Knitting in the Red Kitchen

tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-51018743781639813462024-08-30T06:22:26.593-05:00Knitting in the Red KitchenKadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.comBlogger117125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-20611969262136904132013-02-09T13:51:00.000-06:002013-02-09T13:51:04.315-06:00

Steve's Deathflake leggings—home stretch.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-77651723304118774062013-02-02T09:13:00.003-06:002013-02-02T09:15:30.786-06:00Bristlets

Blue Ridge Yarns Jubilee • color 19 Secret Garden• superwash Merino 400 yds Here's the MC yarn for Britt's wristlets (Bristlets).  Blue RIdge Yarns is new to me, but it feels wonderful and squishy/springy as a nice sock yarn should. The contrast yarn is yet to be determined.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-39359491279001203052013-02-02T09:02:00.001-06:002013-02-03T08:44:00.773-06:00Steve's Legs

I am still in love with Blue Faced Leicester, so when I found this lovely superwash it was an easy choice. This will be the  Deathflake leggings for Steve. I knitted a little gauge swatch and have cast on the ribbing. It's wonderful to run through my fingers and it should wear very well. A little progress.

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Dec 30 blue star hat. And this is what I came up with for the blue alpaca star. Koigu KPPM from the stash is knit in moss stitch with the main blue yarn in alternating rounds.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-79684450155120652432012-12-30T12:51:00.001-06:002012-12-30T12:53:35.000-06:00Some hats.

A tiny red hat in sock yarn. The start of another star hat. The first star hat. Meh. Mitered squares and bobbles. Louet Gems with Koigu KPPM accents. I wish I could remember what kind of yarn this is. Sock yarn for sure, and I kind of think I got it at the Sow's Ear.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-13453391446939878332011-04-04T14:06:00.002-05:002011-04-26T15:05:01.016-05:00

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-15503954835826880262011-02-15T08:49:00.000-06:002011-02-15T08:49:53.299-06:00Digital Swatching

Here's a way to keep track of projects in a digital archive. When I knit a gauge swatch, I arrange the swatch, the band or other tag that identifies the yarn and a tape measure on my scanner and take a scan. I now have a digital record of that yarn. I can tag the document (which can be saved as a jpg or a pdf, or placed in a Word document) with keywords like the yarn's weight, color, gauge, the

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-9613999800439529872011-02-06T17:55:00.000-06:002011-02-06T17:55:54.313-06:00

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-2719724022159117312011-02-03T17:47:00.000-06:002011-02-03T17:47:25.771-06:00necklet

Gauge = 4 inches/ 20 sts size 8s knitting Saphira from SWTC in k1, p1 rib. necklet unstretched = 12 inches Cast on 60 sts and join, knit 2.5 inches. Bind off 15 stitches, wor round keeping in pattern. CO 15 over BO stitches and continue in pat until necklet measures X inches. Bind off as stretchy as possible. knit and attach nose. add mustache fringe.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com1tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-74839598081061574532011-01-21T20:29:00.000-06:002011-01-21T20:29:57.965-06:00Eating for the Unemployed

What do you think? Would you read my unemployed eating blog? I have been away for months, and such goings on since I last posted! I lost my job AGAIN! Yup. Position eliminated. AGAIN.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-36924886906472273612010-10-12T08:52:00.000-05:002010-10-12T08:52:58.176-05:00Delicious white fiber...possibly corriedale cross?

Three hours of stupid television later...

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-81114965807725928642010-10-11T14:02:00.000-05:002010-10-11T14:02:17.134-05:00Daily fiber

On Sunday I took my wheel outside and sat on the stoop to spin.  Saturday night I stayed up way past SNL spinning. My neighbors commented that they saw me in the window spinning when they left to go out and I was still there after midnight when they came home from the bars.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-64062870940814738272010-10-11T13:45:00.000-05:002010-10-11T13:45:51.799-05:00A New Obssession

Kromski Prelude spinning wheel now residing in the Red Kitchen Meet Miss Kromski, my new spinning wheel. I picked her up Oct 2 after handing off three St. Bernards and a box of puppies in Black River Falls. The wheel came from Deb Jones' Fiber Garden studio in BRF. Oct. 2 transport to Black River Falls.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-28830599923691914982010-06-04T13:27:00.000-05:002010-06-04T13:27:44.071-05:00More Garden, Wherein Origins of Plants are Further Discussed.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-86438448531941876572010-06-04T12:58:00.000-05:002010-06-04T12:58:05.260-05:00The Garden at 403

It's my sixth summer at my house, and the gardens are starting to fill in. In fact, there's been so much growth that I have moved two plants that were being shaded and I'm contemplating moving a couple more. The bright pink roses are a result of wanting a rose bush RIGHT NOW when it was July or August, and just the random bushes were left. Last year I researched and bought five new roses--the

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-33954691935516291022010-03-07T13:31:00.000-06:002010-03-07T13:31:56.803-06:00Spring Cleaning

I am starting with my office, (which involves the living room because some pieces of furniture are moving there, and that will require rearranging the living room) and which also requires the sorting of all my yarn. (Well, maybe it doesn't *require* sorting *all* of it, but that's what I plan to do). I took a break to order the this steam mop, which I understand will ruin my hardwood floors, but

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-27688350199753493172010-02-17T12:53:00.000-06:002010-02-17T12:53:40.720-06:00Happy Birthday to Me

My present to myself turned out to be this enormous television, with which I can gorge myself on winter Olympics.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-52756625417092622232010-02-16T18:38:00.000-06:002010-02-16T18:38:49.898-06:00more ideas

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-27820288386560825342010-02-15T09:04:00.000-06:002010-02-15T09:04:10.218-06:00sweater ideas

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-4247742015881383282010-01-19T20:35:00.000-06:002010-01-19T20:35:48.184-06:00shocking, sickening images of haiti

follow this link to Getty, it's a search on editorial, news-only images from the last 24 hours, keyword haiti. the contrast is too much, and it perfectly exemplifies pop culture at its most despicable. photos of silicon-enhanced, b-list "celebrities" mugging for the camera at a gala fundraiser for haiti interspersed with photos from haiti: piles of rubble spiked with seven-days-dead corpses.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-48035682302489879742010-01-17T15:59:00.000-06:002010-01-17T15:59:00.799-06:00Mindfulness Based Stress Reduction. Introduction.

Today I attended the introductory session of the MBSR class I'll be attending for the next 10 weeks. I am honestly enthused about this, and I am not quite sure what to expect, and of course I had some preconceptions or at least projections, mostly about my fellow classmates. The session today was not with the group I'll be in during the session, as I'll be in fabulous Atlantic City for the intro

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-76825705940556074332009-12-29T08:50:00.000-06:002009-12-29T08:50:44.329-06:00

Christmas Eve day 2009 at Grandma's house.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-19672745542913095352009-12-20T21:02:00.001-06:002009-12-20T21:06:31.008-06:00Here come the holidays

Che will be joining us for Christmas in Iowa. Hooray! The Bee sweater took up so much of my attention that now that it is almost finished, I realized I haven't knit anything for Christmas. And there's not much time left. I have a scarf that I knit before the Bee started that is for mom. But that's it. Or the scarf might be for Britt and the Carmen Banana kit for mom. That still leaves a lot of

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-33080406672913383232009-12-18T19:43:00.004-06:002009-12-18T20:34:23.116-06:00Queen B

Oh Buzz, Queen B in the hive! The 40th birthday sweater is oh so close to being finished.

Kadyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/08168657311293702411noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5101874378163981346.post-75405127766690032132009-12-18T09:55:00.007-06:002009-12-18T18:45:25.571-06:00Back in the kitchen

A tiny tin bird inspired me to revisit my blog and here I am. Since we last met, I lost my job, found a new one, knitted many things, rearranged the furniture in the living room, turned the downstairs bedroom into an office and bought eight pairs of pajama pants for work. Kady left us in June 2008 following surgery for GDV also known as bloat or stomach torsion. The cancer did not get her.&nbsp

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