1. Are you a yarn snob (do you prefer higher quality and/or natural fibers)? Do you avoid Red Heart and Lion Brand? Or is it all the same to you?
I suppose I am. I didn't mean to be, promise. When I first started knitting I bought like 50 dollars worth of red heart, no dye lot, unfortunately I still have most of it. Spinning has spoiled me.
2. Do you spin? Crochet?
I spin like the dickens, or I dick like the spinnins! either way, I make some freakin' yarn!
3. Do you have any allergies? (smoke, pets, fibers, perfume, etc.)
I might as well be allergic to smoke, it's that bad for me. I miss CA for that very reason, no smoky bars! I also dislike perfumy smells. ick.
4. How long have you been knitting?
Since the beginning of this year. hehe. Short, I know, but it's not the size of the wave, it's the motion in the ocean, baby!
5. Do you have an Amazon or other online wish list?
Nope. am I supposed to? I didn't know people did that, I get on it someday when I've got an extra minute, or 10.
6. What's your favorite scent? (for candles, bath products etc.)
hmmm...food-y smells, woody smells, deep smells, nothing floral, or too pretty.
7. Do you have a sweet tooth?
No, I have a whole mouth full of sweet teeth! I love sweets! But I am vegan so there's that. But I do love them! Dark chocolate, dried sugar-less mango, cookies, anything sweet and vegan and I'm all over it like I was all over my stolen picture of nate minnis in highschool!
8. What other crafts or Do-It-Yourself things do you like to do?
I'm a crafty gal but I'm not devoted to any other craft like I am to the fibers, oh jeez how I love the fibers, I shower with them, you know. Ok, not really, I make them wait outside the shower so they don't felt, but they do get to watch.
9. What kind of music do you like? Can your computer/stereo play MP3s? (if your buddy wants to make you a CD)
I'm an ipod fiend and I love lotsa different music, some I haven't even heard yet. Some of my current favorites are: Jets to Brazil (I've got quite a thing for blake schwarzenbach), Tom Waits, Nellie McKay, Mary Prankster.
10. What's your favorite color? Or--do you have a color family/season/palette you prefer? Any colors you just can't stand?
I'm an equal opportunity colorist, though i'm a bit happy about pink/red/orange lately.
11. What is your family situation? Do you have any pets?
I've got a bit of a boy, three and a half, and a hairy dog named bettina.
12. What are your life dreams? (really stretching it here, I know)
Oh geez, to have my pre-pregnancy boobs back, to make a yarny living, and for the world to shift so that my boy to never has to see the ugliness. Not in that order.
13. What is/are your favorite yarn/s to knit with?
homespun! anything with interesting colors and nice, natural fibers. I especially like plant fibers, though not so much cotton.
14. What fibers do you absolutely *not* like?
splitty cotton and acrylic. I also won't use silk, unless it's that stuff that's harvested from what live silk worms left behind, that's okay.
15. What is/are your current knitting obsession/s?
I think knitting is my current knitting obsession. I'm a broad, broad.
16. What is/are your favorite item/s to knit?
sweaters, tanks, and socks! things you can't buy at old navy.
17. What are you knitting right now?
Wouldn't you like to know! ha. I'm trying desperately to get a secret knitting project done for submission. I've also got some other design-y ideas, I'm on a design kick, i suppose.
18. What do you think about ponchos?
You know, I don't hate them like many would suppose. I can see the functionability of them. I don't have any, never knit one and have only seen a few that I like. I will probably have one with they loose a bit of popularity, just like nate minnis!
19. Do you prefer straight or circular needles?
Circ, all the way! (umm...ciculars, not circumcisism, that's just not cool).
20. Bamboo, aluminum, plastic?
I like aluminun, though the new bryspun circs are pretty nice too. Though I've got tons of small sizes, and lots of big ones too. I'm a big short on the middle sizes, 5-9s.
21. Are you a sock knitter?
yep! socks soar of 2 circs!
22. How did you learn to knit?
self-taught.
23. How old is your oldest UFO?
I don't really have any. I tend to have 3-6 projects going at once and I always finish, it's like books, can't leave them half read, I'm a bit funny that way.
24. What is your favorite animated character or a favorite animal/bird?
I have no reply to this.
25. What is your favorite holiday?
Winter holiday.
26. Is there anything that you collect
fiber. ha. And although I'm not really a collector, I LOVE, like, fucking love, Buffy! I've got all the seasons on dvd but season 6.
27. What knitting magazine subscriptions do you have?
vogue knitting, interweave knits and spinoff, cast on (by default) I wish I had ROWAN, but sadly, no.
28. Any books out there you are dying to get your hands on?
yep, the pluckyfluff book, and alden amos's bible of spinning (my pal natasha swears by it and she's sooo cool!).
29. Any patterns you have been coveting, but haven't bought for one reason or another??
can't think of one.
Jacey, thanks *so* much for the bamboo dyeing pep talk. I'm soaking a mini sample skein in soda ash solution now, I'm going to throw on some turquoise (which I have on good authority is really Procion, even though its labeled Sabracron F) and batch for 48 hours. Cross your fingers for me!
Posted by: claudia at September 14, 2005 02:18 PM