90% Knitting...has moved!

I've officially moved the 90% Knitting videocast over to the new Fibernymph Dye Works blog. So, each week's episode will now appear over there along with the show notes. Though I will not be updating this blog with the videocast any longer, I am going to leave it up and active, as I haven't yet decided if I will try to continue to use it for it's original purpose or not. Time will tell! :)

If you're looking for this week's 90% Knitting episode, though, here's the direct link for it. I'm having some issues with the sidebar stuff on the main page of the new blog (issues as in...it's no longer there...no idea why...it's on all the other pages, just not the main one, which is kind of a problem), but I'm hoping to get them worked out soon!

Spring is offically here...

First wash of the season out on the clothesline today! Can't wait to hang the sheets out later this week. :)

90% Knitting - Episode 11

This was Take (freakin') Four of recording today. Me and the camera...grrrr. I was far more put together and coherent in Take One and Two. Sigh.

Welcome to the new members of the 90% Knitting group on Ravelry, and thanks so much for your thoughts and prayers for our son in Afghanistan. He's all recovered from his injuries and has returned to his unit now.

ON THE NEEDLES:

• 1. Moody Blues Socks, plain vanilla sock, my hand-dyed, stilllll on #2. US1/2.25mm needles.
• 2. Autumn Dream Scarf, pattern by Wendy Johnson, yarn by Indie Dyer in Dragonfly. US6/4mm needles.
• 3. Slouchy Cardigan, vaguely following Helene Roux' pattern from Greetings from Knit Cafe, Elsebeth Lavold Hempathy yarn, on US7s/4.5mm needles.

FINISHED OBJECTS:

• 1. Preemie Baby Beanie, pattern by Karen Everitt, leftover sock yarn. (Little baby Caroline, for whom Melissa started the Sweet Caroline preemie cap KAL passed away. Sadness. :( )

ON THE WHEEL:

• 1. Started the Knit Girllls SAL last Friday. Spun half of my Tempted fiber so far.

SHOP UPDATE:

• 1. Lots of sock yarn this week, mostly 100% Merino. There will be some short skeins and a few new colorways featuring my new favorites shades of pink and purple.
• 2. Two new colorways in the light fingering 535 yard skeins.
• 3. I dyed up mini-striping yarns w/ coordinating semi-solids in worsted with monsters and mittens in mind.
• 4. Featured spinning fiber this week is BFL.
• 5. There will be more bags this week (I don't think I remembered to say this on the videocast!)
• 6. This week's shop update will be on Friday between 6 - 7 p.m. eastern. Hoping to give people who work during the day a shot at catching the update!

RESOURCES/RECOMMENDATIONS:

• 1. The Big Book of Knitted Monsters, by Rebecca Danger
• 2. Spud & Chloe at the Farm, by Susan Anderson
• 3. Norwegian Handknits, but  Sue Flanders and Janine Kosel
• 4. Also, the Deluxe Collector's Edition book of Gnomes, illustrated by my favorite illustrator, Rien Poortvliet. Not at all knitting related, but still very cool. (Beware the nekkid gnomes.)

10%:

• 1. This week's Quickie KAL will be Susie's Reading Mitts, by Susie Rogers and Janelle Masters.
• 2. Got the basement cleaned out enough that I can access my workout equipment again! Time to get busy! I feel so sluggy.
• 3. I can't help it...I feel the urge for a new tattoo. Soon. Very soon. Stay tuned!

90% Knitting - Episode 10

ON THE NEEDLES:

• Moody Blues socks, my hand-dyed. Still working on #2
• Wendy's Autumn Dream Scarf, by Wendy Johnson, yarn by Indie Dyer. No progress, but it is still active.
• Slouchy Cardigan, pattern from Greetings from Knit Cafe, by Helene Roux. I'm actually following the mods from Belleepoque's Rav notes on how to do the sweater top down.
• Preemie Baby Beanie, pattern by Karen Everitt, leftover sock yarn.

FINISHED OBJECTS:

• Pedestrian Crossing Cowl, pattern by Melissa Tuttle Sibley, Malabrigo Rios in Indicetia
• Bunny Nugget, pattern by Rebecca Danger, my hand-dyed
• March YOSS Shamrockin' Socks - done only in the sense they are going to be frogged due to excessive stupidity and lack of common sense on my part. Total and utter sock FAIL. :(

ON THE WHEEL/IN THE DYE:

• Still spinning the camel on the wheel while I wait to start the Knit Girllls SAL with the Tempted fiber on Friday.
• Bought a fabulous new spindle - a Trindle - at Homespun Yarn Party.
• Dyeing galore to try and restock the shop for this Friday's update. This week, there will be some worsted and fingering self-striping, some light fingering vareigated and some Falkland top, as well as a few more bags. The shop will update this week between 4-6 p.m. eastern, NOT 5-7 as I said in the videocast! Argh!

RESOURCES/RECOMMENDATIONS:

• CraftSanity magazine again, since the video got goofed up last week right as I was talking about it.
• Japanese Garden Shawl drawing winner - Marigayle!

10%:

• Happy birthday Lala/Laura from The Knit Girllls!
• This month's Quickie KAL drawing winner is...announced in this segment of the videocast! ;)
• This week's Quickie KAL pattern will be Preemie Baby Beanies by Karen Everitt. I chose this in support of Melissa/Meliabella's Sweet Caroline KAL on the His & Her's podcast group.
• Homespun Yarn Party was so much fun last Sunday! Really enjoyed meeting those of you who introduced yourselves to me there! :)
• Thank you SO MUCH to everyone who came and made opening day of the shop a huge success last Friday! I really appreciate each and every one of you!

Thank you!

I want to say the biggest THANK YOU to everyone who visited the shop last Friday and who made a purchase. Your response to everything was incredible. I never expected to see so much sell out so quickly! You are amazing, and I am most thankful for you all!

We are busy skeining and dyeing and sewing so that we can restock the shop for you. My plan, at this point, is to do a shop update every Friday. The time will vary, but I will post it on the Etsy shop site a few days in advance so you'll know. I'll try to also post it in the blog. This week's update, on Friday, April 1 (no foolin'!) will go up between 4 - 6 p.m. eastern.

There was a month's worth of dyeing up in the shop when it opened, so for sure our weekly updates will not be nearly as large as what we originally had to offer, but I hope to have a nice variety of things every week. :)

Open for Business!

The Fibernymph Dye Works Etsy shop is now open for business! :)

90% Knitting - Episode 9

The big announcement this week is that the Fibernymph Dye Works Etsy shop will open on Friday, between noon and 2:00 p.m. eastern. Hope you stop by! You can sign up for the FDW Update Newsletter on the new blog. (I'm still updating the old blog too, but we'll be completely switched over in the new few weeks.)

ON THE NEEDLES:

• March YOSS plain vanilla in Shamrockin' colorway of Big Footie, Keegan Lane Yarns.
• Pedestrian Crossing Cowl, pattern by Melissa Tuttle Sibley; Malabrigo Rios, Indecitia colorway.

ON THE WHEEL/IN THE DYE:

• Finished spinning the BFL/Silk in Juniper colorway from Dyeabolical Yarns.
• Re-started spinning the camel down I started a couple years ago from Anne Tullett's Luxury Natural Fibers.
• Dyed a lot of self-striping sock yarn and variegated light fingering; also sewed up our first batch of bags.

RESOURCES/RECOMMENDATIONS:

• CraftSanity Magazine - available in PDF or hard copy
• Wendy Johnson's Japanese Garden Shawl. She's donating the profits from this pattern to the American Red Cross for relief efforts in Japan through the end of April. I'm offering a drawing for one copy of this pattern on the Rav group. Enter here.
• I will also be donating any profits I make from now through the end of April from my two patterns on Ravelry, Call Before Digging and Twisted & Twining to relief efforts in Japan through Mission to the World.

10%:

• This week's Quickie KAL will be Bunny Nuggets and/or Chubby Chirps, free patterns both from Rebecca Danger. Make either or make both and post pictures on the Rav thread to be entered in the monthly KAL drawing. First monthly KAL drawing will be on next week's episode.
• Going to the Homespun Yarn Party on Sunday in Savage, MD!
• I'm obsessed with Plants vs. Zombies on the iPad. Totally addictive!