2008 July « Stringcat Knits!

The Red Sox, a Knit and Crochet Show, and More Stash

July 28, 2008 at 12:45 pm | In Knitting, Uncategorized | 4 Comments
Tags: bag, baseball, button, crochet, knit, knit and crochet show, Knitting, pattern, Ravelry, red sox, stash, yarn

Last Friday I went to a Red Sox game with my family! I don’t know too much about baseball, but it wasn’t a very good game for the Red Sox. They lost against the Yankees. I do have some nice pictures from the game though.

David Ortiz

It’s Fenway Park!

More pictures!

The Citgo sign

And on Saturday I went to the Knit and Crochet Show in Manchester, NH!

There was a Ravelry meet up there! I met Jess and Casey. There were a lot of Ravelers, but not as many as the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival. Jess was giving out stickers! It was a lot of fun!

There’s Jess and Casey wearing green.

All the Ravelers around the buttons

The stickers

The show was pretty big. Lots of vendors were there. Habu was one of them. I had to buy four cones (2 oz.) of the Silk Stainless yarn to make the new Sea Tangles sweater from the Knitty surprise. I also bought a skein of laceweight cotton because it was so soft. :) Another vendor had Lornas Laces. I bought 2 skeins of sock yarn from them. What else did I get… Hmmm… there was a skein of Malabrigo Worsted in Whales Road, 3 skeins of purple Noro Cash Iroha, and a pattern for the Woven Kimono Cardigan.

This is just some of the vendors

As we were leaving, there was a car right in front of us. It turned out that it was Jess and Casey from Ravelry leaving at the same time we were leaving. Weird, right? Now for the pictures fo my newly purchased stash.

A picture of everything

The Habu yarn

Lornas Laces in Edgewater and Franklin’s Panopticon

Malabrigo

Noro Cash Iroha

As of three days ago, I decided to collect buttons for my Ravelry bag. Right now they’re mostly buttons from Ravelry, but I’ll get more.

The bag

It’s Caturday!

July 26, 2008 at 5:17 pm | In Caturday | 1 Comment
Tags: cat, Caturday, kitty, mitties, saturday, thunder

It’s Caturday!

Those are my two cats, Thunder and Mitties. Have a happy Caturday! :)

Spirogyra… 1 of 2 (aka Finally! Knitting!)

July 24, 2008 at 2:31 pm | In Knitting, Spinning | 3 Comments
Tags: bfl, brown, FGF, fingerless gloves, gloves, KAL, Knitting, Knitty, lace, Ravelry, Spinning, sweater, yarn

Finally! Some knitting!

I know I haven’t posted any knitting on my blog yet. I’ve only had it 4 days…

Look I finished something! Or one something, at least. This is my Spirogyra. I’m knitting it for the Fingerless Glove Fanatics July KAL on Ravelry.

The group is called Fingerless Glove Fanatics right?

This pattern is so easy to follow! It’s fun to knit. The yarn is my own handspun Hot Chocolate spun with white merino, brown alpaca, white soysilk, and firestar sparkle fiber. This is actually only my second time knitting lace! I’ll have to knit more, I love the lace. It’s already July 24 ,so I probably won’t finish the gloves for this month, but I’ll finish them sometime! Here’s a close-up of the stitch detail.

The firestar makes it sparkle so much!

For anyone new to knitting fingerless gloves, I recommend this pattern. There’s no thumb gusset or fancy shaping. The shaping is achieved by simply changing needle sizes, and the thumb is made the same way. After changing to a larger needle size, you just slip some stitches onto scrap yarn for the thumb. The lace in this pattern is so easy too! The repeat is only 6 stitches and 10 rows, so keeping track where I was in the pattern was super easy.

Yes, this is my 5th pair of fingerless gloves, and no, I don’t want to stop knitting them. Small projects like gloves and hats are easy to carry around and are lightweight. No big and heavy sweaters hanging off of the needles. :)

I’ve been spinning too! Right now I have this yarn on my bobbin.

Ooh, the pretty colors!

It’s 4 oz. BFL from Spunky Eclectic in the grand opening color. I love spinning BFL. The fiber is shiny when it’s spun, and it’s so easy to draft! I’m trying to spin a fingering weight 2-ply yarn to knit a Tempest with. If I can spin enough of this yarn for the main color, I’ll spin 4 oz. of white BFL for the contrasting color. This is my first time spinning for a sweater, so I hope it comes out right!