Puzzler
First, I want to apologize for all of the photos today. It's been raining for two days so there's no natural light to speak of. Here's what I started yesterday after four loads of laundry, kitchen cleaning, felting bowls (story and pics below), reading the paper and everything else I could think of to do in the house was done.
That's right! 1,500 pieces, very detailed, and taking up half of the kitchen table. Problem is that Howie just can't drag himself away from it. I think he has a problem. No mellow jigsaw puzzler in him. He wants to FINISH! I think he's getting up at night slipping pieces into place. Last night I threatened to break it up and put it back in the box if he didn't step away from the puzzle.
So felting.... Last summer I started felting knitted bowls. I figured they'd be great little gifts this Christmas. I made three or four and stopped. Now I realize I need to step up production. So I made two in the last week and felted them on Sunday.
Pre-felting. (Previously felted bowl for scale)
Post-felting: After two washes on hot with an old pair of jeans. Nobody told me the jeans shouldn't have holes. I picked blue fuzz off of these for 10 minutes!
All of the bowls use a variety of worsted weight feltable wool. They are super easy to make, each one takes only a couple of hours. I've got to get going on a few more! Howie has decided that he likes three of the five that I've already made so actually I only have two available for gifts. I wonder what he wants to do with all of the felted bowls?!
Ribby Cardi is blocking. No pictures though, I'm really not loving the way any of these photos came out and who wants to see drying wool? It only took me about 2 weeks to knit it and I waited another two weeks to block it. At this rate I'll be putting the zipper in by New Year's.
I saved the best for last. Look what arrived today:
A skein of 100% Merino, hand dyed sock yarn from Pippi! I loveitloveitloveit!!! The color is Terrapin, and it is so beautiful. So soft too, all I want to do is hold it near me. I love her yarn -someday I'll be able to afford some of her handspun. But this will do just fine for now!!!
