Thursday, October 6, 2011

Some things that followed me home.

 The mincemeat I made last week, did not really follow me home as most of it has always lived here, but it sure looks yummy.  I am hiding in it the cellar today to keep myself from eating it for a few months.
 Secondary fermentation on the apple cider I pressed with the help of some little girl feet. No the feet did not touch the apple bits.  I should tuck this away too, but it is mostly an experiment and is neat to watch bubbling away - sort of a kitchen pet.
 Okay this did follow me home, or maybe a better way of putting it would be jumping into my hands and would not go back to the shelf.  I am thinking a cowl.  This is Universal Yarns Bamboo Bloom Handpaints in Koi Pond.  I really like that it lists bamboo but acknowledges that it is bamboo rayon 48%, blended with wool 44% and acrylic 8%.  Sort of truth in labeling.  We shall see how it knits...
 Same company this yarn is for Beaver's fingerless gloves (birthday project due Nov 1) and is one of the things I went into the store for.  My local yarn store, Beading Heart Studio, is actually a bead store that expanded into yarn.  The whole store is supper tiny, but she really gives good service - she was teaching her son (about 10 I'd guess) how to help customers and ring orders when I was in there, and has put a lot of thought into what products she has there.  I like that she has beaded knitting project kits as it is a logical tie in.  She showed me the cowl she made out of the Bamboo yarn I bought and warned me that if she was going to do it again she would not have purled.  I agreed with her. 
I started this after dinner.  I have nine inches so far on Mouse's sweater.  I will have a few things to work out to make it work but I really like it.  His eyes lit up when he saw it this morning.  I think the stitch the loom forms looks a bit like a cable stitch.  I am now planing on taking a whack at my Christmas list by looming up a few cowls for people on my list. 

6 comments:

  1. Mmmm, homemade mincemeat sounds yummy!

    Hey, you're knitting with a loom--that's cool! I've never seen such a thing before. Where did you get it and how does it work? I think the fabric for "Mouse's" sweater looks awesome.

    I really like the yarn you bought. I often choose to knit with synthetic fibers or synthetic blends, because my kids complain that wool makes them feel itchy. Plus, I like to yarn that's machine washable.

    ~Susan

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  2. Susan,

    I got the looms in a set at Joann fabrics. They where supposed to be for the kids to use, but I decided to play and figure how they work first. The one in the picture is a circle with 41 pegs sticking up, you wrap the yarn around them, then wrap a second loop of yarn around each peg. Then pull the 'old' loop over the 'new' loop and off the peg. You can all the way around, just going around and around or if you want a flat piece you can not join them and work back and forth. It goes really fast. Mostly people seem to you them to make scarfs and hats, but I instantly thought sweater so I am figuring out a pattern as I go.

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  3. You did a great job describing how the loom works. You must be very clever to be able to figure out a sweater pattern as you go. Butterfly's sweater if adorable!

    ~Susan

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  4. Susan, I am clever if it works. It looks really small right now. Hope I did not just use up the yarn he picked out making a sweater that is way too small for him.

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  5. You have so many creative fall things going on I'm envious. And I LOVE that bamboo+ yarn!!

    Blessings, Debbie

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  6. I just love the fall. Thanks Debbie!

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