Babette Blanket Progress

Size thus far: 28.5″ x 28.5″, with only the center five panels. This is going to be a whopper! It’s so pretty and soft that I was tempted to sleep with it tucked around me.
I found it best to seam with a whip stitch, working from front to back (or left [...]

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D-Day June 25

Breezed through the edits for Chapters 4 & 5; how much better the chapters seem than I remember! Now I’m balking at writing the Introduction. My mind reels at the task of reconciling lofty theoretical ambitions with the messy, 70 year narrative I ended up with.
The diss is a ramshackle house made of random materials [...]

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Hand-Dyed Yarn

Mixing different colors in Wilton’s and Kool-Aid is tricky! I tried a dozen different permutations, aiming for lilac (reddish purple) and periwinkle (blueish purple) for the Babette Blanket. The bit of yellow in some of the colors wreaked havoc, creating mauves and brownish pinks/purples. Next time I’ll look more closely at the [...]

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Deja encore — in green

Lest you think all I’ve been doing is buying yarn… I finished this a week or two ago. The first one I made is here. This time, it’s the same length as the French Girl Deja pattern, but I made some adjustments to smooth out the neckline, and did a [...]

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Back from Oregon

The view from the front porch.
Ulysses and I visited his parents weekend. They live in a green, rolling landscape near Ashland, Oregon with their sweet old Labrador retriever, Joby.

Meet Joby. She likes to hug people by leaning against them.
On Saturday, I browsed through Websters in downtown Ashland near Lythia Park.  Great yarn selection, no [...]

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Goody Friday

Okay, it’s actually Thursday, but I’m taking off for Ashland tomorrow. Considered”Fiber Friday” but there are other kinds of craft related goodies, so…

Clockwise from left: Ice Blue Raspberry Lemonade, Lemon-Lime, Berry Blue, Slammin’ Strawberry Kiwi, Blastin’ Berry Cherry, and Pink Lemonade.
The Safeway & Albertson’s monopoly in the East Bay carries only the [...]

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OMG… Chapter 6 is done.

It’s 2:21am and I just printed it out.  47 pages.  I wrote 22 pages in about three days.  In other words, it’s a total hack job.  Really.  A mess.  But I am handing it to my advisor tomorrow morning.  He hasn’t had much work to do in terms of serious editing so far, so I’ll [...]

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D-Day June 10

Can you believe I’m still not done with Chapter 6? But I’ve written 13 pages since Friday, a total of 41 pages. Woo-hoo! It was due last Friday and I am so out of time. So I’m going to slash the two remaining my case studies (already have four, for goodness sake) [...]

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Babette Blanket — Here I Go!

I present my first batch of granny squares for the Babette blanket. The green section on the right is from the disastrous Wilton’s dye job a few posts back. I’m pleased that it has the same semi-solid effect as the recommended Koigu Premium Merino (KPM).

My squares initially came out slightly rounded. Since Woolease [...]

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Woolease Doesn’t Like to be Dyed

Sorry about no pics, but I had to put this on the record.  I take back almost everything I said about overdyeing Woolease.  Evidently with most colors it’s not a good idea.  I had tremendous success tinting dark rose heather with grape and black cherry Kool-Aid, but when I tried again today with several other [...]

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