UFOs, otherwise known as those Un Finished Objects. Those projects that you have the joy of starting. With your excitement at a fever pitch, ready to go, already planning on the next one just like it and what colors you are going to use for it! those projects that you start with all the enthusiasm in the world and you are going to finish and give to so and so. The projects that always seem to get set aside when that new project pattern comes out from your favorite fiber arts designer/teacher. The project that gets set on top of the other project bags in your closet or in your workroom.
If any of the above sounds familiar I wanted everyone to know I have come up with a new name for this disease of starting a project and not finishing it until months or even years later after you have started it.
If any of you have found yourself in this situation congratulations you are now officially known as having FADD. Otherwise known as FIBER ATTENTION DEFICIT DISORDER!!!!
We all suffer from it!1 Don't deny it. Embrace it and run with it. Hell, drop the project you are working on right now into the nearest project bag, go out and buy new yarn or material and start yet another new project just to prove that you actually have FADD.
I am here to help you out some. we all like seeing what others are working on, what stage they are in on the project and then we all love to see the finished projects. We all also love to show off our projects once they are finished also.
Here is my offer - Send me pictures of your UFOs, started, in the middle of, or even finished. I will gladly show them off on my blog for you. Kind of a way of saying this is not just my blog but your blog also. send your jpg format pictures to fibergadgetguy@earthlink.net and as soon as I get enough pictures I will start posting them. Please include some information like what kind or fiber you are using, who designed the pattern, is it an original pattern by yourself, etc...etc... I will post those pictures and information and a short story from you in my future blogs.
I was sitting here on this snowy afternoon working on a new project for my Mom who is in an assisted living community in Texas. She was telling me how chilly she was and I thought I would make her a blanket and send it to her. I am making it from Lion Brand Homespun yarn and using my 38 inch Knitting Board.
Enough of that I can include this in my next blog. Look for that one coming within the next few days.
Hope to get lots and lots of pictures from everyone so I can show off your work for you and tell the stories that come along with the Pesty Little UFOs!!!!
Till later,
Chris Z
Saturday, January 5, 2013
Friday, March 2, 2012
We Interrupt This Regularly Scheduled Blog.......
We interrupt this regularly scheduled blog for an important announcement!!!
I was sent this on Facebook and would like to have everyone take a look at it.
We have all been in the situation where we have had something good in our lives that we wanted to share with others. This individual has come out with a great idea for an e-book but just needs the funding to make it happen.
Most individuals in the fiber arts community already know how to knit with two hands, but there are some of us , including myself who have not learned as of yet. I want to but I have just not had the time to sit down and do it. I know that when this e-book is released I will most likely be one of the individuals that will purchase it.
Please help out in any way that you can. There are some nice patterns as gifts for saying Thank you that he is offering. It may not be for everyone but help out if you can.
Please take a look at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/444491060/knitting-untangled-a-learn-to-knit-ebook
I was sent this on Facebook and would like to have everyone take a look at it.
We have all been in the situation where we have had something good in our lives that we wanted to share with others. This individual has come out with a great idea for an e-book but just needs the funding to make it happen.
Most individuals in the fiber arts community already know how to knit with two hands, but there are some of us , including myself who have not learned as of yet. I want to but I have just not had the time to sit down and do it. I know that when this e-book is released I will most likely be one of the individuals that will purchase it.
Please help out in any way that you can. There are some nice patterns as gifts for saying Thank you that he is offering. It may not be for everyone but help out if you can.
Please take a look at http://www.kickstarter.com/projects/444491060/knitting-untangled-a-learn-to-knit-ebook
Knitting Untangled - A Learn to Knit eBook
Saturday, January 14, 2012
And Away We Go.....
The first post in a new blog... What do you write?? What do you not write?? Well I am not going to worry about any of that in this post. I am just going to concentrate on why I started this blog and who it is geared towards.
As my profile says, I started doing fiber arts when I became a part of the organizing and production of a local fiber arts event in my area. Many of you know which one that was. Recently I have had to step back due to some health issues and I needed something that I could take my time up with that would not require a whole lot of time or energy, and would also be a part of the enjoyment I get from doing fiber arts. Thus this blog.
My fiber arts are a little different from your day to day knitting or crocheting. They are still considered a form of knitting and fiber arts but each one requires a gadget of some sort to do. Currently I use a Innovations Circular Knitting Machine, Knitting Boards by Kb or Authentic Knitting Board and also I use Knifty Knitters. In future post I will try and highlight these items, what I have used them to make and also how to use them. Every once in a while I will throw a little bit of history into the mix just so you can know where the items originated from and know their history.
One of my favorite quotes about history is,
"How can we know where we are going without knowing where we have been."
Currently I am working on the same project I have worked on for about the past 8 months. I will be finishing it sometime this week.
It is being worked on a 10 inch Authentic Kitting Board and I am using Austermann's Bambou Soft. It is a mixture of Merino and bamboo. Unfortunately I only have three skeins of this yarn and they do not make it any more. I am doing this in a simple stockinette stitch. I believe that this will most likely end up being a mobius type scarf.
As most fiber artists knows you can not have just one project going at one time. I have also been working on many scarves for a local charity that gives scarves and hats to those who do not have them. I do most of these items on the Innovations Circular Knitting Machine. More about that in the coming posts.
Among my arsenal of knitting boards I have 2 Tadpoles (6"), 2 -10 inch boards, a 18", 28" and 38" knitting board. I have projects in planning for each one but have not been able to find the time to do so before now. Hopefully I will be able to get those projects started and share them with you here in the future.
This is something new to me so bare with me as I work out the kinks and get familiar with it. I hope to hear from more of you soon.
As my profile says, I started doing fiber arts when I became a part of the organizing and production of a local fiber arts event in my area. Many of you know which one that was. Recently I have had to step back due to some health issues and I needed something that I could take my time up with that would not require a whole lot of time or energy, and would also be a part of the enjoyment I get from doing fiber arts. Thus this blog.
My fiber arts are a little different from your day to day knitting or crocheting. They are still considered a form of knitting and fiber arts but each one requires a gadget of some sort to do. Currently I use a Innovations Circular Knitting Machine, Knitting Boards by Kb or Authentic Knitting Board and also I use Knifty Knitters. In future post I will try and highlight these items, what I have used them to make and also how to use them. Every once in a while I will throw a little bit of history into the mix just so you can know where the items originated from and know their history.
One of my favorite quotes about history is,
"How can we know where we are going without knowing where we have been."
Currently I am working on the same project I have worked on for about the past 8 months. I will be finishing it sometime this week.
It is being worked on a 10 inch Authentic Kitting Board and I am using Austermann's Bambou Soft. It is a mixture of Merino and bamboo. Unfortunately I only have three skeins of this yarn and they do not make it any more. I am doing this in a simple stockinette stitch. I believe that this will most likely end up being a mobius type scarf.
As most fiber artists knows you can not have just one project going at one time. I have also been working on many scarves for a local charity that gives scarves and hats to those who do not have them. I do most of these items on the Innovations Circular Knitting Machine. More about that in the coming posts.
Among my arsenal of knitting boards I have 2 Tadpoles (6"), 2 -10 inch boards, a 18", 28" and 38" knitting board. I have projects in planning for each one but have not been able to find the time to do so before now. Hopefully I will be able to get those projects started and share them with you here in the future.
This is something new to me so bare with me as I work out the kinks and get familiar with it. I hope to hear from more of you soon.
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