out of fabric!

Now to just make sure I post again soon. I promise, turning over a new leaf here!

"Idiot" written on my forehead

2008-07-16T16:17:00.000-07:00

I need to post more regularly, and put pictures up. Those would both be good ideas. For the time being though I will just make a quick little complaint. Today while at the yarn store purchasing stuff for a swap as well as stuff for me I decided to grab one of those needle savers for dpns that hold them all together...two plastic blobs held together with elastic. As I'm strolling about with my yarn and needle saver the owner asks me if I know what I'm holding (no I like to pick up random shit in a store and take it for walks). After I politely said yes she proceeded to explain them to me as well as how to use them (but on end of needles, der, thanks nice lady I was gonna take 'em home an' tryn' tie ma hair up withum). I have never felt so stupid in my life. I must just make a really stupid face when I'm shopping because I tend to get talked down to a lot wherever I yarn shop...no...wait...that'd just be in Boulder County I get talked down to. In Lakewood, Austin, and Anchorage people talk to me like I know what I'm doing. Sigh.

Apple Hat (Adult)

2008-05-25T19:53:00.000-07:00

In January I promised a baby's uncle's girlfriend I'd make her an apple hat like the baby got. That is my next goal, I need to crank it out by June 1. If it's in writing I have to complete it, right?

I have heard great things in the last week from a knittin' friend about tubular cast-on. To the needles!

Honestly, I already cast on once with the assumption that I'd be able to fit the hat on a small corded set of circulars. I was wrong and instead of slipping them over to the dpns I just start pulling it off. Ooops. There's something to be said for not trying to knit at one in the morning I guess.

Trying to Get Back on Track

2008-05-21T21:29:00.000-07:00

Okay, lately I have been made of the fail. I blame the classes and the work. Today, however, I finished a dishcloth. Sad and not a whole lot with goofy mistakes throughout, but I'm going to use it to wipe up coffee spills so I think it'll be okay. It was just the jump I needed to kick me in the butt and back on track. The invitation to a birthday party also reminded me about the hat I promised someone I'd make last February. D'oh.

So herein is the list of things I need to finish:
Fingerless mitts (not really finished since I haven't even started but I love the yarn so much)
Brother's slippers (need an insole, fulling, and bottoms sewn on)
Eric's bag (needs the meshy sides and handles made)
Penelope's slippers (need to make the second one)
Julianne's slippers (need to make the second one, oh, and finish the first)
Misty's doormat (it makes my hands bleed, seriously)
Ashleigh's monkey (I am so close and put it to the side a year ago, grrr)
Andy's hat & scarf (wip for eight years now)

I think there is more, and they should probably be done in that order. I suck. It's just a bunch of gifts that I have been neglecting to give to people. I'm sure there are more but I can't think of them right now. I wonder if I could get the hat made and a little present for the birthday boy (first birthday) by June 1? Gah.

First Post!

2008-03-20T23:34:00.001-07:00

Well, here's the first post for the all crafting blog. None of my job woes, school complaints, house falling apart issues, and other such nonsense will be seen here...well unless it relates to crafting. Hmm, I guess that would be like "I can't knit in business school classes like I used to knit in philosophy classes" or "I can't knit during my break because I don't get one, oh, and my co-workers are all morons" or "If that damn house wasn't falling apart and sucking up all of my non-existent resources I could afford more yarn."

So to start off, currently I need to knit a string bag that I just ripped out because I miss counted and screwed up the bottom, as well as a second slipper, for gifts by Monday. Yeah right. I guess when I'm not driving on our sixteen hour drive I can knit. Sleep is for suckers. I also have a ton of things that really just need to be finished, the worst is the pair of slippers for my brother that I practically finished in January. I am going to put in an extra layer and then just need to full them. Most get on that!

So that's that! Now to hopefully do this regularly.