this is it blocking - still haven’t done the lace

hopeful is going well
and this is what I made while playing with the roving and felting needles sheena brought me

I saw Amanda Palmer (of the dresden dolls) doing a rather unrehearsed but great performance with lots of other people - among them the adorable [...]

is nearly done :)
It would be done if I hadn’t made the responsible decision that if I stayed up half the night seaming it I wouldn’t get up and go to work in the morning. I seem to be rather unusual in this but I actually like seaming, it’s like magic - you have [...]

After much rummaging through the wooden chest that used to be my toybox and is now my yarn stash I found it. Another ball of the exact same yarn I’m using for the corset pullover. I was so sure there wasn’t any more that I was looking for something that would go with it… [...]

You are Shetland Wool.
You are a traditional sort who can sometimes be alittle on the harsh side. Though you lookdelicate you are tough as nails and prone tointricacies. Despite your acerbic ways you arewidely respected and even revered.
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ok… i may be a little [...]

Pattern: Corset Pullover from Interweave knits.http://www.interweave.com/knit/TSC/corset_pullover.asp
Designer: Robin Melanson
Yarn: pretty variegated pale blue/ grey lilac (with random pink red and green bits). It’s about 4 ply weight, I’m guessing jumper weight from jamiesons of shetland. It was in with all the yarn I inherited from my grandad. Unfortunately in my eagerness to start this I [...]

Funnily enough I got sick of my red and white colour scheme kind of quickly. So I changed it (well I started changing it - I just need to re-colour the stylesheet now). What do you think? I’m not 100 % sure about it even though I bothered mocking it up and I liked [...]

I just compiled my rather daunting (mainly becuase this is the stripped down to the bare neccessities version) reading list for next year…
If anyone has copies of anything on it that they feel like selling or donating or trading for warm fuzzy items in aid of my education i’ll be very grateful (or any other [...]