Saturday, May 27, 2006
Anyone still looking for me?
It's very sad...25 people used to read me when I was here, now only 8 do, at least according to Bloglines. Sad.
Anyhow, if you want to add me to your RSS aggregator/feedreader/whatever, here is the URL you need:
http://mrsfife.wordpress.com/feed/
Apparently you need that last feed/ thingy some times. I hope I see some more readers.
Thursday, April 13, 2006
Moving, please change your links
In case I wasn't clear in my last post, I'm moving to http://mrsfife.wordpress.com and anyone who has me on their blogrolls may please change their links accordingly.
Thanks!
They have categories and smilies! Enough said.
Thanks!
They have categories and smilies! Enough said.
Joining the bandwagon
Everyone's doing it, so why not me? I've transferred my allegiance to Wordpress.
Transferred all my posts and comments, and being the anal retentive that I am, I'm also working on categorising all the archived posts.
Transferred all my posts and comments, and being the anal retentive that I am, I'm also working on categorising all the archived posts.
Saturday, April 08, 2006
Squeak!
This is what you'd call a narrow squeak:
Notice how close I've come to the end of the yarn on this front panel. Luckily, I have this in store:
that my SP sent me. Yay!
We are now on sleeve #2. Heee.
Most of my projects are determined by the amount of yarn I have rather than anything else.
Notice how close I've come to the end of the yarn on this front panel. Luckily, I have this in store:
that my SP sent me. Yay!
We are now on sleeve #2. Heee.
Most of my projects are determined by the amount of yarn I have rather than anything else.
Friday, April 07, 2006
Oh darn!
This is what happens when you don't read a pattern fully before plunging in. Darn.
I've just gone through the Short rows jacket pattern again and realised what I thought was the back is actually one front panel. Daaaaaaaaaaarn. And dang.
So, am I frogging? Nope.
This little baby will just have to be inventively worked. Darn. It will entail picking up stitches on the other side. It just shows you that a more experienced (or attentive) knitter would have known how such patterns work and would have cast on for the front anyway.
If only the pattern had said "Cast on 60 sts for the front right (or left) panel."
Anyhow, since my yarn is a thicker gauge than the one in the pattern, the 30 ridges called for in the pattern would be too broad a front panel and I'd have to modify the pattern in any case. So I do it now. Darn.
Young lady, let that be a lesson to you!
Thursday, April 06, 2006
Bunnies!
The other day, my vegetable vendor was selling bunnies! Real, will-grow-up-to-be-rabbits bunnies. I immediately drooled all over them and proceeded to pet each of them. There were two gray ones, one black and one cowering white one which never showed its face. One of the gray ones was up on the fruit shelf making merry among the grapes. The black one was giving me black looks and I hesitated to touch it at first because it scared me. Supposing it bit me? Do bunnies bite people?
I've never touched anything so soft in my life! I wish I could get them home with me. But bunnies seem less hmmm interesting than cats somehow. Do they have personalities? I also read somewhere they don't like being held, which will defeat the primary purpose in getting them, which is to cuddle. Also, do they make any sort of noise at all?
But that softness! sigh.........
I've never touched anything so soft in my life! I wish I could get them home with me. But bunnies seem less hmmm interesting than cats somehow. Do they have personalities? I also read somewhere they don't like being held, which will defeat the primary purpose in getting them, which is to cuddle. Also, do they make any sort of noise at all?
But that softness! sigh.........
Hey, look! A sleeve!
See, on the right of the picture, you see a sleeve! Yippee.
Working the short rows on both the cuff end and the neck end, it is just a wee bit confusing, but I will persist. I've made a bit more progress on the sleeve since the picture was taken.
Is it just me or does anyone else think the sleeve seems too short? Ah well, I can always pass them off as 3/4 length ones or something.
Crochet FO
It's a ripple doormat! Finally managed to finish something with the rectangle ripple pattern. The colour is more purple than the dull nothingness in the picture.
Yarn: RH SS Dusk Rose (?) and RH Aran fleck, each with two strands held together. Not full skeins.
Hook: Size K 6.50mm Crystalite
Pattern: Ripple stitch, 62sts wide
Time: Overnight
Size: About 27" long and 18" wide
Extra: First ripple and nice, too.
Also nicer than the so-called Half Circle that I made with the same yarn in January.
Yarn stores in India
Desiknitter wanted to know about yarn stores in India. So here is a list that we at the Crochet_India group have gathered so far (and some of these stores include thread-only stores as well):
Bangalore
Bombay Embroidery Stores,14, Raja Market, Avenue Road,
Bangalore - 560 002 22237311
Bombay
Pradhan Stores
Bora Bazaar
Chennai
Raja Thread Store
Chennai
R S fancy Stores
Adyar opp Telephone Exchange
Chennai
Adyar Thread Emporium
Hyderabad
B S Kamaladevi & Sons
4-3-747 Sultan Bazar Hyderabad
24754468
New Delhi
New Kalpana Tracers
Shop No. 120 (Opp Vegetable market),
Sarojini Nagar Market
2410 1702/2467 8396
New Delhi
Sushila (wool depot?)
Munirka Mkt
Pune
New Galaxy
Wonderland, Pune - Camp
Visakhapatnam
Rathi Stores
Poorna Market,
In lane opp Aarif Opticians
Visakhapatnam
Sivam Garments
Next to HSL colony gate, Malkapuram
No, laughing is not allowed. We take what we get.
And Desi, Vardhman does make fun fur and feathery types of yarns and I didn't know this either until J from Lucknow sent me some. There are colours, also, apparently. I have to confess *shamefacedly* that I've never knowingly used Indian wool, either. But it is available in northern cities in various qualities. Yarn snobbery, yarn stores, stash...a bit unreal, what?
Bangalore
Bombay Embroidery Stores,14, Raja Market, Avenue Road,
Bangalore - 560 002 22237311
Bombay
Pradhan Stores
Bora Bazaar
Chennai
Raja Thread Store
Chennai
R S fancy Stores
Adyar opp Telephone Exchange
Chennai
Adyar Thread Emporium
Hyderabad
B S Kamaladevi & Sons
4-3-747 Sultan Bazar Hyderabad
24754468
New Delhi
New Kalpana Tracers
Shop No. 120 (Opp Vegetable market),
Sarojini Nagar Market
2410 1702/2467 8396
New Delhi
Sushila (wool depot?)
Munirka Mkt
Pune
New Galaxy
Wonderland, Pune - Camp
Visakhapatnam
Rathi Stores
Poorna Market,
In lane opp Aarif Opticians
Visakhapatnam
Sivam Garments
Next to HSL colony gate, Malkapuram
No, laughing is not allowed. We take what we get.
And Desi, Vardhman does make fun fur and feathery types of yarns and I didn't know this either until J from Lucknow sent me some. There are colours, also, apparently. I have to confess *shamefacedly* that I've never knowingly used Indian wool, either. But it is available in northern cities in various qualities. Yarn snobbery, yarn stores, stash...a bit unreal, what?
See Eunny Knit!
Here I am discovering all sorts of treasures in the knitting blog world. Eunny has great tutorials and other info for knitting lace. Too bad I didn't see it before I made that scarf/stole.
Adventures of a Desi Knitter
Adventures of a Desi Knitter
Yes! I finally found a fellow Indian knit blogger. Yay! Go on check her out, she's got beautiful knitting happening.
Yes! I finally found a fellow Indian knit blogger. Yay! Go on check her out, she's got beautiful knitting happening.
Wednesday, April 05, 2006
It's not pretty
Here are my adventures in wrapping rows for short row shaping. It's not pretty, so if you're at all squeamish, please turn away now!
The first two pictures show the piece (it's the back of the jacket) from two different angles, and so far, it's ok. If you squint, you can even see the shaping.
Now the thing approaches (this photo shows the true colour of the Froya Narvik, by the way) and you begin to shudder:
Yikes! See what I mean?
And this:
Now off you go and look at some pretty knitting instead! And no, I am not going to frog this. No.
The first two pictures show the piece (it's the back of the jacket) from two different angles, and so far, it's ok. If you squint, you can even see the shaping.
Now the thing approaches (this photo shows the true colour of the Froya Narvik, by the way) and you begin to shudder:
Yikes! See what I mean?
And this:
Now off you go and look at some pretty knitting instead! And no, I am not going to frog this. No.
Too bulky
Here is what I tried with the ggh Aspen. First the pattern is very poorly written, and then the yarn is too chunky for this, I think.
I spent hours googling for an explanation of the honeycomb stitch, not very successfully. Then I found it in my Harmony Guide, but I needed the diagram to understand what to do. In any event, I found I'd soon run out of yarn if I attempted to go any further on this, so it's waiting to be frogged.
Naaah. This yarn is still in search of a good pattern to be shown off, and something tells me it might be knit. This bit took an entire skein!
I spent hours googling for an explanation of the honeycomb stitch, not very successfully. Then I found it in my Harmony Guide, but I needed the diagram to understand what to do. In any event, I found I'd soon run out of yarn if I attempted to go any further on this, so it's waiting to be frogged.
Naaah. This yarn is still in search of a good pattern to be shown off, and something tells me it might be knit. This bit took an entire skein!
Stash bag
This was the bag that Viji gifted me for my stash. Nice! Handmade by a lady in Pune.
Monday, April 03, 2006
New tenant
A new tenant from Indonesia over there on the right side ----> Go and check it out!
