Skip to main content

Jackpot!

The Advent Calendar continues to take up my knitting time and other times as well.  One of the most important acquisitions to complete this project is the white background and green tree and pockets to hold the ornaments.

This is the Yarn Harlot´s version so you have a clue what I am talking about.

Yarn Harlot´s Advent Calendar; photo credit Stephanie Pearle-McPhee
The downtown Vancouver store called Dressew has always been my go to shop for making these types of purchases in the past, but I am in the Twin Cities.  After asking around I found a store called SR Harris, another discount fabric store.  Where Dressew is a department store, SR Harris is a warehouse.  That means it was huge with bolts and bolts of all types of fabric.  It also carries buttons, ribbons, thread and decals, but boy finding just exactly what one needs without help is a challenge.  But within an hour I located the green and white felt I needed, plus all the other accessories.

Photo credit:  SR Harris FB page
Here´s the jackpot I came home with.
The green and white felt, the red buttons to hold the ornaments and the red ribbon to make the loops for the ornaments
This went to the farm with me so I could show the haul to Mom.  While there she offered up the following two ornaments to add to my growing collection.




So not only was I able to get the fabric needed, the girls will also get a couple of ornaments actually created by their great grandmother!

The surroundings at Mom´s place

Production Update:  The cats have decided my tiny ornaments are actually cat toys.  This makes photo taking a challenge if they are awake and they were both awake.   Here is a series of photos taken of the tiny stocking.  The shadow in Mike moving it as I take a picture and the now you see it, now you don´t second shot.

A gray paw moving the stocking

And it is gone
Mara found the felt a warm bed and I had to physically pick her up and move her to another bed to get the photos I wanted.  No cat hair on it though, the plastic bag saved it from that curse.




Comments

Post a Comment

Popular posts from this blog

Anatomy of a Sock

I've been knitting socks for a relatively short time.  One of the disconcerting things for me as I started following patterns for socks is the pattern designer assumes the knitter (in this case that would be me) knows all the parts of a sock.  So I thought I'd devote a post to improve my own knowledge about the anatomy of a sock and maybe some of you will learn something about the humble yet necessary sock as well. Here's the names of the parts of the foot as I know them. #49 ankle, #50 heel, #51, instep, #52 ball, #53 big toe, #54 toe, #55 little toe, #56 toenail. There are some parts more important for this discussion; first the heel of a foot is generally used to refer to the entire C-shape from the ankle to the instep.  Speaking of the instep, it refers to that curve near the bottom of the foot.  And what seems to be missing in the design above is the sole which generally refers to the bottom of the foot in total or plantar aspect in more technical terms...
8 comments
Read more

Yarn Usage II: Crochet vs. Knit

All four swatches were made.  Each is 6.25" or 15.875 cm square; each prepared with the same sized yarn and needles or hook.  It took 25 stitches to get the appropriate width for the knit swatches and only 20 stitches for both of the crocheted squares.  That already says something, but I'll get to it in a minute.  (Don't know what I'm talking about here?  Check out this post first.) Unfortunately, you'll just have to trust me that four swatches were prepared and that they were all the same size.  In the excitement to get to measuring and weighing of the swatches, no photographic evidence was taken.  Luckily for me the results of this research doesn't have to be reviewed by a jury of my peer.  This blog post will be the sum and total of where this information is published. The remains of my four swatches What can be shared, however, are the balls of yarn rewound after the weighing and measuring was completed.  You will note the size ...
7 comments
Read more

Knitting-Related Guinness World Records

I had to share some of the Guinness World Records connected with knitting.  It is amazing to me the type of skill, stamina and unique characteristics these record holders have in common. How about trying to knit with these SPNs?? Ingrid Wagner and her large needles and knitted swatch The largest knitting needles measured 3.5 m (11 ft 5.8 in) long and had a diameter of 8 cm (3.15 in). Ingrid Wagner, a rug and art creation artist, from the UK used the needles to knit a tension square of ten stitches by ten rows at the Metro Radio Arena, Newcastle upon Tyne, UK, on March, 10 2008.  (And I complained about getting certain SPNs stuck in my clothes.)  See how this swatch was done with merely 5 people managing the needles.  And what about the yarn?  It is truly ex-bulky.  It looks like they're knitting in a warehouse, but with a wingspan of almost 24 feet or 7 m, you'd need all that space.  Or h...
7 comments
Read more