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The power of a compliment

Those who’ve known me for a while know that I have a hard time accepting a compliment. I’m better than I have been, but I still have to work hard at not negating the compliment being given.

I’ve been working on a commissioned design for the last couple months. This weekend I attended the KW Knitter’s Fair, where I got to show it to the commissioner. Other people at the booth got to see it as well. Everyone was impressed and complimented me on it. One women got to try it on and that’s when people really liked it.

For me it was amazing seeing how well it was received and also seeing the finished piece on someone else. It really brought the design to life for me in a way that it hadn’t been before.

Now I’m stoked to get the photography sample for the pattern done!

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The pattern is with my test knitter, and if it all goes as planned the pattern will be available for the beginning of November.

Getting all that positive feedback this weekend is helping get this pattern through the home stretch. The hardest work has been done, now it’s doing all the last fiddly bits to get it ready for sale.

Thank you to everyone who gave me a compliment on this piece this weekend. It means a lot to me that you appreciated my work.

A little colour on a grey day

skeinIt’s a quiet, grey day here in Guelph. It hasn’t rained yet this morning, but it’s coming soon.

It’s been a couple busy weeks since the last post.

I’ve finished my spinning certificate class and had a blast with it. Last week was spent getting my homework in order and working on a commissioned pattern. That  pattern is coming along very nicely. I just have a few tweaks left and then it’s off to the test knitter this Friday. I’ll be getting the yarn for the pattern sample soon and I’m really excited to start working with it. It’s a new yarn to me and looks and feels amazing.

I thought I would post some pictures of the dye experiments we did in my spinning class. This year was dyeing with fibre reactive dyes and creative dyeing techniques. These were all a blast to do, but it got pretty hectic having twenty people all dyeing at the same time. We managed and thankfully no spills or accidents.

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5 Counties Seminar Teapot Challenge – Mitred Square Scarf ideas

detailIn my last post I talked about the 5 Counties Seminar that is coming up in September.

I’ve picked out the fibres that I’ll be using in the scarf and have done some sampling of the first group of fibres. These will be the main colours in the scarf, with the second group of fibres being the accent colours.

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A quick update from Haliburton

june_30_bobbin2Evening everyone. I’m having a blast here in Haliburton taking my class.

Today is Day 4 of the Tour de Fleece. So far I’m on track – I’ve spun at least 30 minutes each day and am still going strong!

I brought along the BFL / Silk batts from The Cupcake Fiber Company to spin during my trip. This is in the picture above. The bobbin on the wheel is the second bobbin. The remaining fiber for the second bobbin is on the right hand side of the box. The first bobbin is in the box and it’s remaining fibre is on the left side of the box.

Day 1 – Corespun 60g of fibre (1 bag) of the fibre for my guild spinning challenge
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Day 3 – Spun 4g of the BLF / Silk batts onto the second bobbin

There is 4oz of the BFL / Silk left to spin. I’ll be working on one of the balls for the first bobbin for most of this week. It will probably take about 6 – 7 hours to spin up each ball.

Have a great week everyone and talk to you all on Thursday.

Blogathon Word Cloud Day and a little on next weeks fun!

wordcloud_8_fullWords, words, words. Today is all about words in a pretty picture.

It’s been a really interesting month. At the start I didn’t know if I would be able to finish this. Here I am though!  Finish line!

I’m looking forward to the next month with the Tour de Fleece and working on other projects.
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Next week Van and I are going up to Haliburton School of the Arts to take courses and have a little vacation. I’m taking one on business for artists and Van is taking one on travel and landscape photography.

The school is a great place and has many great classes and teachers. This is where my spinning certificate program is held at the end of August. It’s going to be a different experience going to this class. Normally there are only two classes going on when I’m in my spinning class. It’s us and a group of kids. The place is pretty quiet! It will be interesting being there when there are so many other classes happening.

Catching up with the past

chs_sideI’m finally working through my backlog of old pattern designs that haven’t been published.

Most of these were started in 2008 – 2010, but they never got to the stage where I could put in enough time to get them finished.

I’m getting them test knitted and tech edited over the next couple months. The plan is to try and release one or two a month starting in August and get them all out by the end of the year.

In the mean time I’m working on a couple new designs and I hope to finally get some of the sweaters I’ve made written up. The sweaters are going to be interesting, as I haven’t written a pattern for one before and getting all the different sizes will be a challenge. I figure after the first one is done things will be easier.
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I also have a couple articles and patterns that I’m trying to get published in magazines. We’ll see how those turn out as I hear back from the editors. Crossing my fingers!

Here is a sneak peak of some of the new patterns coming up.

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Just keep spinning, just keep spinning…..

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I’m participating in the 2013 Tour de Fleece! This is my first year for the event, so I’m going in on the white coloured Rookie team.

The Tour de Fleece was started by Star Athena back in 2006. Since then it has been hosted by several people and eventually found a home on Ravelry.

This year, the Tour de Fleece starts Saturday June 29th and runs until Sunday July 21st, 2013.

Guidelines (NOT RULES):

* Spin every day the Tour rides, if possible. Saturday June 29th through Sunday July 21st. Days of rest: Monday July 8th and Monday July 15th. (Just like the actual tour.)

* Spin something challenging on the challenge day (usually the toughest high mountain stage: this year, it’s Stage 18, on Thursday, July 18th, when they climb Alpe d’Huez twice).

* Wear yellow on Sunday July 21st to announce victory. Why not wear yellow on any day you feel particularly successful? (Yellow is the color of the race leader in the Tour – but here we are all ‘race leaders’)

* Other colors if desired: Green (sprinter – think FAST), Polka-dot (climber – as in uphill), and white (rookie)

I know I have a lot going on next month, so I’m trying to set some reasonable goals. I’m going to be traveling, so some of the spinning may be done on drop spindles.

My main goal is to spin between 30 and 60 minutes each day.
Sub-goals:

  • finish spinning 2-ply lace yarn for lace study group, completed 1.6 of 6 ounces of BFL/Silk blend
  • finish spinning corespun yarn for guild spinning challenge, completed 60g of 300g of various fibres
  • spin up art batt from spinning seminar, approx 2oz
  • wash small merino fleece from Ted Myatt

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Optional sub-goals:

  • start spinning Bombyx silk from Sericin Silkworks for shawl project, 2 oz.
  • start spinning Tussah silk from Chasing Rainbow Dyeworks for shawl project, 2oz or 4oz.
  • spin up exotic blend batts from Sericin Silkworks
  • card white Shetland fleece
  • card merino fleece

I’ll post about my progress in the tour once each week or more if I finish something really nice.

Wish me luck!