Let me give you a little preview and whisper “OMG. Acrylic pens.”

Oh that is so fun to write!

For years I’ve been a huge fan of the company Moo, starting with their half-sized business cards. Just last week I got a new shipment of business cards. Half are yoga themed and half knitting-themed.

I love that I can use my own pictures on the front and add my details on the back and then I don’t have to order what feels like a million business cards, but get to order only 50. The quality is fantastic, which is why I’m recommending them and adding a referral link (if you buy I get credit in return).

Anyway, yay! I have new Moo-cards.

Inside I have everything I need, plus a little bag of beads for a project I am currently working on:

It includes

• Post-its and pen
• A needle gauge
• Scissors, child friendly ones that even go on airplanes
• Waste yarn
• A little box full of stitch markers
• Two crochet hooks for cast-ons and dropped stitches
• A cable needle for a current project
• A set of darning and weaving needles
• A tape measure

And in the top of the box is a little list of all the things that belong in there, including a spelling mistake. Anything that is not on the list gets, at most, a temporary home in the little box.

This system is the best I have come up with and indeed I have never needed more things. The size of the box makes me stick with the essentials and refrain from buying new shiny gadgets.

Now that I’ve showed you mine, I am curious what your’s looks like.

I still owe you a report from last weekends fibre festival:

I went on both day, Saturday and Friday, and taught workshops on both days. On Friday it was Ravelry for beginners and on Saturday a workshop titled “Forming Shawls and scarves.” Which was all about the math behind shawl forms and what you need to know to make your own patterns. It’s a lot of math and the workshop helped me flesh out some of the ideas that I was still a little fuzzy on. I’m thinking of making it into an e-book once I’ve sussed out all the details.

And then of course the festival was full of awesome yarn and people. I met some friends I hadn’t seen in a long time and we had great chats while knitting. What I was also very happy about is that Wollerey was a vendor at the festival this year. They dye fine yarns in very subtle shades and I was happy to buy a set from them. This was part of the plan from the beginning and I did well sticking to my diet of little yarn. One thing I impulse-purchased was a long turkish spindle. It’s very light, but has a long shaft so you can start spinning it on your leg, rather than twisting with your hand.

So all in all I had two wonderful days. I really look forward to next year and I’m sure I’ll be there with another workshop.

The pattern is wingspan. It’s shaped with short rows and is pure garter stitch. Once you’ve read through the whole pattern, it is easy knitting, but not boring, when you can watch the colors change, perfect evening knitting, as I watched a few last episodes of Babylon 5.

One day soon I’ll be knitting it with rainbow segments, I’m sure my friend Diana would approve. 

So I checked the drawer with all my scarves and found one more with a hole, a beaded lace scarf, and a wiggly little larva. Google told me that it is a carpet bug and that I could try freezing them out, or cooking at 60 degrees. Half my scarves are now in the freezer and the othe half spent an hour in the oven at 75 degrees. We’ll see how this continues.

My yarn and Etsy shop products are fortunately stored in air-tight plastic bags and clear containers, so I don’t have to worry about new stuff getting infected.

Ooh exciting! (for me at least) I get to share something finished with y’all today. In 2011 I bought a whole bunch of spinning fibre from Christine at Dornröschen Wolle I finished spinning the first one last night on my 28g Cascade St. Helens spindle and chain plied on my homemade big bertha spindle. All in all I got out 340 m of fingering weight yarn at 130g fibre.

Ravelry ist die weltweit größte Online-Strickcommunity. Ravelry hilft dir mit Strickenden in deiner Stadt, oder mit gleichen Vorlieben zusammen zu kommen um dich auszutauschen, ebenso wie das richtige Pullovermuster zu finden.

In diesem Vortrag zeige ich euch die Grundfunktionen die Ravelry bietet, gezielte Suche in Muster- und Garnverzeichnis, einstellen von eigenen Wollvorräten und Projekten und Freunde und Strickgruppen finden.

Ob Dreieck oder Rund, Tücher gibt es in vielen Formen. In diesem Workshop wollen wir uns systematisch die verschieden Tuchformen als Basis für eigene Musterentwürfe erschließen. Ebenfalls gehören Sichelformen und klassische Shetlandtücher dazu. Elizabeth Zimmermanns pi-Shawl wird auch nicht fehlen. Ergänzt wird das ganze durch die passenden Anschläge. Du wirst im Workshop verschiedene Formen ausprobieren können.

Im Workshop enthalten ist ein Handout um das Gelernte später nachzuvollziehen.

Voraussetzungen: Links und rechts stricken, Maschenzunahmen stricken können ist vorteilhaft
Material: Garn in Sockenwollstärke, Nadeln in Größe 3-5 mm, evtl. eigene Musterideen