iki knits

Sunday, June 24, 2012

Been a while

So its been a while.

What have I been up to?

Sewing things mostly.

I made this nice square Pom Pom scarf and a few hair-scarfs/headbands.

I also convinced 2 of my friends to model them for my etsy shop. Don't they look cute.

I've been doing art/craft fairs. The next one will be in July on the 22nd. Uptown has a market every Sunday and my friend Tiffany and I have done one so far.

This is a photo of my half of the booth.

Lots of cute stuff.

You may be wondering what happened to the sweater that I was trying to make in a month.

Well it turns out that I really should have done the Large.

While the medium, seen here, is pretty and my floats aren't too tight... its just too small.

I'm going to finish it. It is to pretty not to. But it looks like it may have to be given to one of my smaller friends/family. I hope they love it.

Wednesday, April 25, 2012

Progress

I've been trying to work on personal and shop stuff resently.

Here you see the progress I've made on the March sweater.

Though as I was working on it I noticed something.

A, that I had a helper and really need to keep my papers up.

(the yellow arrow)

B, that the written pattern and the photo on the pattern don't match up. It seems that the auther changed the pattern a bit after the sample was made.

(green arrow)

I get that some times you rethink things, but if you are selling a pattern, please make the photographs match the written pattern. People buy patterns because of the photograph. If you change a chunk of it, retake the damn photograph.

(hopping off soap box)

I finally started spinning Hoppers fluff.

It would seem that the "long draw" method is the best for his shorter cut 100% angora stuff. I think it will have a really nice halo when plied up.

Though i was thinking of plying it with some white Alpaca.

I've been continuing with the quilt block of the month too.

These are hexagon blocks. I think they turned out quiet well.

Also it would seem that blogger has fixed some of the things that annoy me about working with it. So i'll stick around for now.

Though there wont be much time for blogging. Art-A-Whirl is coming up and I'm going to be in a booth at the 331 club here in Minneapolis for 3 days. I need to make a lot more ties, handspun yarn, batts and maybe some knit toys before I'm ready to just sell my stuff for 3 days.

Wish me luck, or better yet, come and see me.