Fiber Musings – Page 14 – Random thoughts of a fiber enthusiast – mostly fiber related, sometimes coherent

There’s slow

On 21 May, 2015

and there’s sloooooow.

It’s baby season at the office and I ran out of my stash of grab and go baby shower presents. I picked up some fabric earlier in the week so I can whip out another mitered receiving baby blanket. From start (ironing the washed fabrics) to finish (sewing up a gift envelope) took over 2 hours. Definitely not a quick project. I guess I can take solace in the fact that it isÂ quicker than knitting one.

There’s at least one more shower that I need to prep for. Hopefully, last night taught me a lesson in starting early and not wait for the night before.

No pictures. Perils of last minute gift making.

Multnomah!

By Ann

On 13 May, 2015

In FO, Knit

Finally!

Months after I finished Multnomah, I finally wore it for the first time today.

Why? I had it draped on the back of the couch after blocking. Stormy immediately commandeered it as her couch “bed.”

Last month, I finally shooed her off the shawl, washed and re-blocked it…that was when I had found two snags/broken thread in the bound off edge.

It took me until this weekend to find the leftover yarn, un-pick back to the last broken thread, and re-knit the edge.

Upcycled Notebooks

By Ann

On 5 May, 2015

In General

I received the new Webs catalog in the mail. Just as I was going to drop it off in the recycle bin, I looked at all the pretty projects in the catalog and decided that they would make pretty nifty covers for some of my DIY Moleskine Cahiers/Field Notes knockoffs. They are pretty much smaller versions of my project notebooks.

Now, I have some pretty eye-candyÂ notebooks to capture more fiber ideas on the go!