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pretty yarnz

I spent my snowy exile being productive. More »« Less

It’s beginning to look a lot like…

This past Sunday was the big Christmas party/knitter’s gift exchange at Jacquie’s house, and boy, it did NOT disappoint. The gift exhange was done “bad santa” style, where everyone draws a number and picks gifts from under the tree….OR steals a gift from someone who had gone before them. This always starts out tame and polite, with everyone picking unwrapped gifts…but soon turned nasty as some of the gifts turned out to be too good to pass up. A gift could only be stolen 3 times before it was considered “safe,” so there was much hand-wringing and tears. Poor Knit Goth got her gifts stolen AT LEAST 6 times, if not more. More »« Less

spun-zen

For anyone considering buying a wheel, I highly recommend it. I know I’ve been using a borrowed wheel for the past *cough* year now, but having a wheel of your own? Is awesome.

I also highly recommend buying on at a fiber festival. Because when you buy a wheel at a fiber festival? People treat you like you just had a BABY. More »« Less

a rewarding week

Whew, made it! Out of the parking garage, and through my first week at my new job. It’s been fun, busy, somewhat boring, and awesome all around. It was a trial by fire, really, as they threw us into a huge undertaking that while not mentally challenging, was still quite the challenge to get done by the deadline. In the end we finished in plenty of time, with the recruited help from all over the office (never would have made it without the help) and got treated by the manager of Quality Assurance to lunch yesterday, as a thank you for a job well done. More »« Less

insoluable fiber

So some of you may be asking “Does ESC still do anything crafty or fiber related?”

OK, a few of you. Not most of you. Most of you just shut up and keep reading

and the answer is YES, I DO! The summer heat has sucked away much of my knitting mojo, but with the recent surrender to the gods of air conditioning, I suddenly got hit with some serious spinning mojo. I had been working very slowly on some fiber I bought last year (but only actually got a few months ago) from copper pot woolies. I love the colors, but for some reason, I really fought with this fiber. It might have been a little felted, or maybe just stickier than I’m used to. But I still managed to spin a fairly decent yarn with it. I finished spinning and started plying last night, and then finished plying this afternoon. More »« Less