Its all true, the boogie girl is real, and you've found her. She knits, sews, spins, does pottery and writes it all down in this blog.
Monday, April 05, 2004
Hey lookie! I'm home
If you have dial up I imagine my blog must be hell for you. 
I finished this on Friday night, please excuse the really bad picture, no natural light today. I dont really like it. These things look so much better on other people. I'm wondering if it was just too fluffy for me. So I fixed it and now it looks like this:
I know sad isn't it? I still have to unravel more of it. Its a pain in the butt to rip boucle and I have no patience for it this morning. I actually started going at it with a pair of scissors and then in shock realized what I was about to do. I put the pretty little mass of yarn down, knitting up little pieces of yarn is not fun and I do want to use this again. I think I've figured out that I have 3 problems with it. 1. The fluffiness bugs me, so I may try the same pattern with a different yarn. 2. As I got to the last set of cables I started to think it would be neat to do even fancier cables with it so now I'm a little dissapointed at my plain little cables. 3. I saw a sweater made out of something like this on someone at the show this weekend, it looked so comfy and I started to think right then and there of ripping this out and starting a sweater. I've turned into such a fickle knitter. Having said all that, Do you want my pattern even though I don't like it at the moment? The company I got the boucle from is inexpensive and I really like the yarn. I have the boucle in other colors too. Yes I went nuts when I found them and now I'll go back and get more of this red so I can make a sweater. The plain yarn is some woolease I got on sale but the boucle is from Numei 
And then on Saturday and Sunday I did a footie each day. It may look weird but its supposed to be a ruffly top. They look good on, I'm just not limber enought to take a picture of myself wearing them. I made them with some Hot Sox I know you are looking at that and thinking I must be the acrylic queen. Lately it does seem like I have a bunch of acrylic going on. I plan to start husbeast's sweater today in Lamb's Pride Bulky to help balance it out (feel better about me?). To justify my use of Hot Sox. I bought it for the kids socks because it was on sale at $1 per skein and I can get a pair of footies for me and socks for M from one skein. Or I can get 2 pairs of kid socks from one skein. It's soft and I figured I couldn't lose since kids out grow their socks so quickly there is no chance she will wear it out. Well to make a long story longer, I loved the camo colorway so I just had to make myself a pair. They wear like iron. They aren't warm like wool but they make good summer socks. The only problem I have with the stuff is that it will stretch out a bit. No holes in the yarn, the yarn actually seems to make a tighter fabric after a while, it just is a tighter fabric in a looser form. Its odd but I now make the socks a bit small and after a couple of wearings they are perfect. I'm sure I'll make a couple more and I plan to make a tank top out of the rest of my camo. I don't always like the feel of cotton so I have no problem using acrylic for my summer clothing, but I do prefer that it have some nylon or cotton content. Hot Sox is 40% nylon so it fits the bill.
This is part of my booth and me picking my nose. Okay not really but I have a collection of "finger up the nose" pics and I just had to add one to it. Childish? Yes. I keep seeing ads for the new movie "13 going on 30" and I've been thinking that the movie of my life should be 30 going on 13. 
Just a bit of the pottery. I think I confused people by having both types of items. I think for this type of unjuried show I'll bring the bags and such while at the high end juried shows I'll of course do the pottery because that's all that I usually submit to be juried. The highlight of my show weekend (other than the 5 hours of driving each day) were obviously the other crafters. I actually had another crafter walk up to me Sunday afternon as I was packing up, and say "I'm almost done packing, My husband and sons are going to pack up your truck next if that's ok with you" How cool is that?!?! Since I was all alone it was great to have so much help and to get home an hour earlier.
Questions and Comments
Firstly, thank you all for your sweet comments once again. The vest is really simple, but it suited what I wanted and it keeps me warm. I'm not sure I would make one out of 100% wool as this is really warm as it is. But I am thinking of making one out of some chunky cotton.
I'm glad this brought out some of you silent readers. This referal system doesn't seem to be working well and I never know who to link back to. I'm going to try and update all of that later today.
That picture on knitty: I look sleepy not drunk? Maybe Sleepy hung over looking. haha. I actually don't drink enough these days for a good old fashioned hang over or I may say it could be a possibility. But I always could use more coffee. In fact I drink right up til bed time.
I still have the pink sheep knitting bag, It almost went but they fell for the olive one instead.
We are having a snow storm today and I really want to light a fire in the fireplace and to curl up with that giant wool sweater for husbeast. I have some orders I took that need to be filled so hopefully it will still feel a bit wintery later. Its probably the last wintery day of the year and I want to hang on it to for a bit more pure wool enjoyment. I don't usually like winter in April but there is nothing like a good bunch of wool to make you appreciate snow.
Critter Knitters.
If you haven't started this there is still a bit of time to do so. I bought a ton of fleece a few years ago to make dog beds for a no-kill Doberman shelter but they didn't need them so I have all this thick gorgeous fleece that has been sitting here for a couple of years. I hope to get to sewing it up this week and sending it off. Its nice to find someone who will use it, not to mention that I may get a prize for doing so.