» swift http://www.ingridbarlow.com Mon, 06 Feb 2012 19:31:41 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v= “S” Hook Rug http://www.ingridbarlow.com/s-hook-rug/ http://www.ingridbarlow.com/s-hook-rug/#comments Mon, 03 Oct 2011 19:26:15 +0000 IngridBarlow http://www.ingridbarlow.com/?p=2242 After seeing this rug on Purl Bee, FREE pattern, I couldn’t stop myself from thinking that I needed another rug.  Geez, I’ve been making a lot of rugs around here, but when you have hard wood floors it really is nice.   Plus, look at that rug!?  It looks like you could just curl up on it and go to sleep–I love it!  Cozy Perfection.

 

Thus, when Tony was home and the boys were down for a nap, I scooted to the yarn shop.  (The yarn pictured is $124.00 a ball!!!  Yes, I do think Tony would consider doing something drastic if I purchased yarn at that price!)   I found this super bulky yarn and a giant S size crochet hook for a wee bit cheaper.  Don’t worry Tony–a LOT cheaper.

 

Wound it up on my borrowed swift from my grandma-in-law.  She’s sweet to let me “store” it at my house.

 

And here’s the ball all pretty.  I used 2 balls to be exact.

 

About 2 hours later and here is my rug!   My guess it is about 34″ across.  Interesting how when I purchased the yarn, I thought it was going to be mostly the cream/white color with just some hints of the gray/blues.  It is much darker than I thought it would be.

 

 

It does match the wet bag I just made for Espen’s room–nice when things just happen.  I guess it was meant to be, right Tony?  :)

 

I do still love the one from Purl Bee pictured above, so maybe next week I will have to try some strips of tweady white/cream wool.

]]> http://www.ingridbarlow.com/s-hook-rug/feed/ 1 Swift! http://www.ingridbarlow.com/swift/ http://www.ingridbarlow.com/swift/#comments Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:50:25 +0000 IngridBarlow http://www.ingridbarlow.com/?p=724 I think my nesting form of choice has been knitting.  There is just something about it.  I am self taught so each project I complete is like a little celebration for me.  Every time I go to the knitting shop I soak up bits of new information.  The last time I went I had the lady show me how this wooden contraption worked.  She called it a swift and I remembered that I had seen one in Tony’s grandma’s laundry room tucked way back on a shelf.  I did a little borrowing from her and wa-la–I am a swifting machine.

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A few side notes:

–I have had a rather nasty cold the last few days, so I highly recommend knitting and hot tea together

–Dakota so knows better than to take anything off the table, but she wanted her spotlight on the blog…so, she’s cute this time, but next time…

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