05.22.07
Knitting Frenzy
A knitting frenzy is what I’ve got going over here. Hot off the size 6 needles is a shawl knit with Debbi Bliss Silk Road. This will be winging it’s way soon to a place far, far away.
I could hardly wait to knit up these socks using the fabric I dyed on Sunday. Even though I’ve been making socks 
for over 4 years (hand knitting for 4 years, circular sock machine for 2 years) I am still kept interested by the process. For those of you who know me, think quilting, stamping, crochet….but socks have kept me interested for the past four years. I really like how the yarn turned out. The color wave is a bit noticable in places, not at all like those professionally dyed color wave yarns. But that is the attraction for me. I advertise each skein of hand dyed yarn as a one-of- a- kind work of art. These socks and yarn are called Celery. (maybe becuase I’m eating celery right now with peanut butter….see previous cruise post 
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I’ve been trying to figure out how to display the fingerless gloves when we vend. They just don’t show well laying on the table. Initially I contacted a local wood worker who said he would jigsaw out hands for me but I dropped that ball and didn’t get back with him. So last night, while laying in bed at 3 am listening to the neighbor dog howl, I go the bright idea to use foam core board. I traced my hands plus a bit so the gloves fit tight. Next I used some distressing ink to give the white board some ‘age’ and embossed the edges with platinum embossing power, (take note of the above comment re. scrapbooking) I like them! They do the job.
As a side note…we are very busy here at Connected by a Thread and if you have a special request, please feel free to email us, we take custom orders for bags, socks, yarn and fingerless gloves.. After our shows in June we will be restocking inventory.
It seems to be a requirement if you have a knitting blog you HAVE to post the occasional picture of a cat. So here is my monthly contribution to the kitty post requirement. Pumpkin doing his imitation of dead kitty.