Handmade

Guess what! This Thursday is going to be the inaugural meeting of the Kinshasa SnB! I can’t wait! I don’t know that we have many knitters, but I have two more friends interested in learning, and it should be educational to have other types of stitchers there, too.

I meant to do some photography over the weekend to update some of my Ravelry project descriptions, but, well, I guess I worked on knitting instead. And I was talking to one of my non-knitter friends about knitting, and I got so excited I pulled out a plastic bin of knitted goods, and we took every one out of the bin and tried it on. That would have been a photo opp, socks on hands, hats and scarves and sweaters piled on.

She said, you have a LOT of knitted things.

We sat in the AC with sweaters on and drank tea and talked about Shetland yarn (she’s Scottish), and I knitted. It almost felt like fall on the east coast.

These photos are from the Fells Point fest in Baltimore the weekend of October 3rd, some other types of handmade items instead of my own.

Is it a bonobo?

Who else was obsessed with these 20yrs ago?

Makes me want to buy some eggs

Also, thanks WordPress, I hadn’t used the “caption” function before but I like it.

Yes! It’s going to happen!

I’m going to start a Stitch ‘n Bitch Kinshasa.

So far I have a sew-er, a quilter, and the former is a wannabe knitter.

Look out, Kinshasa!

Golding spun

Suddenly I have an urge to share with you some of my backlogged photos, so the spate of new blog entries continues!  Back in May, I took one of these home.

And I took some of this home.

And I spun and I spindled and I plied my little heart out.

And I ended up with this.

It is 50/50 wool and silk, about 0.5oz and 85 yards. I have quite a lot left of my 4oz of roving, plus one ounce of pure silk (the right braid above). Yummm! What will I ever dream up that will be a worthy project for spun gold?

Jazz knitting

Man, time really flies. This photo is from almost six months ago, when I somehow convinces three friends as crazy as I am that it would be a good idea to rent a car and drive overnight 14 hours to Jazz Fest in New Orleans, spend 3 days and 2 nights there, and then spend the last night again in the car driving 14 hours home. It was totally worth it. I could not have asked for better travel mates. Here, Cat is working on two socks at the same time amidst the musical fray in front of the Congo Square stage.

I’m only dancing! (or, well, Tad and Mel are…)

We watched performances that looked like this (band: Ilê Aiyê):

And I spent lots of time under my umbrella with a beer, not knitting.

And eating some softshell crab poboys…

 

ETA: OMG OMG OMG I’m so excited!!!  My yarn for the Bonobo project arrived! 

Idea: Use knitting to animate your music video!

In French, by a group called “Tricot Machine.”

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