October 06, 2003
Long Live Kooky Krafts!
My wonderfully daft blogging "pen pal" Anne posted in her blog a link to this, thus inspiring me in a moment of utter insanity to Google on the words "tampon" and "art." In my naiveté I thought, surely I won't get any hits on such a preposterous search string, but 19,156 hits later, I bring you this, one of my finer Kooky Kraft finds. Do enter the site; the additional photos and captions are a hoot.
Anne has also sent me another wonderful example of a Kooky Kraft based on feminine hygiene products but that one has to wait until closer to Christmas to be revealed (wink, wink, nudge, nudge, Anne, wink, wink, nudge, nudge). As always, stay tuned!
Knitting Knews
Good news and bad news about the Arboretum sock. The good news: Finished the heel, love the heel.
The bad news: Figuring out how to continue the vine pattern down the foot was so frustrating I solved the problem by, well, working on the Aran pillow instead. Sock, what sock?
One of my commenters (and new Knitting Guild acquaintance), Mary, asked for the pattern for "eye of partridge" heel so, Mary, of the two versions I found on the Net, here's the one I used. This pattern basically uses alternating rows of sl1, k1 and k1, sl1. The staggered s1's are what make the diamond-y pattern.
Row 1: (wrong side) sl1, purl cross all stitches
Row 2: (sl 1, k1) across all stitches.
Row 3: sl1, purl across all stitches
Row 4: sl 1, k1, (k1, sl 1) across all stitches
Repeat rows 1-4
Dye Garden Dyegest
Semi-disappointing results with the sunflower dye, or maybe I'm just ready for some other color besides brown. In the case of the sunflower dye, I was hoping I'd get something more brick-y or magenta but, no, just brown, although with a nice, subtle plum tone. Below, the swatch. The darker areas aren't variegation, just evidence of my losing the battle with the squirt bottle when I was pseudo-blocking the swatch (just visualize a cartoon character with an over-pressurized firehose).
Actually, the Never-Ending Browns redeemed themselves somewhat when I was inspired to take this photo of all the browns together (from top to bottom, walnut, alder cone, sunflower, marigold and bracken). For some reason, this photo has a lovely feng shui-y calming effect on me, which is quite odd since brown is one of my least favorite colors, right up there with orange, powder blue, and mint green.
Next entry, the interesting results from the madrona dyebath...
Posted by Ryan at October 6, 2003 10:40 AM