#Beautiful Trellis yarn

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Silly Mistakes We Make

I had all the pieces crocheted and ready to assemble on the Beautiful Trellis Yarn poncho that I was making, laid it out quickly and started seaming at my Thursday knit group.  When I had it all together, I held it up to admire my work and discovered my mistake.  Instead of a poncho, I had a Mobius with 2 twists - creative but not the look I was wanting.!!!  Now that offending piece of crocheting went back in my bag in a flash and I went back to knitting a hat.  The next day, I picked out one seam, flattened out the poncho, and corrected my mistake.  I’m very pleased with the finished product and hope to get a picture of it soon so I can share the end results.

Today I started out on a new adventure inspired by one of the tassel making videos that I watched.  The instructor was salvaging beads from clothing - mainly bugle beads and seed beads.  The last time I was in the local thrift store I noticed some beaded clothing in the Halloween costume section so I headed out early this morning to take advantage of their 50% off sale.  I came home with a long blue dress heavily beaded with blue bugle beads, white seed beads and lots of sequins - blue and silver.  I quickly learned that it was much easier to remove the bugle beads than the seed beads.  The bugle beads could be removed by simply snipping the treads on the back and unraveling the thread.  Now the seed beads are much more difficult to do and I’m still seeking a better solution than anything I’ve tried so far. I’ve unraveled one and a half sleeves and have a large number of bugle beads to show for it so I think this may be a worthwhile experiment but I’m still not positive.  More on this later.

I also found a vertical wine rack that is on a sturdy turntable that I plan to repurpose into a bracelet display case for the craft fair next Saturday.  I need to find some dowels or rods to hold the bracelets.  I hope to have them organized as to sizes to make it easier for the shoppers.  The Craft Fair is from 9 - 2 on October 21 at the Regency Tower Apartments, 921 Green Star Drive, Colorado Springs, Colorado.  Public is invited and I hope that some of you can come.  If you come to my Kae1Crafts booth and mention that you saw this on Tumblr, you will receive a 10% discount on your purchases from my booth.

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I am in love with @nightowlfibers! I’ve got Rachel’s Tawny Owl Fingering in #bubblegumtrouble ready to create a beautiful trellis lace sweater dress! Don’t worry, there will be progress pics coming soon!! 💖💖

✨Yarn: Night Owl Fibers Tawny Owl Fingering in Bubblegum Trouble (100% Superwash Merino, 437 yards/100g)

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Monthly Yarn Sale: Galileo

Galileo, Galileo: my most favorite soft and silky yarn named after an Italian polymath! This yarn captures the brilliant shimmer of the night sky spun into luxurious fibers you can knit into some truly fresh and fantastic patterns. The best news? This month it’s on sale for 20% off!

I love the luxurious way this yarn drapes and flows, and it’s unique sheen is fantastic for displaying stitch, cable, and lace in crisp detail. Here are a few patterns that really know how to rock it in Galileo:

Trellis Vines Stole/Poncho

This beautiful lace stole is as versatile as it is beautiful!  Knit in the lovely violet tones of ‘Urchin’ this pattern can be worn as a stole or poncho with the addition of a ribbon.

Chilla

This unique pullover has a wide loose body that makes perfect use of Galileo’s amazing drape.  Shown in color ‘Gosling’ and with 3/4 sleeves this will make a luxurious and individualistic piece to add to your wardrobe!

Althea Clutch Say ‘goodbye’ to the stress of finding the perfect purse for your night out!  This clutch is cleverly designed using provisional cast ons and picking up stitches to create the clutch’s base.  Making this bag yourself means you can choose the perfect colors to match your fanciest duds!

  Piney Ridge Necklace And what wardrobe is complete without a stylish, unique necklace or two?  The Piney Ridge Necklace is as adorable as it is simple to construct!  Made of i-cord that splits and reunites, you can knit this piece to match anything you own, while step-by-step photo instructions will keep you on-track while you accessorize!

This sale is a great opportunity to create something luxurious at a bargain price!  At $3.99 per ball it’s too good to pass up, so head over to our Galileo sale page and check it out!

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Woodbury Geometric Light Gray Area Rug

Woodbury Geometric Light Gray Area Rug

Features Their high-quality texture of balanced thickness and softness addresses the needs of high-traffic areas. The technological beauty of their yarn creates an effect of extra density and dimension. This trellis rug is a wise option for a well-combined elegance and practicality. Initial creasing is normal and the creases will fall out within a few weeks. They advise reversing rolling to aid…

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Maybe I am an artist

Zora Neale Hurston once said, “I love myself when I am laughing, and again when I’m looking mean and impressive.”   I could safely say, “I love myself when I am playing with yarn, and again when I’ve finished a project and taken a picture of it to post on Facebook.”

Moving to the Oregon Outback, and Valerie’s adorable loft house, has loosed whatever constraints I’d had in DC on yarn binging. Or am I stocking up for my new career as a fiber artist?   Perhaps my yarn buying behavior is yet another one of my compulsions. The Cambridge English Dictionary defines compulsion as a very strong feeling of wanting to do something repeatedly that is difficult to control. So why control it? I see an ad for yarn, I get an email from Webs.com, I get a notification that someone has posted “a yarn for sale” picture in Yarn Hoarders Anonymous on Facebook. If its bulky yarn, or very reasonably priced… I’ve hit up paypal before I know it. Or I do know it and I do it anyway.

But is it a bad thing? Why must I pathologize my yarn buying? I love my yarn. It gives me great joy to order it, anticipate it coming, then open the package (that Paisley’s patient and kind postmistress has hauled to her counter). I deeply enjoy planning what I’ll make with it. Occasionally I’ll open it and go, bleh, not what I had hoped for, but that stuff will find a place and a purpose, too. Yarnbombing with many strands of yarn at once will reduce my supply…

I dream of projects. When I want to stop obsessing about a client, or about my most recent blood sugar, or whatever really stupid thing I said that day (Open mouth, Insert foot), then I plan a project as I drift off to sleep. Something in purple, the color I have the most of. What kind of baby blanket will I make for the Holy Brother’s daughter’s love child? What kind of stitch will best cover the irrigation half wheel that Valerie salvaged? I plan to make a half sun full of oranges, yellows, and white, with a little purple and green thrown in. It will be 3 feet in diameter, and hung from the fence. It will be my second outdoor decoration, after the July 4th crocheted flag I tacked to a folding rectangular trellis and hung on the side of the house.

Why should we all use our creative power?  Because there is nothing that makes people so generous, joyful, lively, bold and compassionate, so indifferent to fighting and the accumulation of objects and money.                                        Brenda Ueland

 Perhaps I am subconsciously planning for my next career, although I learning and growing in my current one. This ‘behavioral therapist’ business is hard work. Lake County is the redheaded stepchild of Klamath County, which is supposed to share resources with its sister county to the east. It’s also the mostly ignored second cousin of Deschutes County which is just to the north and full of resources, people, stores… it’s where most north Lake County residents go for banking, pharmacy and grocery shopping. Anyway, the impoverishment of Lake County is only one of the reasons this old social worker finds the work challenging. I think most therapists struggle with at least some cases. The multiple early traumas that my clients had to cope with, on top of the challenges of modern life and the dearth of jobs and housing, combine to lay waste the most resilient psyche. Not to mention the recidivism of “substance use disorder”, the newest official term for what was once called addiction.  I do get a surge of joy when one of the clients graduates from their 12 weeks of sobriety and I can report to the probation officer that they are CLEAN.  They were clean before I knew them, however; I take no credit.

Treat people as if they were what they ought to be, and you help them to become what they are capable of being.    

Goethe

 I have no business plan for my next career as a fiber artist. I had an Etsy store once, and spent a lot of money on photography equipment (a huge white sheet and nice lights with umbrellas attached) to take pictures of my accomplishments. Didn’t really work. Maybe I didn’t promote it? I thought my prices were reasonable. I sold more by just mentioning something on facebook than I ever did on Etsy.  

I don’t really care, although I suppose I should, whether I make money from my creations. It would be nice to recoup some of the expense of the yarn, which is really pricey, even when I buy from other yarn hoarders. (Maybe I should have sheep in the side yard, sheer them, prepare their wool, spin it, dye it… yeah? No.)  I enjoy seeing my work wrapped around a friend’s shoulders in winter. I missed seeing the smile of delight when Valerie’s niece opened up the box and saw two, washable, gorgeous if I do say so myself, baby blankets at her twin baby debut. That delight is my payment. I did get a nice thank you note.

What I really love is making the stuff. I love selecting the yarns, picking the hook or needle size, and going at it. I don’t follow patterns, although I do learn stitches from youtube. I make shit up. I know how to fit a hat, and even fit a sweater, without a pattern, although mostly I make scarves and afghans. People don’t wear nice handmade sweaters anymore. They are too hot indoors, and too much of a pain to take on and off. Hats and scarves make more sense, and in winter, a beautiful lap blanket totally helps when the fire is beginning to go out. I think so anyway. My family members, and Valerie’s, get knit stuff for Christmas and so far, no one has taken me aside and said, Jane, “We have enough hats to last the rest of our lives… maybe a gift card??”  I think they are too polite to tell me; I just hope they’ve passed the hat along to another cold noggin.

When I ask myself, what do I have to do each day? One answer is I must crochet or knit. My hands itch to be making something, to follow a rhythm with a piece of wood and soft fur of sheep, rabbit, llama. Or the product of silk worm and bamboo. I’ve discovered to my delight a substance called Upscale Acrylic.  I sit having a conversation with anyone, and if I am not also crocheting, a part of my brain is aching. I have two projects I’m knitting[jl1]  at work which I labor to finish during staff meetings, which are an odd affair, taking place over a large screen where most of the staff is sitting around a table 2 hours’ drive away and three of us in Christmas Valley are straining to hear. It is an exercise in frustration, but perhaps it is  practice for when I’m hard of hearing and I miss most of the content and a whole lot of nonverbal verbal cues. I’ll be knitting then, too.

I have projects that are perfect for church, or for a movie, since I can knit in the round without looking.  I get a lot done, especially during the sermon, or the previews, when I’m just not really engaged. If you are preaching, just know that you knocked it out of the park if I stopped knitting.

In a college seminar, we sat in a circle and talked and listened. I knit and talked and listened. One day, everyone turned to me and I asked why everyone was looking at me? One of the students said, because you put your knitting down. I always put it down when I had something to say. Ah.

My biggest projects are in the house, in large piles or baskets or boxes, and they require a lot of lap, and a cooperative cat. I’m working on a rug that will be something like 6 by 4 feet. I also have a number of lap blankets that are in process. I have two small purses half finished: purses the size of smart phones sold really well at the Paisley Bazaar last November. Sometimes I stare at my yarn and I get a flash of inspiration and I just up and start something entirely new. So what if I have 12 projects in various stages of completion. I finish my projects. Then I put them in a plastic trunk for gift/bazaar/me for later. And keep going. Yarn is joy.

It is also taking over the guest bedroom and the living room. You can’t see the surface of my desk for the piles of yarn. It’s rather like kudzu in the Southern states, hanging over everything and creeping around. Rather like a fungus. Rather like the clutter in a teenage boy’s room, there is a debris tide.  I neaten and organize, and more yarn comes into the mix.

I think this is where the compulsion comes in. I do not need more yarn. I have a ‘stash beyond life expectancy.’ But new yarn, new colors and textures, they call to me.

Like wine calls to the alcoholic. Like meth calls to the meth user. Like chocolate calls to me. Like Blue Bunny chocolate covered ice cream bars call to me all the way from the Summer Lake gas station store. The one that says ‘Ice! You need Ice!’ on its big sign.  The owner is the cranky pumper of gas who hales me when he sees me: So! What treason have you committed lately, you pinko?  (Pinkos of the world, unite.)

I can’t afford the yarn, any more yarn ever, until I am out of debt. I asked Valerie if she minded the slow creep of yarn, and she said she will mind it come winter when she’s living in the house most of the time. With her peripatetic work schedule, she gets to stay a bunch of different places, none of which are as cluttered as our Paisley home. Cluttered with yarn.

Okay so I should stop buying yarn.

I was always a spendthrift, but my then-husband’s monthly explosion in response to the credit card bill was a bit of a deterrent. When we divorced, I blew through some serious money that came out of my retirement, and oh, I bought a house. Which I then had to sell toot suite when I took a severance package to get out of a very well paying but crazy-making workplace. (In 4 years, I lived through 3 bosses and 3 reorganizations. By the buyout, I was working so far away from my skill set that I would sit in my office and cry.)

Living in small spaces or other people’s spaces after the divorce kept a slight lid on my yarn obsession. And now in the lovely loft house, when I’ve down sized my furniture to the amount I could move cross country, I have lots of room.  Oops. Yarn explosion. The generous tax refund this spring did not help.

What’s this about being an artist?  Delusions of grandeur, probably.

Once upon a time, I took an environmental sculpture class at Oberlin. By my junior year, as a religion major and women’s studies minor I was writing a bazillion papers every semester. I wished to escape another paper and branched out to take folk dancing, print making and drawing, and even horseback riding, which, for this city kid, was really fun.  A friend of mine, Monica, talked me into this class on Environmental Sculpture.

Our assignment was to plan a sculpture, and take care of all of the steps necessary to get permission to make it and install it. Finally, you build it. I wandered around the Oberlin neighborhood we lived in and found several shells of houses that had burned down. One shell had all four corners intact, and everything else was a stinky mass of melted plastic and trash. I had my site. I don’t recall getting permission from anyone to build a sculpture there.  So it was a squatter site. I do remember finding an old wooden fireplace mantel, a bunch of wooden chair legs, some pallets. Pretty soon, I had the outline of a little hut. About 8 feet by 8 feet. I looked up Shinto Shrines, and back then there was no google. A shrine could be a home to a spirit who lived in that place. A living thing was needed, and a philodendron did the job. My classmates helped me raise the roof, which was a wooden shed structure just perfect for the top. I had my sculpture and I loved it very much. I still have the photos taken by another Obie, Bernice. Looking at them, I recall what a magical process this was.

To this day, I collect found objects and plan to make more sculptures. I might just be able to do that in Paisley. I have the space, and live in a town with a complete lack of judgment for saving odd things that look like junk. (Have you seen our side yard???) (Have you seen our neighbor to the immediate south???)

Why can’t I be an artist?

Why can’t art flow out of me and be manifested in some form, and then be shown to the public?

What is art? I have a broad definition. Anything made from my hands that is not food, is art. It does not have to be a job, but instead, a way of being in the world. A way of seeing something that does not exist yet and bringing it into this reality, rather like the sculptor who sees a large block of stone and envisions a human figure hidden inside. Chip away the stone and the human emerges. ­­I see a physical space, or a blank fence wall, and I envision something there. Mobiles made of found objects, including cow bones, are taking up residence in my imagination. The afore-mentioned setting sun, made of half of an irrigation wheel and a whole lot of yarn. There are a lot of weathered pieces of wood, including twisting branches, that I’d love to build into something…

Creativity is seeing something that doesn’t exist already. You need to find out how you can bring it into being and that way be a playmate with God.                                    Michele Shea

 As I settle into life in Lake County, I anticipated I’d have more free time to do things like volunteer, and make art. I’m beginning to make some art, as my fourth of July American flag takes its place on the side of the house. It has many other colors besides red white and blue, which I’d hoped would make a point about multi-cultural diversity, but they are too subtle. You have to go right up to the thing to see the greens, golds and purples. That’s okay. It was a first effort. It is a reassuringly familiar American Flag for the conservative county I live in. It was Valerie’s idea. She said, you know what the cowboys would love? A crocheted American flag. And so it is.

The sun will be multi-colored.

The outside of the house will begin to look like the inside: colorful and full of art.

I am an artist.

I recently stayed in a house that had a small wooden sign in it that said: I can be anything, but I can’t do everything.

I will be an artist. And a therapist. I will be a volunteer in small ways, like when I go to Lakeview or Bend, I can tell my neighbors that I’m there, so I can pick up a prescription or a rotisserie chicken, or hair dye. I will try to treat my pancreas better, and maybe ride my tricycle around town.

I will try to buy less yarn. Hmf. I call bullshit. Yoda said, there is no try, there is only do. So, I guess that means, I will stop buying yarn. Until… the kudzu has been trimmed and the native plants can breathe. Um, or maybe until we can walk through the living room without tripping over a bag or basket of yarn. That’s a fair goal. The more specific the goal, the easier to reach, right?

All the arts we practice are apprenticeship.  The big art is our life.   M.C.Richards

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[kae1crafts]

Finally a Watch Band that Works

I had to scrape ice off of my windshield this morning!!! Guess fall has officially fallen here.  The cold has sure made some of the leaves beautiful.

I have a southwestern watch band that requires some linkage or expansion band to be able to wear it.  I can’t find a small enough expansion band for a reasonable price, didn’t like the beaded band I made with a toggle clasp so I made a link band today.  It has 5 links and a hook clasp, made with silver wire.  It fits my wrist much better than any expansion band or the beaded one I made.  It is hard to get off but comfortable to wear.  Guess my Dear Husband (DH) will just have to help me unless I find a method that works for doing it myself.  Hope to post pictures soon.

I also made another tassel today.  At knit group, I crocheted on a dressy poncho  to wear over a cocktail type dress made out of Beautiful Trellis Yarn.  Hope to get it completed before our Craft Sale on October 21.  Sale will be held in Colorado Springs at the Regency Tower Apartments, 921 Green Star Drive 80905 from 9 - 2pm.  Everyone welcome to come shop.

One of my neighbors gave me a handful of knitting / crochet books yesterday.  Some very interesting vintage patterns in them.

Played Mah Jongg this afternoon.  One of our players is facing shoulder replacement next week.  Praying that she makes a rapid and complete recovery.

Seem to have run out of topics for the moment.  Those who know me best would be shocked that I’ve run out of something to say.  Just chalk it up to being tired and I will try to find something interesting to say tomorrow.

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JIMMY BEANS MICROBREWS APRIL 2017

Beautiful fiery colored sock yarn + a zip-up project bag

Yarn is Miss Bab’s Hot Shot (fingering), a blend of 80% Superwash Merino and 20% Nylon, in Colorway Fired Up which was dyed exclusively for Jimmy Bean but definitely go check out their website for more GORGEOUS colorways :)

FIBERISTA CLUB YARN APRIL 2017

Even More Fiery Yarn! 

3 Skeins of Malabrigo Arroyo (sport weight), 100% Superwash Merino, in colorway Archangel! Look on their website for even more colors and use their store locator to see where it’s available near you! :)

Fiberista sent an email with 6 different patterns too.

Knit Patterns:

Beige Contemplation Shawl

For Malabrigos Mechita Yarn (Fingering Weight)

Gapstow Shawl

For Malabrigos Arroyo Yarn (Sport Weight)

Houston Scarf

For Malabrigos Rios Yarn (Worsted Weight)

Crochet Patterns:

Lily of the Valley Wrap

For Malabrigos Mechita Yarn (Fingering Weight)

The Moonlight Wrap

For Malabrigos Arroyo Yarn (Sport Weight)

Garden Trellis Scarf  

For Malabrigos Rios Yarn (Worsted Weight)

Remember you can get 10% off your First order with Fiberista Club with the code FCLOVE and that’s for both regular merchendise and all sub boxes (Yarn, Sock, Fiber/Spinning or Garment).

Thoughts

I’m pretty happy with both of these boxes and it worked out surprisingly well that they kind of go together so I’m thinking of making socks with the Jimmy Bean yarn and maybe a skirt or a shawl with the Fiberista Yarn.

If I were going to pick one though it would have to be Fiberista. It is more expensive per month but there’s way more value to it. 3 skeins of great yarn that probably totals at least 75$ for 50$ if you go month to month with no discount (which of course I did not) plus the patterns are, lets say, another 10-15 dollars. It’s just a great deal and plenty of product to make something with plus I can find a LYS that carries it and get more if needed. :)

I love the idea of exclusive yarns but Jimmy bean only gives you one skein that costs less than the cost of the subscription itself, again it is exclusive so it’s worth more than the typical Babs skein and it came with that nice project pouch but still, it seems more like breaking even than getting a bargain like you do with most other sub boxes. 

For now I’m keeping both because I’m quite happy with the colors :) 

Happy Stitching!

-Kat

^I’m still horribly sick but lots of people are taking care of me and I think I’m finally starting to get better.

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