Do you ever feel like you stepped onto an out-of-control merry-go-round? (Or yarn winder, if one were able to sit on a yarn winder….) That’s what this week has felt like. Busy, busy, busy. Maybe I just need to sit and chill and knit for awhile tonight. I’ve been working on my Cabled Rib Wrap and not working on my Charleston Tea (although I need to). I’m also ready to get another scarf on the loom. The purple one from last week is done. I’ll show it to you as soon as I wash and block it. I had fun working on it!
It’s time for our October Blog Contest, and I thought it would be fun to give away a skein from our newest indie dyer. I’m happy to say that we’re adding Fibernymph Dye Works to the shop. We’ll have Lisa’s beautiful semi-solids, striping yarns, and also her awesome roving. This line will be going up soon, but you have a chance to win a skein before it goes up! Leave a comment below and we’ll draw a winner next week. You can pick the color you’d like, from these five pictured. (Left to Right: Brigid’s Cloak, Autumn Harvest, Nothing But Blue Skies, Elphaba’s Corset, and An Air of Elsewhere.) The October Blog Question is: Do you have any other needle arts hobbies besides knitting? (Spinning? Weaving? Quilting? Counted Cross Stitch? Needlepoint? Rug Hooking?) To enter the drawing, leave your answer in the comments below. We’ll email you if we draw your name next week.
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I’ve done quilting, needlepoint, and embroidery at various times. Currently I’m an avid spinner. It feeds my knitting habit.
I am a quilter and a knitter, but lately I have been mostly knitting. I recently started making shawls and I can’t get enough!
I’ve tried many different needlearts: Knitting, crochet, embroidery, counted cross-stitch, punch-needle embroidery, sewing, dollmaking, candlewicking, quilting, crewelwork, needlepoint, and more that I can’t remember right now, and have the stash to prove it all! 🙂 Knitting is my great love, though, and especially sock knitting.
I’ve done counted cross stitch and needlepoint, but those have fallen by the wayside. Currently I sew, quilt and knit. There are never enough hours in the day!
Knitting is my first love, but I also love to needlepoint (also a wool yarn habit). My mother taught me to needlepoint before she taught me to knit. I created a miniature oriental rug on 24 count canvas (that’s really small!), which is a replica of a Kilim rug hanging in the Nelson-Atkins Museum of Art in Kansas City, MO. It won a second place nod at the Arapahoe County Fair in 2010.
I just learned how to spin on a drop spindle (last Sunday). I love it and am practicing as much as I can in between knitting Halloween socks for my nieces. I can’t wait until they offer a class with spinning wheels and I want to be ready for it. In the past I’ve also done a lot of counted cross stitch, embroidery and needlepoint. My maternal grandmother taught me to crochet, but I was never able to really get the hang of it. My paternal grandmother tried to teach me to knit, but she lived across town (the other grandmother was next door) and so I couldn’t see her often enough to learn (and once I was old enough to drive, I was “too cool” to want to let her teach me to knit – what a fool!). She also tatted lace and in hindsight I wish I’d asked her to teach me that as well. I like to think that my grandmothers are both smiling down from Heaven when I’m knitting or doing other needlework.
I crochet and I use to do cross stitch and needle point. I would love to learn to spin.
But knitting is my # one passion : )
I’m a cross stitcher, but haven’t done it in years……that yarn looks scrumptious…….
Wow – what fun!
I also quilt… but it has been awhile.
Thanks!
I’ve tried most all of the other listed fiber arts – but knitting is the “keeper”. I fantasize about what all I can do when I retire . . . . ahhhhhhh 🙂
Salam wa sa’aadah LInda
I crochet on occasion and used to do a lot of off-loom bead weaving. Knitting is my first love, though, and rarely a day goes by where I haven’t at least knit a row or two. I try really hard to limit my WIPs but lately haven’t been doing a very good job. Knitting helps me cope with daily stress and is my escape and refuge.
Good morning. I lstarted with knitting and love it. I do crochet, and started needlepoint but knitting is the old day favorite .
I also wanted to say that on vacation on visited your store and loved it.
Does embroidery count? Doesn’t seem like too many folks still embroider but I do.
I knit and crochet. I also do embroidery, quilting and sewing. Love them all!
Umm- yes! I also spin on a wheel, a bit of crochet (just enough to be dangerous), and counted cross stitch. I have a table top loom but am afraid to learn to use it (it was my grandmother’s) as I barely have time to do the others. Though- knitting is by far my favorite and it is carried with me everywhere. Thanks!
Knitting is my favorite, but I’m starting to get into sewing, too.
I love all of the needlearts and have done sewing, cross stich, rug hooking, embroidery, but I always come back to knitting.
I seem to have run the gamut of needle crafts during the course of my lifetime. Both of my boys had needlepoints I made for their births. A few years later I started quilting and making curtains and pillows for around the house. When the boys started wrestling in high school I needed a more portable hobby, so I started knitting. Now I feel antsy if I don’t have something on my needles.
Nope, no other needle hobbies besides knitting…yet. I am very intrigued by quilting, though, so that could be in my future!
I started knitting about 60 years ago and just last year did some for the 1st time in several years. Due to a shoulder injury I was too unconfortable to knit. I have been
doing counted cross stitch, needlepoint and hardanger. Now I am doing all again and I don’t have enough time to spend doing these wonderful things. I never sit down without something in my hands to stitch or knit.
I also, have done many needle crafts thru the years. I started with knitting as a child, added crocheting and embroidering. After having two girls, I picked up quilting and needlepoint. Three boys and one grandchild later, I am back to knitting and starting the adventure away from squares and rectangles.
Knitting is the best!!! I quilt as well — but it’s not as easy pick up a quilting project. I particularly like to hand-quilt. It’s as meditative as knitting.
I also crochet and cross stitch. Knitting will always be my first love.
Crochet all the way 🙂
Have tried the 2 pointy thing and am 2 left hands with it. What really caught my eye with the new indie dyer was the color of one of the skeins “Nothing But Blue Skies”. I worked up a kerchief that I named “Nothing But Blue Skies” last month using another indie dyers yarn in a blue, and it has received rave reviews on Rav :)))
I used to crochet and do cross-stitch. Since I have learned how to knit that is all I do….I love knitting.
I do many different kind of needle arts – I think the only thing I haven’t tried is tatting. I’m really big into Cross-Stitch right now and I’m getting my quilting bug back. Wish there were more hours in the day to fit it all in! The Brigid’s Cloak colorway is really beautiful (I’m partial to greens)!
Many, many needle arts hobbies here but only so much time in a day: crochet, cross-stitch, embroidery, quilting and spinning. (I feel like I am missing something; what’s left?) 🙂
I’m barely a knitter… but trying to learn.
What beautiful skeins these are!
I used to do needlepoint and may return to again one day! I have also tried hand quilting but it’s a bit too precise for me!
I took a quilting class over the summer and loved it, but my sewing machine does not seem like it is quite up to challenge of quilting (hopefully a Christmas elf will notice and bring me a new one). I just learned how to spin and I really really want to learn to weave after looking at all of the fun pictures of the class up on the blog!
What absolutely gorgeous colors! Can’t wait to see the rest of the line.
I do a bit of spinning. I’m still pretty bad at it, but I love shopping for fibre just as much as for yarn!
Needlework of some sort has always provided me those brief moments of total abandon in a stress filled day! Quilting, cross stitch, rug-hooking, lots of crochet and now knitting. Have given up everything but knitting, it’s worse then chocolate!
I think that I was born with a needle in my hand!! Besides making clothing for myself, I have at times quilted, done loads of crossstitch, done a little crocheting, and now almost exclusively knit using both knitting machines and knitting needles. My sweaters are almost always my designs with maybe a pattern which I saw somewhere else.
I would like the Nothing But Blue Skies skein if I win!!!
Millie
I crochet and needle point and cross stitch – weaving (very small scale and seldom), some years ago I spun and dyed, but haven’t done that recently.
Knitting is my main hobby.
I love the colorway An Air of Elsewhere
I’ve done them all. I still dabble in cross stitch, and do some costume sewing, and then there’s the quilting. Oh, and I demonstrate spinning at my farmer’s market every other week during the season. There are other crafts, sans needles, but that’s a list for another day.
Oh, and Elphaba’s Corset is screaming at me. I would like that one, please.
I do all of them! It started with the crochet and the embroidery, (I won ribbons when I was a kid!) Then there was sewing, quilting, spinning, dyeing, knitting, felting.
I have been quilting nearly thirty years and have also done a lot of counted thread embroidery. I have supplies for rug hooking and have dabbled in that. Now, I mostly knit, spin, dye, and have recently bought a little Cricket. If I could do away with sleep, I could get a lot more done!
I’ve done needlework for years, more serially than at the same time. Quilting, needlepoint, and counted cross stitch. Knitting and quilting have been my favorites.
Besides knitting, I love to hand spin.
Those colors look gorgeous!
I do a little crochet, mostly amigurumi for my daughters, and every once in a great while I do some cross stitch. Mostly though, I knit every free moment I have, which isn’t nearly enough!
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I crochet a little, and I also love to spin on hand spindles. 🙂
Knitting is my favorite but I also crochet, sew and quilt. Those hand paints are gorgeous!
I still quilt. Worked at a quilt store for 6 yrs. I have also cross-stitched.
Glad you finished weaving your scarf! In Kentucky !
I crochet also, but I’m much more addicted to knitting. I am a lapsed quilter; I love patchwork. But I have so much yarn in my stash, that I have to knit, knit, knit. There’s room in my stash for one of those lovely skeins!
I knit and occasionally crochet. I’ve cross-stitched in the past, but not in years. And I own a couple of drop spindles and a bunch of fiber, but I just can’t get the hang of spinning, although I’d love to!!
Thanks for the contest!!
I used to do a lot of cross-stitching, but haven’t for quite a while!
I crochet, cross stitch, have tatted,took a spinning class, done needle point and various needlework but all have faded into the past with my love of knitting taking over everything. Knitting keeps me sane.
I’ve done spinning, weaving, cross-stitch, quilting, sewing, bead weaving, rug hooking, needlepoint, and probably more that I can’t remember. Knitting and quilting are the ones I do the most.