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Karen's Craft Odyssey

Karen's Craft Odyssey

Spinning, Weaving and Knitting (and whatever else I want to play with)

Archive for June, 2006

Sun
25
Jun '06

Finishing Up

Spent the weekend finishing up a bunch of old projects (and some new ones).
[thumb:417:l]First I made a “iPod Sock” for my mp3 player — it’s not really an iPod, but the idea is the same. I ran out of sock yarn so I just put eyelets in the top edge and a drawstring. [...]

Fri
23
Jun '06

Pictures

[thumb:406:l]Finished the Landscape Scarf (Fibertrends pattern S-2002). This is made of handspun soy silk. I bought the soy silk at the Warwick camp in March, and started knitting at the Ipswich camp in early June. The scarf only weighs about 30g — I have plenty of yarn left to knit another.
[thumb:408:r]Booties and [...]

Thu
15
Jun '06

Just had to pass this on…

One of the blogs I check is Popgadget and they had this neat iPod accessory. Too bad my mp3 player isn’t an iPod (didn’t want to deal with proprietary formats, etc).
I’m done with the assignment marking finally. Missed Night Owls Wednesday night because I was marking. Finally finished at 10pm tonite and [...]

Tue
13
Jun '06

Another pair done

[thumb:404:l]These are pretty quick. But then, they have to be. I really don’t have a lot of time for craft these days and it seems like the babies won’t stop coming. [newline] [thumb:403:l]Yesterday I started the next pair I need (baby is due 29 June). This is an old Paton’s pattern. [...]

Thu
8
Jun '06

Site Update

Did’ya notice? I re-organised the stuff in the left hand border of the page — the miscellaneous pages and blogroll.
[thumb:401:r][newline] [thumb:398:r][thumb:279:r]I also posted some pictures of finished objects on the appropriate page (and here too).[newline]
[thumb:397:l]And I’m spinning some mohair.