Fiber-loving Fourth of July

DH and I were invited to spend 4th of July weekend with his brother and family at their resort condo in Longboat Key. We had a refreshing time relaxing, partying on the beach, shopping, and talking with loved ones in a place that is just short of paradise.

Early morning sunrise from the balcony

Beach at 9:30 AM

Majestic Norfolk pine in the landscape

Florida gulf coast beach

resort condo

Fireworks on the beach

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

I seized the opportunity to do some yarn shopping in nearby Sarasota.

A Good Yarn

A Good Yarn truly was The Mothership of all yarn shops. It was BIG, stocked full of all of the most popular, trending brands. Next to the front window was a work table, decked out with shop patrons who were calling for assistance from the friendly, outgoing staff. There was a large, comfy sitting area with “guy” magazines, for those patrons who don’t get all that excited about yarn. I had ordered Rowan fine tweed and felted tweed from an online vendor, but they were sold out of two of the colors that I needed for a Martin Storey project. But I couldn’t remember offhand what those two colors were, although the cute young clerk located the pattern book for me and allowed me to browse through it. “Don’t worry,” she said, “you can figure out what they are when you get home and then order it from us!” Awesome to know that they do a great mail-order business, too.

The shop owner is an underwater photographer, and on one wall, they have a selection of yarn in color ways that match the several photos of marine life framed above the skeins. Here’s a shot of the damage I did (to my bank account) while I was there.

yarn haul

We have here, clockwise from left: CoBaSi (cotton, bamboo, silk blend sock yarn that doesn’t sag and bag like cotton alone would) by HiKoo in orange and blue; Lorna’s Laces Hand-dyed Shepherd Sock in U of F; Lorna’s Laces Hand-dyed Shepherd Sock in A Good Beach (they said it was in the colors of nearby Siesta Key Beach, white, light orange, sandy gray);HiKoo American Brand fingering weight yarn in Wind Cave (white); Rowan fine tweed in Tissington (orange); Rowan felted tweed in 178 blue; fine tweed in Bainbridge (dark red); Anzula Hand-dyed Sebastian (70% super wash merino, 30% sea cell) in Hyacinth; Madelinetosh Dandelion (merino/linen blend) in Midnight Pass; and at the bottom, Hand Maiden 100% silk in Rumple (metallic grays.) The bags are decorated with logo stickers and scraps of yarn, by students at a local school.

I also stopped in at Picasso’s Moon, a Sarasota yarn shop/antique shop.

Picasso’s Moon

art yarn from Picasso’s Moon

Owner Debra Lambert spun this yarn on a Mach III wheel with a large orifice. She is set to give a workshop on spinning at Towles Court later this month. The shop is (as the yarn tag indicates) an eclectic collection of fibers and antiques arranged in sort of a giant web of skeins and scarves, shawls, bowls and baskets of old wooden spools, balls of yarn, decorative objects, hanging garments, and in the center of the room sat Debra on the floor, weaving on what looked to me like a little Cricket loom. Nearby was a beautiful, compact Schacht loom warped with a very fine, black yarn. I learned that art yarn such as this is VERY pricey, but I was under a spell, taken into the gypsy mystique of fiber artisanship, an alter ego I once vaguely sought for myself…some day, I want to delve deeper into the fiber arts.

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Wednesday Night Extended in Time, Space, and Scope

Knitting getaway side trip: who did I find?

Tina!

Wonderful to catch up and talk about old times. What a beautiful little corner of the world she calls home now! I knew that I’d take a road trip up here some day! I keep up with her through Facebook, but it doesn’t compare to a hug and a face-to-face catching up session….and look, aren’t we color-coordinated in our orange and blue!

We took the opportunity to visit Tina’s LYS, Warm ‘n Fuzzy in Cary, NC.

Cary NC LYS Warm ‘N Fuzzy

Ashworth Village Art Shops

Our lunching spot

This beautiful old church was across the street

Luscious fibrous finds

Clockwise, from top: the blue-green-yellow is 100% merino Tweed Dragon Fly from local Echo View Fiber Mill in Weaverville, NC….the peach-brown ball is Wolle’s Yarn Creations Color Changing Cotton in Copper 2 Colorway, from nearby Virginia….the next group is by Quince&Co. Owl in Papuan color way: American alpaca/American wool, Piper in Sweetwater and Caracara:Texas Merino/Texas mohair, and Kestrel: 100% organic linen in Rosehip color way…and the blue and white fingering Phydeaux Soie merino/silk in Blue Moon. Thank you to the young lady shopkeeper who was very knowledgeable about the local yarn scene!

The next day, this scene was pandemonium with the Food Truck Rodeo “Chatham Street Chowdown” going full-tilt.

Food Truck Rally

Mini-Donuts

La Farm Truck

Baguettaboutit

Chai Tacos

Sōl Tacos

Baton Rouge Cuisine

Gussy’s Greek

Stuft

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Everyone Likes a Good Yarn

a pretty good yarn

I had an opportunity to partake in a yarn of a different sort yesterday, at the Family Folklore workshop here at our local public library.

I got into the workshop a bit late, forgetting that the gators had a home game, so downtown Gainesville was a traffic nightmare. The first presenter was a lovely young woman who is involved in the Samuel Proctor Oral History Program at UF. Her talk was interesting and comprehensive, giving ideas to record family history interviews for fun and posterity. She left us with an informative “Cheat Sheet” for planning and carrying out our own projects. I can’t wait to start on one!

Next, Elise LeCompte, a registrar from the Florida Museum of Natural History, gave a presentation about Preserving Your Family Heirlooms. Having several years of experience at the museum, she has been able to see how time and environmental factors can damage artifacts, especially those made of organic materials. She showed the correct ways to store beaded items, textiles, costumes, leather goods, wood, and other goods you want to be in good shape years and decades from now. Her information was enlightening in good and bad ways, as I can see how I’ve neglected some heirloom items and want to quickly repair my mistakes! I can attest to her warning that the cost of restoring things can be very expensive: my brother recently received back a proposal from a company he wrote to, regarding restoration of a poster our dad got as an employee of NASA in the 1970’s, and the cost of their high-tech fixes was in the $thousands! LeCompte brought samples of inert storage materials that she recommends for storing and displaying articles. She will make herself available to give free workshops to groups who want to learn more about preserving heirlooms. She said her favorite presentations are those in which people bring in articles and request help and advice for keeping those items in the family for years to come.

Sylvia Ashwell, the genealogy librarian on staff, and the moderator of the workshop, gave a presentation about local family history research sources in the library, and about premium family history web sites available to the public while on the premises. Links to family history sites such as National Archives are available on the library’s main web page under the link Research: Genealogy.

Robin Rossi, a local public relations spokesperson for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, gave a presentation on https://familysearch.org, the church’s free online family history web site. Also attending the workshop was the director of the local LDS Family History Center, who stayed to answer questions about microfilm ordering, location of the center, free use of the 15 or so premium family history websites while at the centers.

Next on the agenda was a real, live story teller, Sarah Eiland, AKA Sunshine Badger Woman. She told us a bit about her upbringing and the formulation of her storytelling philosophy and development of her craft. Having worked as a teacher, she knows kids and is concerned about some of the violence and bullying that goes on in schools. She sees storytelling as a framework to amend social problems. “How can we move forward if we can’t remember our past,” she asks. She brought a scrapbook featuring creative pages that tell stories about her life, her likes and dislikes, things she values. She told three colorful stories about her family, evoking vivid imagery and emotion. Check out her web site story crafts.net for more information.

A great yarn-y day!

Sketch of Sunshine Badger Woman as she spoke in the workshop. Normally I would have taken a photo, but a sketch just seemed to go with the creative theme today! 🙂

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Fiber Blending Fun Day

I went to a fun-filled workshop at our LYS Yarnworks, dubbed a Fiber Blending Class and taught by Ginger Clark and Jane Dominguez of Ewephoric Fibers. It was offered through the Gainesville Handweavers Guild.

The aim of the class, which served 7 or 8 pupils, was to make a 2-ounce batt of blended fiber for spinning or felting. We discussed what our yarn would be used for–knitting, weaving, felting? What might be the final article, socks? A wall hanging? If spun into yarn, what weight will it be? Do you want the yarn to be self-striping? Tweedy? Do you want all the colors blended into one cloud of fiber, or a color mix “frosted” with another?

They brought a cache of all sorts of fibers–a yarn-addict’s dream come true–and let us plunder through it and choose the components of our own future batts. Merino, Blue-faced Leicester, alpaca, silk tussah, soy silk, nylon (called Fake Cashmere), bamboo, Tencel, they brought a treasure chest full. We tried not to get drool on the swatches as they were passed around.

I ended up with this mix:

1 oz BFL, .4 oz burgundy locks, .2 oz yellow locks, .4 oz red, white and blue silk hankie

Jane showed us a color wheel and talked about color relationships but summed up by saying all we really need to remember is “mostly, some, and a little” and that batts can be a mix of colors or one color made from many colors blended together.

Once the fibers were weighed, and we conferred with and deferred to Jane as to how we wanted the final product to look and behave, we then brought our fibers to Ginger, who was stationed outside with a picker to do a first-line pulling-apart and blending of them. The picker, as one student observed, resembled a medieval torturing device. Ginger spent quite a large percentage of the time talking about what could go wrong if you didn’t pay very close attention to safety protocol while being anywhere near the picker.

picker

Ginger picking

After the fibers were combed by the picker, then they went through one of several drum carders on the premises. Since my choice of fibers were all four fluffy, as opposed to some shiny or flaggy, I was privileged to use the only electric carder. I did have the silk hankie that was cut up and used for flags in some batts, but mine was all fluffed in the preliminary picking, so it wasn’t as choppy and therefore sent to the manual drum carders as others’ silk hankies were.

electric drum carder front left

Jane helping a student

my final rolag

inside view of the batt

It was a blast! But not a breeze…you really work to get a batt you’re happy with. Thanks for a fun and fulfilling afternoon!

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4KCBWDAY6 Coveted Tool

PVC Loom

It’s not that I have a burning desire to get a loom, something that will take up lots of space in my already limited crafting space and time. I do want to learn to weave some time, but right now I see a loom of any description and I think….how? Why? What? Weaving is the “final frontier” for me in the fiber arts galaxy.

And then there’s the Babe spinning wheel, also made from PVC pipe.

Babe Pinkie

Some people think PVC pipe is an ugly interloper in fiber crafting, much inferior to turned and worked wood. I do love sumptuous wood and the wonderful Lendrum wheel. But to me PVC is flirty, like a firefighter centerfold. And the thought of being able to build something functional out of materials you can get at the hardware store? I think I want to give it a try sometime. And I can’t forget this DIY drum carder out of PVC pipe and other stuff.

These pics came from The Woolery website. The day’s blogging prompt is from Eskimimi Makes.

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Knitting away the August heat

What does an August evening in the middle of the week bring to you?

My DH decided to do some yard work, and I went to the gym, then stopped at Ilene’s Gator store to look at the Gameday Dresses they’ve been advertising. Yes, hard to believe as it may be, football season is beginning to blip ever-so-slowly but surely on our radar here in Gainesville. Watching Gators perform at the Olympics is a cool alternative at the moment! While sweat poured freely down my face and neck (Ilene keeps the door open and racks of clothing outside for you to fumble through) I was looking at the mesh inserts, the hemlines, and the absorb-ability of the orange-and-blue dresses with an eye for: how see-through will this be when soaked with sweat or rain? Will my underwear be visible while tromping through the stadium? How much of an idiot will I look like? — not, Will I? but How much? LOL

I left without buying anything, feeling ill, and took a long shower and got ready to knit. You can go under the knife and have surgery to stop excessive sweating. Never mind, you do not want to go to the web site that advertises this and get inundated by their tracking cookies so I won’t even present it here—but you know it exists. Me, I’ve gotten to appreciate sweating more and more, as long as I have a shower and a knitting project to cool off with afterwards.

My project of late is this Fun and Funky Shawl from the Spring 2012 Love of Knitting. They used 3 colors but I used 5 colors of the vast amount of yarn given to me by Billy and Joann.

I get by with a little help from my yarn-conscious friends!

This yarn is mostly acrylic, but has some cashmere and wool. None of the skeins, if they even had a label, list the yardage, only the weight. So it was a good guess to start out with the 5 different colors instead of 3! Then I started on a hat in Remix, a Berroco yarn made from recycled fibers of all sorts.

green in more ways than one, Remix

Ethel continued working on the purple and gray sweater from earlier this summer, and the Pima cotton/Modal lacy sweater in Knit Picks’ Shine, shade Cosmopolitan.

Sweater of Shine Sport Yarn

The pic does not do justice to the feel of this wonderfully soft, gleaming yarn!

Lois, Queen of Hats, worked on a hat in a neon-colored yarn.

Lois and day-glo project

Great for hunting season!

Although she didn’t sit in with the group, Lisa (remember Lisa?) did come by one day with one of those cute cupcake hats that needed a double-crochet ring of “icing” around it. She knitted the hat in chocolate brown with light green mint icing, with a pom-pom cherry on top. Adorable! See some patterns for cupcake hats on Knitting Paradise.

So, here it is August, with school and football season just around the corner! What are you up to?

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Wednesday Night Knitting goes to the Florida Fiber In

We knitters expanded our minds and boundaries, embarking on a little adventure September 16 & 17. Starting with a Friday drive to Windermere, we made our way to a temple session and met with friends from Gainesville who were in Orlando for other events. We dined at the world-renowned (to our world, anyway) Pollo Tropicale, feasting upon black beans, rice, sweet plantains, fried yuca, with guava barbecue sauce and Caribbean condiments, and guava cheesecake for dessert. Drawn like magnets hurtling along West Colonial to the Ocoee Tuesday Morning store, we managed to squeeze in some major shopping before closing time. Savory yarns, packaged roving, felting supplies and half-price QVC clothing were a few of the spoils we won and stacked up in the luggage slot in back of Tina’s van.

Auracania Chilean baby alpaca/silk from Tuesday Morning

Back at the Radisson hotel on International Drive, some of us settled into our room and the rest ventured on to the opening session of the 2011 Florida Fiber In, which had kicked off a few hours earlier. Dazzled by the array of colorful fibers at the vending booths, spinning apparatus, knitted and crocheted items, and brightly-dressed people with big personalities, we browsed and befriended.

natural center of the event, the spinning circle

drop spindle and fiber from Ewephoric Fibers

Several booths were selling drop spindles–some of these were plastic, some unfinished wood, and the high-end ones in birds-eye maple and other exotic, beautifully grained, polished woods, were priced at $35 a piece. I bought a package from Ewephoric Fibers, a Gainesville vendor, which included an unfinished wooden drop spindle, a generous amount of alpaca/shetland/border leicester roving, and a free lesson, which I opted to fulfill the following day since we were getting tired. Jane Dominguez added a complimentary herbal sachet to my bag, because I had spent over $20. I have a feeling that the introduction of the drop spindle is going to be a life-style changer for me, like the invention of the wheel was to cave women!

Souvenir bag was a mite small

Next morning, we dug into the conference for real. Ethel may have gotten in on the end of the first workshop, which was all about dyeing fiber. I got a front-row seat in a workshop called “Ply on the Fly” in which the presenter showed how to make yarn from roving, using one of those fascinating drop spindles. Her preferred method, called Navajo Ply, used the single ply everyone else seemed to know how to do, but added a step where the single strand twisted back on itself and added another ply to the yarn. I watched very closely and have misty, unsure memories of the process as yet. She said she drop-spins riding in the car, watching TV, just whenever. She showed us earlier a sweater she designed and made from Cherry Tree Hill sock yarns, the awesome Technicolor Dream Coat. The next workshop was “Toe-up Socks”–but I didn’t nibble since the room was pretty full and the acoustics weren’t that great. Trish brought along her knitting, and got some pointers from friendly and helpful people there.

I got my drop-spin lesson from the excellent Jane Dominguez. Why are we wearing hats, you wonder? Oh, the theme of the Fiber In this year was England, and they asked us to wear hats. Plus, it was a game day; the gators were playing Tennessee in Gainesville. Although a few people complimented my gator hat, Tina said she might have heard a few dissenting murmurs as I and my hat passed by.

Drop-spinning lesson from Jane Dominguez of Ewephoric Fibers

Final result: yarn!

I found another yarn store in Winter Haven I didn’t know about, called Four Purls. They had a fabulous booth at the Fiber In.

leather purse handles & yarn from Four Purls

We watched Rebecca Bowen, from St. Augustine, spin on her wheel, and I bought a couple of hanks of luscious Long Dog handspun roving from her booth Sunshine Knit Designs.

Rebecca Bowen

Silver alpaca/silk and purple merino Long Dog handspun

Bowen was one of the presenters of the Continental vs English workshop that Ethel and her friend Dale attended. Ethel met Dale on the Knitting Paradise online forum, and talked her into coming from east central FL to the Orlando conference. Tina also mentioned the Fiber In to a co-worker Chelsea, and we were delighted to see her there at the seminar, too. Maybe she will come and join us at Wednesday Night Knitting as well.

One of my best experiences was hanging out at the Funny Face Farms booth, watching Billie card wool, and learning the names of some of the loose fibers from Brennan.

Billie of Funny Face Farms, carding

this carding apparatus is for longer fibers

Fibers from Funny Face Farms

Magical merino/angora/Romney/angelina fiber blend

In the Fibers pic, the green and blue at the top are from Romney sheep. The light gray fiber at the upper left is locally grown (they are in Brandon, FL) Angora. The seafoam green fibers at the right are from Shetland sheep. The taupe and brown fibers in the lower right are alpaca. The curly green and orange ones at the bottom are from Wensleydale sheep.
A Fuzzy Farm had the booth in the back of the room, with the plastic drop spindles, weaving looms, silk scarves and hankies to be felted as Make and Take projects, and many treasures in the form of kits and raw and carded pouches of fibers of all descriptions. Proprietor Lorie McCombie warned that her kids are in charge of her web site and don’t always have it up to speed.

Fibers from A Fuzzy Farm vendor

Ethel and her friend went to the Japanese Short Rows workshop, and we left soon after that one, missing the last two scheduled demo’s by Ginger from Ewephoric Fibers in Gainesville. Lois and Ethel did spend some time at the spinning wheel with Jane’s husband Allan.

Lois with Jane Dominguez's husband (Ewephoric Fibers)

Tina learned to spin on a wheel, and made herself a little ball of yarn. We found spinners to be very friendly, straightforward people! I heard that the Ewephoric Fibers folks in Gainesville teach intensive spinning classes, and will loan out wheels, with a deposit of course, to those who take the classes that come with a guarantee: you WILL learn to spin!

Tina and the wheel--beginning of a beautiful friendship?

Showing off a Gator Sock

close up of gator sock, see the little pocket just above the gator head?

Lendrum spinning wheel

The gator sock lady had a Lendrum wheel, which she bought about 10 years ago, with attachments she sometimes never uses, for about $600. She said she was told that the Lendrum is the best choice for Florida because it is solid maple, and does well with Florida’s humidity. She said the Kromski wheel, another good brand, is made of a composite wood. She said if you’re thinking of buying a wheel and you see one advertised somewhere, GET IT because once the workshops and seminars start this time of year, they all sell out fast, and there are only a few spinning wheel makers around. I found some good info about wheels on The Woolery site.

one of many spinning wheels on site

We saw wheels of all kinds, shapes, sizes and ages. Someone said you can find patterns online to make a spinning wheel from a bicycle tire.

Tina at Ewephoric Fibers' booth

What a wonderful weekend with friends and happy times. Glad to get a little extra fiber in my life! 🙂

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Six months later…

Celebrating! Wednesday Night Knitting is 6 months old and the blog has had around 700 hits. It’s been fun, amazing, and addicting!
We’ve gained some new members, lost some, and one member replicated herself! Well, gave birth would be more of an accurate way to describe that…

We didn’t talk about that tonight, but we got a lot of knitting done!

Debbie with Debbie Macomber bag

Debbie, who has been gone for a good while, brought many treasures for us to look at. One was the big, roomy, functional Debbie Macomber project bag. Check out the Debbie Macomber web page for novels and knitting patterns.

Debbie's yarn all rollered up

Deb got one of those yarn roller machines; check out the photo of the finished ball.

the yarn counter gadget

She showed us a gadget that had a cutter, a counter, a removable crochet hook, some markers, and a pair of scissors inside. I’ve seen that gadget on sale at Yarnworks. And, she brought a bunch of new books for us to pore over, many of them about SOCKs.

Deb's books about socks, charity knitting, and one with intense blocks

Teresa knitted some fingerless gloves in Hanks’ Hoggetowne yarn. She said that Hanks is planning to close out their online store and begin selling on Etsy. They have the remaining goods on their site reduced 40%, so check out Hanks Yarn & Fiber to get a close-out deal and see what’s up with them in the future.

Teresa's Hanks Hoggetowne fingerless gloves in process

Ethel and purse body

Ethel worked on a purse which will have an I-cord strap. She started on the I-cord, decided it wasn’t thick enough, and then re-did it with a double strand, which was better. It will be felted and lined before it’s presented to a lucky friend! And, for all the wonderful hand-knit items she presented to kids she went to visit last month, she lost her camera and didn’t get to show us! :(. Maybe they will send her some pics!

Ethel helping Lois decide on a block to create

Lois looked over some of the new booklets and decided to start on an afghan block. I can foresee the afghan block replacing the dishcloth as the new “must-do” project. I finished [maybe] the Breathless wrap collar from Knit & Wrap by Nathalie Mornu, except for the fasteners. One oddity of the pattern was that it said “yf” (yarn forward) rther than “yo” (yarn over)–and I couldn’t find anything to say what you’re supposed to do in a yf. Finally my DH googled it and found that yf is the same thing as yo. Duh! Debbie suggested that I redo the binding and add another repeat to make it a better length, which I may do. That’s why it’s great to have a group: help, suggestions, reasoning things out, commiseration and sympathy when it goes wrong, and pro’s and con’s of Charmin, Scott, and Cottonelle Aloe toilet paper. And bringing to light a few little-known but fascinating casting-on and binding-off methods!

Breathless collar wrap

Ethel brought us some Scottish ginger biscuits, made in Poland, that she bought at the Europe store in Thornebrook.

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Knitting skin-deep beautiful

At Wednesday Knitting we looked at more little animals like Ethel’s rat

Ethel's rat

from Debi Birkin. Lois started off with a guinea pig modified to a hamster, but needed to refine the size of its head. Check out Birkin’s patterns; how lifelike! Ethel has also discovered the toymaking genius of Alan Dart, and bought his book to make some fun presents for someone…

Lois with hamster in progress

Lois is interested in several hat patterns Ethel found; stay tuned for a hat marathon at a future meeting.

Mmmmm--great ideas!

Meanwhile, Ethel tried out a pattern for a facecloth with the exfoliating fibers of hemp in the yarn. Skin-deep beautiful! However, she thinks the cleansing properties of the hemp will be further enhanced by using a cloth made in the Bee stitch. Nice and scratchy on the pores of summer! Yeah!

Exfoliating face cloths

I had to make another detour on Maelo’s sweater, but luckily Yarnworks had another skein of the Louisa Harding Kashmir DK or I would have been manic-depressive! Hopefully he will get to wear it eventually. 🙂 While I was there, I snagged some Debbie Bliss wool to make a felted project for next time.

Bob, blissfully kneading the Debbie Bliss wool/angora blend

It was rather expensive, but necessary to get the natural fiber so it will felt and shrink. I finished the Jilly doll from a kit that was included in Let’s Knit, a very fun and lively British knitting magazine I found at the Border’s in Provo. Although I’ve never been a fan of knitted toys and dolls, this one changed my mind because it was so easy (they advertised, “knit it tonight” but it took me 3 weeks) and it was like a game I felt drawn into playing. Why not? To keep the game afoot, you can go to their website and download a pattern for a purse for Jilly. We’re like a bunch of little girls with our little Jilly dolls! I like how they measured the strands of yarn so exactly and cautioned the reader “Make yarn ends as short as possible when casting on and casting off” or you won’t have enough yarn. I took this seriously and re-cast on each color about 20 times to make sure I had the shortest possible yarn end.

Jilly and kit from Let's Knit magazine

Tina loomed more stitches onto the [future felted] brown purse and pleaded, “Don’t take any more pictures of this!” She updated us on the kitchen remodel and said that the lowers were ready — cabinets, that is. We introduced Tina to the knitting icon Alice Starmore through some of her delectable picture books and through Adrienne Martini’s Sweater Quest. Ms Martini=always good reading. Ms Starmore=good reading and eye candy and dreams of someday being good at it (knitting!)

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