Table Cloth

I live in a furnished apartment, no complaints about that. I appreciate that my previous apartment was furnished as well, it just means you have to get creative with what you have. I have talked about this before, but today my attention turns to my small dining area.

Yesterday I decided most normal households have at least one table cloth, especially if your table is ugly fake wood, so I bought one. Then I saw this $2 center piece mat that I thought would add a nice bit of contrast.

All this to say that this table cloth and simple center piece have made me much happier with the "style" of my kitchen. Then I got to wondering if the puke colored chairs would hold spray paint. No, I haven't tried.

David pointed out that a couple of the chair colors are the same as the art piece I purchased for the wall, and I had to kindly explain that it only looks like puke on chairs not on the wall - right? I mean that makes complete sense...?

This reminds me I never showed you what the completed green curtains look like, or my little side table covers, well I guess I'll have to do some practicing with the new camera.

Have a good one.

afgahns for Afghans and entrelac

Yippee, our area knitting group sent off 19 pairs of mittens to Afghanistan through afghans for Afghans. If you want to see which ones I knit you can see the notes on flickr.

In other news I am still awaiting yarn to finish my sweater, but I have begun a new project in the meantime.








I was recently generously gifted a bag of Noro Kureyon colorway 150 - thanks Sammie! So I very excitedly went through Ravelry looking at all the possibilities for this lovely wool and I jumped into this knitting project:

Entrelac Wrap.

I really like how it is coming together and it is a wonderful distraction while I wait for my bit of sweater yarn and the cotton for the last of Christmas knitting.

What are you all up to this Monday?

Question: Emmy, what the heck have you been doing since you haven't been blogging?

Answers:
-Impatiently waiting for 20 yards of generously donated yarn to arrive from New Hampshire so I can finish my sweater. (didn't I tell you? I finished all but 2.5 inches on a sleeve and ran out of yarn)

- Knitting a ridiculous amount of wash cloths and tribbles for Christmas gifts

- Spinning flax into linen for a market bag

-Making mittens for afghans for Afghans

- Learning how to work our new sweet Nikon D80

- Figuring out which sweater to make next, since I am loving the result of my almost finished one

-For some reason feeling in a overall funk this week

- Looking forward to going home at Christmas

(yes, I realize the last two are most likely related)

In relation to offering my leg warmer pattern. I have been doing some research and reading about offering free patters. I have found that it may be in my best interest as a fiber artist, who hopes to one day have a decent income from fibering, to offer it at a small fee rather than free. This means I will need to do some substantial editing and find some test knitters so it may be awhile, thanks for understanding.

And about felting, well it seems I don't have it in me to write more about it, so sorry. I suppose I'll have to wait till it becomes a passion so here is a blog that explains the further details of hand felting, except I never used a sheet.