Knittingdragonflies

Jul 12, 2009

Donate a Cozie to Sophie

If you haven’t heard about her, Sophie is a great little 4 year old that is inspiring many people to pick up their sticks and string and make a cozie (a cuddle blankie) to donate to her. She is collecting them to give to children at their local hospital.

She has a group on Ravelry called Sophie’s Cozies (of course). Sophie knits herself and is adorable. Please go to Ravelry and read her story.

I caught wind of her on Plurk, and donated the rest of my baby blankets from my Etsy shop. Woo Hoo….this little girl can inspire. She reminds us of what is important in life, and to take time to do it.

She wants to deliver her first batch of cozies in September, so get out your needles and get going.

May your knitting needles fly as fast as Dragonflies

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Jul 9, 2009

Over dyeing fugly yarn

While trying to destash, I ran across some nice yarn, but the color way was outdated, or I was tired of them….So…..why not try overdyeing?

(I know I’m really suppose to be destashing and decluttering my house, and I end up making a bigger mess)

Over dyeing begins…why not…can it look worse? Yuck. Blue/yellow/red before.

Before and after, this is with 5 packages of grape Kool Aid, and microwave dyed. It took the harshness away. My husband doesn’t see much difference, but he IS a man.

Here we are all dry and ready to go, now I would knit something with this yarn.

Inspired by my success, I decided to try more yarn. I found this blue/orange/burgundy/green color way. ugh…

More yarn…and this time I tried solar dyeing, I found out that WalMart had their sun tea jars (glass) on sale for $1 each. I used this method.

This yarn reminds me of the 70’s, and then some grape and cherry kool aid (sorry I know it’s generic, but that’s half the price)

Sun tea jars + yarn + kool aid + sun = yarny goodness

I waiting 2 hot days, the dye mix in the jars was clear, and this is what I got.

Grape Kool aid overdyed and Cherry Kool aid over dyed. Success, now I would knit something with these.

Top is cherry and bottom is grape.

May your knitting needles fly as fast as dragonflies…

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Jul 7, 2009

Tour De Fleece 09 update

I had planned on spinning my purple roving first, but decided to start on some pink roving that I got from Grinny Possum Fiber Arts.

8 oz of very pretty pink roving

Just getting started on sat July 4th

Watching some old movies and spinning, it’s raining outside so good time to get some spinning done.

Done with the pink roving, so pretty

What to make with it???? Ideas?

Now on to the purple and NCIS….

I’m getting better at my spinning, I’m able to get it thinner, do we all dream of spinning lace weight yarn?

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Jul 6, 2009

Another Felted Bag: Knotted Up Bag

I saw this bag in Bags That Rock and fell in love with it. It is a nice across the body, slouchy bag, with an easy style.

From the beginning I had trouble deciding if I needed to knit it one stranded, (this looked much too thin), or double stranded, (oops, not enough yarn).

Like any bewildered knitter, I just put my head down and started over. All of the pieces done, I wasn’t happy with the thinness of the yarn knitted up, but I kept going. Single crochet around all of the pieces.

Now we sc the pieces together.

And add the bottom, oops, the bottom is much too small!! I sc several rows around to make it fit, and then sewed it in.

All together and ready to felt!! Now the fun really begins…

All fuzzy and drying. It did end up to be quit thick and ready to finish up. I plan to get some fabric to line it with and haven’t decided on how to finish the closure. (zip, snap?)