tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-370409282011-04-21T23:51:02.828-04:00and related dilletanteryKathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793689639005819519noreply@blogger.comBlogger21100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37040928.post-1164245894865187762006-11-22T20:16:00.000-05:002006-11-22T20:41:18.863-05:00Aside from the delightful picture of me with a chili dog, this is my first real blog post. To begin with, a little in the way of introduction. I do a lot of stuff. I wanted to start this blog to have a space to talk about things that I am obsessed with. At the moment, this means yarn and bicylces. Where yarn is concerned, I am a spinner and knitter. Where bikes are concerned, I am a rider and mechanic. This blog is dedicated to the furthering of those obsessions in myself and others. It will be big on colorful pictures and small on soapbox banter.<br /> Even as a child of the digital age, I'm often pretty stone-age minded. So in a way it's a little funny for me to be even thinking about having a blog, much less one about arts and crafts, a subject which falls a little more accurately on my internal calendar (think about 20 years slow). Plus, I have no idea how to make this damn thing do what I want it to do. <br /> But then again, I've always been the type to lean by doing (hence the aforementioned obsessions to begin with), so here goes!<br /><br /> At the moment I'm in the middle of, let's seee... one...two.... yeah, about a billion knitting projects. But one at a time. Here's some pictures of recently recycled yarn from two sweaters I bought for four bucks a piece at salvation army. No before pictures. They were pastel stockinette-stitch industrial turtlenecks. Pretty blah, but wow, the yarn was soft. Tiny-guage merino/angora blend. <br /> After spending a really inordinately large amount of time meticulously ripping seams and unravelling, here's what I had:<br /><br /><a href="http://static.flickr.com/102/303869798_80bb8bde75.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/102/303869798_80bb8bde75.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> Close to two pounds, and 3,000 yards of yarn!<br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://static.flickr.com/105/303869800_aab99e0b6c.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;width: 320px;" src="http://static.flickr.com/105/303869800_aab99e0b6c.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a> Then I soaked it<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/33347747@N00/303869804/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/107/303869804_2bc5a76e8b.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_1278" /></a> And dyed it<br /><br /><br /><br /><a href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/33347747@N00/303872347/" title="Photo Sharing"><img src="http://static.flickr.com/113/303872347_44e2385a92.jpg" width="500" height="375" alt="IMG_1305" /></a> And here's what I ended up with.<br /><br /> I hadn't expected it to be so varigated. As a matter of fact, I was worried that it wouldn't be varigated enough. I'm going to knit them doubled, one strand of each, for a really nice mottled effect. Soon I'll get up a picture of my swatch.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37040928-116424589486518776?l=wheelandneedle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793689639005819519noreply@blogger.com8tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37040928.post-1162519132511673872006-11-02T20:57:00.000-05:002006-11-02T20:58:52.513-05:00<a href="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7067/4152/1600/24594088860970s.jpg"><img style="float:left; margin:0 10px 10px 0;cursor:pointer; cursor:hand;" src="http://photos1.blogger.com/blogger/7067/4152/320/24594088860970s.jpg" border="0" alt="" /></a><br />this is me with a chili dog.<div class="blogger-post-footer"><img width='1' height='1' src='https://blogger.googleusercontent.com/tracker/37040928-116251913251167387?l=wheelandneedle.blogspot.com' alt='' /></div>Kathttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11793689639005819519noreply@blogger.com0