Take that Kate

In response to the horrible Kate Spade Scarf, I came up with this



It's a Chunky, 2x1 rib scarf. The only problem being that I spun the yarn myself and seem to keep underestimating how much I will need. The Yarn is a mix of hand dyed blue faced leicester carded with bamboo and plyed with ripped hand dyed silk left over from my college days. It actually doesn't look that good in skein form but I am loving how it looks knits up



It's currently only long enough to wrap around my neck, and I just ran out of that color silk. So it will either end up with some asymmetrical "stripes" or I will make a chunk knit neck warmer.

Either way, still WAY cooler than that $95 acrylic mess.

Oh, Kate Spade now I remember why we had to break up

This is why people should learn how to knit.


I'm usually all for the "it's easier and cheaper to just buy a sweater/scarf/mittens" mentality. But a chunky garter stitch acrylic scarf? Go pick up some $3 Lion's Brand from Walmart and save your self $92.

Like a record baby...

I just started a spinning class and after my second one, I think I am hooked. Here is the very bulky fruits of my labor.

These are my first attempts, the one on the left is from learning to card the wool.



This is my first real skein of yarn. Its merino silver in raspberry and lilac with some silver alpaca blended in.



I am pretty pleased, and planning a trip this afternoon to buy my own carders and more fiber. I have a bad feeling there is going to be lots of spinning and not so much knitting in the next few weeks.

Only the strong survive

Here is a little bit of what I have been up to the last few weeks.



And here is a shot of just “Octobot”



Not as much I would like, but not to bad. I’m in the process of reorganizing my job situation., which is taking up more time than I expected. I thought freelancing was supposed to be all lunch meetings and relaxing afternoons of sewing and knitting, um yeah not so much. As much as I love the fact that I work for myself now, I was definitely unprepared for how much time it takes just to keep yourself organized and on top of things, not to mention all the actual work. But things are starting to fall into place slowly but surely, and my needles are finally starting to get some use again I think they were getting a little lonely not being dragged all over NYC everyday. I am starting to get a little burned out on the toys and I might switch back over to my “sweater”. I put sweater in quotations marks because of course I have decided I am going to frog it and start over. I want to make something more structured and blazer-like, I’ll post some sketches when I get a chance to scan them. Poor sweater, it never knew it didn’t stand a chance.

McK-