Blanket Update

I finally attached a few more pieces to my sample blanket. The big brown rectangle on the left is Blue Faced Leicester. The white square above that is ingeo. The green rectangle waiting to be attached is knitted from some of my hand dyed yarn. It should have more lables on it right now, but I tried making some different ones and them put it in the wash to see how it would hold up and it dissapeared! I just can't find it now. Maybe the washer destroyed it, but that would seem a bit odd. My clothes from that load were fine. :) I guess I'll just have to make more lable and hand wash them.

Etsyfast Sample Bags and ACEOs

The Etsyfast Sample Bags are now for sale in the group shop. http://www.etsy.com/shop.php?user_id=5068591

The pictures look great! I really wish I could have contributed more to them. They just have my business cards.

There is also the June ACEO Challenge (ACEO = Art Cards Editions and Originals). They are small collectible pieces of art.
To find ACEO's by FAST's fiber artists, search tags and titles for "ACEO" and "EtsyFAST" or look at the shop's favorites.

Mine are here: http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5944531
http://www.etsy.com/view_listing.php?listing_id=5749690

I'd like to make another, but June looks like it will be a really busy month offline.

Blue and Green Socks

I finally finished weaving the ends in on these socks. I like the stripe pattern but I don't like weaving in ends. You may notice that the stripes are different. I shortened the pattern on the second sock because I was running out of green. These are stash socks. I'm trying to use up some of what I have before I buy and make way more yarn. I carried the yarn on the inside for the shorter stripes to make it easier and avoid more end weaving. The very top stripe is my new washing code: xxxoxxxo. The blue o's are on the purls. I like the one row code much better as I don't have a thick spot in my socks now.

Newest Yarn Today

I like the look of yarn with beads on it. Here is my newest yarn. I spun beads onto a single and then plyed it so they wouldn't move around. This one will be available in my shop after it dries. (You can see the beads better if you click on the pictures)

Newest Yarn

My newest yarn is a custom order.

Too many movies?

Maybe I watch too many movies, but I watched "Blood Diamond" tonight. I need to find some comedies. That was too violent for me, and horribly sad.

So if anyone is thinking about getting me diamond jewelery (ha), I want man made diamonds. You know, the organic ones. Good luck finding organic gold to go with it though. :p

Hope you get my joke!

Roving :)

I bought some roving. It is so fun to get those packages in the mail and to open them and watch the roving expand as I pull it from the box. I have so many ideas for what to make! Which color do you like better?

"The Corporation" the movie

I watched the movie The Corporation tonight. I had heard a lot of good things about it and wanted to see it. While it did have a few good points it spoke in absolutes, had many strange and pointless comparisons and was improved upon by watching the rest of it in fast forward with captions. As soon as Michael Moore showed up in the movie, its credibility was tarnished. It was like a flag to look for the really bad and misleading editing. After the movie I did check our milk and was relieved that it does not have that hormone in it.
It was rather frustrating to watch the people pointing out the horrible things that these corporations did using some of the same misleading tactics to say what they want. To sum up the movie, corporations are sharks (picture of shark included in movie). It's too bad they kept distracting the viewer from their own points and boring them with clips of people going on and on and not always being relevant.