Does this mean I can get on Project Runway?
Back when I was in London, I spent a day and a half at the
Victoria & Albert Museum and could have spent another day or two there. SO MUCH STUFF.
Kind of makes me happy the only fashion foibles I have to deal with are super skinny jeans, the return of 80's fashion and my lovely pear shape.
And the part that makes me think I could give Kara Janx a run for her money? There's a fashion section, a textile section and many displays of dresses and a displays of dresses all over the museum. They let me design my own dress fabric and emailed me a copy to save:
The best part was the textile room. There are these great textile designs and then there's boring looking room full of desks. Closer inspection reveals that these desks are full of slider display cases full of old textiles! Hundreds year old lace! 16th century patterned cloth! Ancient Peruvian weaving! And if that's not cool enough, check out this design:
That is seriously the coolest thing ever. Especially it was created in... I think it's the 9th century?
Knit Mammoth!
I originally didn't post about this because the pictures suck, but whatever, I'm doing it anyway.
I knit a woolly mammoth for a fundraiser.
I used
this garter stitch elephant pattern, using some brown acryllic crap and fun fur (to keep it woolly!). I then added a pair of animal eyes, which I couldn't get level, despite my best efforts, and a pair of tusks, which I didn't stabilize with pipe cleaners, so they drooped.
Then I stuffed the hell out of it with a bag and a half of fiberfill.
Personally, I think it's one of the uglier things I've made, but everyone else loved it. At the silent auction, it sold for the maximum bid. Which only goes to show, there's no accounting for my taste.
Dun... dun... dun...
DUN DUN!!
(BOOM boom BOOM boom BOOM boom BOOM boom BOOOOOM)
I have finished my three entrelac panels.
The middle panel bothers me, so I ripped out the initial
mistake and am fixing it. I mean, the wedding was April 15. I'm already 5 months late and have yet to weave ends or start the border. I'd rather have it done well and be a few weeks later than live with the mistake.
10 Knitterly Things You Don't Know About Me
Yanked from
Grumperina. Hey, it seemed like a good idea at the time.
1. I buy a lot of knitting books that I never read. I returned a Christmas present I didn't want two Decembers ago and got an Interweave and
Knitting in Plain English. I have never actually opened it.
2. I never wear half of what I knit for myself.
Menja, which I started working on in 2004 was never actualy finished, mainly due to dealing with my terminal gauge issues.
Scarlette hasn't seen the light of day in a year or two. I guess I'm a process knitter.
3. My stash lives in 2.5 bins that fit under my bed.
4. I haven't spun any of the roving I bought at
Rhinebeck. Or the roving
K8 dyed for me more than a year ago.
5. I used to get my knitting needles from a loom shop in Oberlin, Ohio. I have a size 17 29" circular needle that I paid $3 for.
6. I have knit a sweater and a shawl for my mother entirely out of Lionbrand homespun.
7. I knit many garments, including my
second, neon orange sweater without even knowing what gauge was.
8. I haven't given my former boss her Christmas 2005 present yet, even though all I have to do is weave in the ends.
9. I have been sewing, even though I don't own a sewing machine - have made two skirts and a dress and cut a third. (OK, this isn't knitting, but it's clothes crafting)
10. I haven't bought yarn since May at
MD Sheep & Wool.
And just for fun, #11.
11. My last finished object was
the boobholder. The last one before that was a knit woolly mammoth (which I think I still have pictures of) that I made for a fundraiser in April.
Linkspam
A very... uncomfortable sweater (Extremely NOT WORk SAFE)
Someone
knit an English garden. Knit squirrel! Robin! Snail! Look at the pictures! Seriously fantastic.
::poke::
So, I saw
Anne tonight for the first time in almost a year (since
Rhinebeck). She gave me a hard time about not updating, but a quick check proves that my last post was indeed less than a month ago (August 7th. Ha! I win)
But really, there's not much to post about. I've still been in a bit of a knitting slump, finding my current wedding afghan that I've been working on since
forever... well... boring. I'm about halfway done with the third panel, then I have to rip out and fix the first pattern which I royally screwed up from dumb, then weave in the 50 bajillion ends (why didn't anyone warn me about this when I started entrelac? I hate hate HATE finishing, especially end weaving) and then make and attach the border and then give it to the newlyweds, who by now have been married for almost 5 months. And then figure out what I'm making for my best friend in California who's getting married in January. And the couple who's getting married in April. And the couple who's getting married in June. And the couple who's getting married in October.
Remember when knitting didn't feel like a chore?
