DF (looking down at me as I sit cleaning my UFO shelf, look up at my yarn stash, smile and wave at it)- "You look like you have a baby."
And today:
Me: You know how you said you'd buy me something to say thankyou for the Christmas knitting? Well the Yarn Pirate is having a shop update today and there will be one-off colours! And *goes on about Yarn Pirate*.
DF: I see- it's the special crack...
Later on
Me *does special I Won The Internet dance of Chumtabulous Update Acquisition*
DF: Let me guess- you got yarn.
Me: Yes! I got two skeins- one is brown and red and gold and really pretty and the other is pink and green and yellow and...
DF: Really pretty?
Monday, December 17, 2007
Thursday, December 13, 2007
So some of you may remember I mentioned the Analogue Amnesty spinning project being run by a knitting artist in the area where I teach. I took my first cassette in to be spun up last week- a tape of Mercury Music Prize songs from 1996. Back then I was wearing a lot of black T-shirts, and writing a lot of purple prose/poetry, for I was only 17 and naturally life was just one form of angst after another. No, wait, one form of angst (I didn't get a boyfriend until 2 years later). I wrote about the black t-shirts and purple writing for the Analogue Amnesty organiser, also the owner of Prick Your Finger where I dropped the tape off, the very lovely Rachael Matthews, when she asked me what colours the music made me think of, so she could include them in the resulting yarn.
She phoned me today and left a message on my answerphone. The yarn is ready. They have named it 'Ellen's Purple Poetry Phase'. But it gets better: they like it so much they are going to KEEP the design for their in-house yarn range. Including the name.
That's RIGHT people! THERE IS GOING TO BE A YARN NAMED AFTER ME!
This is quite possibly the coolest knitting thing ever to happen to me.
(And you had better believe I will be buying lots when it's ready!)
She phoned me today and left a message on my answerphone. The yarn is ready. They have named it 'Ellen's Purple Poetry Phase'. But it gets better: they like it so much they are going to KEEP the design for their in-house yarn range. Including the name.
That's RIGHT people! THERE IS GOING TO BE A YARN NAMED AFTER ME!
This is quite possibly the coolest knitting thing ever to happen to me.
(And you had better believe I will be buying lots when it's ready!)
Sunday, December 09, 2007
New knitting group, and Christmas
So I'm making fairly good headway on the Christmas knitting. Some of it may even be with people in time for the new year. Seriously, I think this Friday afternoon (end of term- at last!) is going to be a Finish It Friday a-la the Pointy Sticks podcast. Why couldn't I just make big chunky Jayne Hats for everyone? I've made 3. It took me slightly less than 3 evenings to do so. Fortunately I'm pretty sure the knits will be appreciated (the people who I don't think will fully appreciate the knitting just don't get the more difficult projects made for them).
Before my Finish It Friday, though, I have at least two gooooood long knitting nights ahead- first on Wednesday, when my boardgame club meets, which means gaming and knitting simultaneously (I get more done than you'd think). Then on Thursday, I'm very excited as I've joined a new knitting group- one of two at the same place.
Knitting groups are a new thing for me- I've been to the odd knitting-at-the-cinema session and the like, but this is the first time I've felt really truly part of things. First up was Kniterati, a knitting book group- whether I'll finish the next book in time for our meeting I don't know, still it's good to broaden my reading horizons a little, and the people are nice. Also, there is cake. Never underestimate the lure of cake.
Thursdays are now going to be a proper Knit Night for me, as there's a lovely group of folk at I Knit London meeting now every week. It was my first night on this Thursday just gone, and lucky for me, there were three other newbies at least. I had a blast, and got a LOT of my Father In Law's Christmas present made (which I shall be entering in the Socktopia Christmas contest in due course). I was the only person working from a pattern, it seemed- all the others were writing down what they did as they went along and trying to remember what they'd just done. My socks were admired, and in fact rescued- one of the others spotted a teeny tiny dropped stitch, which of course meant I could rescue it in time. Also, when asked what the yarn was, I gave the name (Fleece Artist Basic Merino Socks- yuuuummy!), and the girl next to me picked it up and said "in Ebony!". Colour me impressed- I had to look it up on Ravelry to remember the colour name.
There's just one drawback with going to the I Knit London group regularly. It's in the I Knit London Shop! How am I supposed to stick to a yarn diet when there are so many beautiful things all around me? It doesn't help that they have maaaany gorgeous colours of Kidsilk Crack, and the Winter Knitty is now up with absolutely THE most beautiful pattern I've seen using said yarn- Ice Maiden. OMG serioulsy. I WANTS it.
Finally, a quote from my fiance- upon seeing me tidying my UFO shelf, looking up at my yarn from my position on the floor and smiling happily.
"You look like you have a baby."
Before my Finish It Friday, though, I have at least two gooooood long knitting nights ahead- first on Wednesday, when my boardgame club meets, which means gaming and knitting simultaneously (I get more done than you'd think). Then on Thursday, I'm very excited as I've joined a new knitting group- one of two at the same place.
Knitting groups are a new thing for me- I've been to the odd knitting-at-the-cinema session and the like, but this is the first time I've felt really truly part of things. First up was Kniterati, a knitting book group- whether I'll finish the next book in time for our meeting I don't know, still it's good to broaden my reading horizons a little, and the people are nice. Also, there is cake. Never underestimate the lure of cake.
Thursdays are now going to be a proper Knit Night for me, as there's a lovely group of folk at I Knit London meeting now every week. It was my first night on this Thursday just gone, and lucky for me, there were three other newbies at least. I had a blast, and got a LOT of my Father In Law's Christmas present made (which I shall be entering in the Socktopia Christmas contest in due course). I was the only person working from a pattern, it seemed- all the others were writing down what they did as they went along and trying to remember what they'd just done. My socks were admired, and in fact rescued- one of the others spotted a teeny tiny dropped stitch, which of course meant I could rescue it in time. Also, when asked what the yarn was, I gave the name (Fleece Artist Basic Merino Socks- yuuuummy!), and the girl next to me picked it up and said "in Ebony!". Colour me impressed- I had to look it up on Ravelry to remember the colour name.
There's just one drawback with going to the I Knit London group regularly. It's in the I Knit London Shop! How am I supposed to stick to a yarn diet when there are so many beautiful things all around me? It doesn't help that they have maaaany gorgeous colours of Kidsilk Crack, and the Winter Knitty is now up with absolutely THE most beautiful pattern I've seen using said yarn- Ice Maiden. OMG serioulsy. I WANTS it.
Finally, a quote from my fiance- upon seeing me tidying my UFO shelf, looking up at my yarn from my position on the floor and smiling happily.
"You look like you have a baby."
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