Yarn Pr0n...Saturday?

Pardon the iffy quality of those photos. They were taken at work with my phone because it's just plain easier to carry than my honking huge but wonderful new DSLR. I used photoshop to make them as color-accurate as I could, but of course I'm still not happy. Oh well. Just incentive to get my camera and tripod out into daylight. Anyway.

Knitting: It's slowed back down to a crawl. Are you surprised?

Spinning: Well, other than that skein of Forestness up there, I finished a second skein of the Lorna's Laces Lodestone for Ceci....mostly because I needed the third bobbin free to ply up the Forest. Spindles have been idle because I've been doing other stuff. Like...not spinning.

Stitch markers: YAY! People are buying them! THANK YOU THANK YOU THANK YOU! I spent all day Thursday at work beading just shy of 1000 new rings with the sterling silver beads I bought on Wednesday. (Yes, I have a queue of rings waiting for beads. I just can't afford that many beads all at once, and I can't glue them that fast either.) Spent Friday getting glue all over my fingers and have about 200 completed stitch markers to show for it. Also on Friday near the end of my shift, one of the guys at work (an Irishman, very friendly fellow) was chatting with some of the other people there, and as is usual, was joking around exaggerating his accent. He was walking back by my desk still saying random goofy things when he stopped and looked at my stitch markers and commented, "Are ye makin' wee jewelery fer the leprechauns and faeries?" (That's my attempt to spell his accent, pardon if it looks odd.) I told him no, and what they were. He said they still looked like leprechaun jewelery to him, and that the pink ones (photos forthcoming) were to give to the leprechaun lasses. ...yeah. All of that still being said in his exaggerated Irish accent. I had to stop gluing because I was laughing pretty hard by that point. I'm so glad my coworkers don't see me as a freak for doing crafty stuff in between phone calls.

Still to come:
- Zen String has asked me if I would be willing to start designing knitting patterns for her yarn lines. I'm still unsure about doing this for her, as y'all have SEEN how long it takes me to get anything done, much less original stuff. (Case in point: Lace Insanity, aka Angel Cum Laude took me TWO YEARS to complete, and it's still not what I could call wearable.) Maybe I can sketch up Ceci's and my ideas, create a VERY rough pattern draft, and beg for someone to help me with test knitting? *bambi eyes* There'll be free stitch markers in it for you.
- I've started tossing about the idea of making non-dangle crochet/row markers. Prototypes have gone to Robin for testing/critiqueing. I hope to be able to make them in both worsted and lace/sock weight sizes. We'll see.
- Looking into non-copper nickel-free wire for people with specific metal sensitivities (front runners right now besides silver and gold are niobium and titanium because they both can be anodized to get awesome colors).
- Just got in a box full of beads from an online shop that I need to sort and see if I have rings for them all. They're very pretty. Probably because I gave Ceci the task of picking them out. ;)
- I need to go back by the bead store and buy a HUGE pile of jet black beads (because I forgot to order them online) to go with some of the rings I already have cut. They're too pale for the silver in my personal opinion and I don't know if my just-arrived beads will work either. But I'll probably run it by Ceci first, though. She's my color coordinator.

entrelac at 12:05 PM :: |

Tuesday, February 13, 2007