Waiting

Now that spring is right around the corner, I feel like my mind keeps wandering to thoughts of seeds and dirt and herbs and flowers. This little video by Postcarden.com isn't helping either.

Logan and I are moving to a new apartment later this month and it has a shared backyard... The woman who lives there now says it's really just a big patch of dirt. I've got some little ideas swirling around in my brain regarding that dirt patch... they involve morning glories... I feel like those guys will grow pretty much anywhere. Right?

They're even a little creepy at times.

Growing

The granny is getting bigger.

My hand is there just to give you an idea of how big the blanket is so far. And the colors in this photo aren't really quite right. The part that looks black is really a nice chocolate brown, and the red stripe is really more raspberry.

Right now I'm trying to decide if i'll pull my sick self out of bed to go out and buy more yarn...

Sick!

I'm sick. I had a bit of a cough all weekend and by Monday morning i just had to call in sick. And then again today. And tomorrow too.... Ugh.

Yesterday I tried to convince myself i wasn't really sick by being productive. I made a big pot of black bean soup from scratch with some vegetable stock i made over the weekend. Then i spun up some merino. The colors of the wool are pretty bright and i wasn't sure what kind of yarn to make so I spun three singles. Two of them i plied together and one I plied with rainbow thread. Then I knit a couple of swatches:

The 2-ply is on the left, the thread plied is on the right. I wasn't really into either one. The 2-ply is a little too muddled and the thread plied feels insubstantial and looks a little odd.

So then I made a three-ply yarn by navajo plying. Here's the swatch:

I like this one the best. Navajo plying takes the longest but there's no sense in making yarn I won't use. And it's good practice; I'd really like to start putting some hand-spun yarn in the shop.

I've been working on the giant granny square blanket a lot. It's a good thing to work on in bed. I'll show you my progress tomorrow.

Bloglovin?

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I'm trying out bloglovin.com. Are you on it? Is it fun? I guess I'll find out...

Granny Snow Day

Hi!

Are you having a nice weekend? I am.

It snowed all day Thursday and Friday.

I didn't have anything to do on Friday (well, everything I had planned was canceled due to weather) so I stayed in and learned how to crochet granny squares. Yes!

I used Pip's lovely tutorial. At first it was tricky and I started, ripped out, started, ripped out a few times. It seems to be how I usually learn things... After a few false starts I was off and running! And then it seemed I couldn't stop...

I started this one with some of the organic cotton yarn I use to knit my horses for the shop. After using this yarn to make the same things over and over it was really neat to see it turn into something totally different. I think this will become a giant granny square afghan inspired by the one over at the Purl Bee.

Riding the wave of granny square love, I dug some junky acrylic yarn out of the closet and whipped up a couple of pot scrubbers too.

Also, some pretty merino wool arrived in the mail today. I bought this at Halfday on Etsy. Oh, I love merino...

Spinning Rainbows

I'm making some yarn with all different colored wool scraps and a couple of ounces of white super-wash merino from The Yarn Tree here in Brooklyn.

I'll let you know how it goes.

I am a Rock

I love these old clips of Simon and Garfunkle playing live in front of a tiny audience. Perfect Sunday music.