whyknotmama | An evening with an Engineer...and fun.

I've been feeling the knitting this year. There are times when I really just want to make the yarn and let someone else work with it. However, I intend to create beyond the initial stages this year. Hats, mittens, scarves, cowls...

So far, several pairs of mittens and several hats, about 5 cowls, and a small scarf. What has really hit home this month is that I'm looking with longing at the yarn I dyed myself... This is a breakthrough for me as I have a tendency to try to make my creations "less" in my eyes, and I"m kicking that to the curb along with perpetual "sorry" (see last post). I'm putting on my big girl panties and proclaiming that I can create beautiful things..for ME as well as everyone around me. I can appreciate that what I have made is beautiful, useful, and just as lovely as anything else I've seen.

I've expanded that creation process to go as close to the sources as I can while still living within the city limits. I've gone officially from soiled wool to finished hat this year. Washing, (washing, washing, washing, also, see washing), dyeing, spinning, plying, and then, finally, knitting. It's lovely, and I love it. It was a combined effort with a visiting friend with an interest in learning more about spinning. What light! What beauty! What FUN!

You see? THERE it is. I forgot that it's FUN as well as necessary. I love this "job."

I also have been exploring my curious side again with trying some new things. First off: A friend of mine mentioned to me that she read somewhere that you could use pantyhose as a belt for a car, and why wouldn't that work for my treadle sewing machine.. (last night...there may have been wine)

Well.....we made it work!

Notice the white stitching? Yeah, that's where we sewed it together with the "modern" sewing maching...

So, that's what happens when knitters get together. Thanks Lee!