Finished Objects and Other Things

Tuesday I was able to take the rugs off the loom. Here they are before I cut them apart.

I finished the second rug first. All it needed was tying knots to keep the fringe in place.

The other rug was the first one woven. I found some missed warp threads, but I'm not going to worry about it. (I dare you to try to find them!) I did better as I got more experience, and I didn't find any in the other one, although I found and corrected a few while I was weaving and it was easy to fix.

Now I'm ready to warp the loom for rugs for the trailer. I can use the same tie-up, just fewer warp threads. I plan to use the black, turquoise and grey cotton yarn for warp and throw in some white, just because I still have some. The warp will make vertical stripes, which I think will be pleasant. The yarn is Sugar 'n Cream (black, grey and white) and Peaches & Creme (turquoise).

I don't have much quilting cotton and Indonesian batik left I want to use for rugs, so I may have to break down and buy some cheap cotton to use for this. I'd like to use mostly fabric that's yarn-dyed or where the color bleeds through to the wrong side, because when the fabric is printed on one side and almost white on the other, I feel I have to fold it with the wrong sides together as I work, so most of what shows is the print. That's tedious. I have more than half of the warp wound. I put the warping board on my stove, with a towel underneath to protect it.

I don't have a nice place to hang it on the wall where I can use it, but this works well, because I don't have to bend over or reach up high, and it stays put while I work. All that's on it in this photo is my guide string. Here it is with the fourth set of warp threads:

Just one more set to go.

Here's the warp I've already wound and taken to the loom.

I finished another project for Pippa, still as part of the Knit-Along in the Goetz Doll group on Ravelry. This was. Layer Cake. I thought I would get 8 sts/inch with the yarn and needles I chose, but it was closer to 7 sts/inch, so if I make this pattern again, I'm going to go down to a 2.25mm needle.

Here's the back.

It's totally seamless, which I love. No sewing up to do.

Saturday I fixed my favorite Indian Red Lentil Soup recipe, using our home-grown chard. I made garlic naan to go along with it.

Life in the doggie nursing home has calmed down a bit. Rocky is off the pain medication and the antibiotic as of a week after his surgery and seems to be doing well. He's getting around better, too. Now it's just the regular medications and eye drops to do. It's much easier to keep straight! Our groomer has agreed to break up Rocky's grooming appointment into two parts at a time separate from Dusty's to minimize the energy he has to expend all at once. She will wash and brush out one day and the next day we will go back for the clip.

The weather has cooled off enough for us to go for walks along the trail early in the day or in the evening. We need to take water, though, and a spray bottle filled with water, too, in case the pups get too warm. Rocky rides in the stroller most of the way, but he really enjoys it, and we let him out to walk on his own for short periods. We use the Walk for a Dog app when we walk, and periodically they make a donation to Best Friends, the dog-related charity we picked out. It's supported by advertising.

Things on the trail are interesting, as usual. There is often something new to see. The Little Library has been there for as long as we have lived here, but this is new:

We did see Oscar, but I didn't get a photo. Dusty was interested in making friends but then thought better of it.

This is fun. These people have a little sign at each knothole in the fence, as well as a birdhouse on each fence post and a clever little weather vane (upper left). The thing that looks like a mailbox says, "Messages." The wire basket sometimes holds informational brochures. A knothole down at child level (not in photo) says, "Peek-a-boo!"

This was also new, next door to the people who invite you to look into their garden. I can only guess it is meant to depict what happens to people who look over their fence. The dark pair on the left was wet from the knee down on the left leg. I suspect that a dog was leaving a commentary on the display. Dusty wouldn't go anywhere near these creatures, though.

The same people have these signs on the fence a little further to the right. The yellow sign on the left says, "Bigfoot got a baby dragon for a pet. I am not happy with what it is eating!"

Quite a bit of time was taken up with working on the new book. I roughed out the layout. It looks like it's going to be two pages longer than the first book.

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What's on my needles: Um....I may have a WIP somewhere.

What's on my loom: Getting ready to warp for Camping Raggedy Rugs.

What's on my sewing machine: Sweatshirt for Pippa

What's in my hoop: Still the Whole Cloth Quilt. A little more progress this week.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: "Hair Today, Curly Next Week? Part One."

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Finished The Little Old Lady Who Broke All the Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg. Now listening to The Daughter of Sherlock Holmes by Leonard Goldberg, also on Chirp.

What's in my wine glass: Placer Andaluz Chardonnay 2020.

What's my tip of the week: I like to turn my yarn that comes on cones into center-pull skeins. It's a bit difficult to get the cone out of the yarn. Here's what I do. See where the cone sticks out above the yarn? I turn the yarn over and whack it on the counter a few times, then try to pull the yarn away from the cone and down on the side that's up (the base). I might need to repeat the procedure a couple of times, but eventually, it will come loose. After it's out, I pick a piece of yarn from the hole and pull it out. (I hadn't figured it out when I used the grey cone. I have the working yarn coming out of the wrong end, and it sometimes tangles.)

Where's my book: Mariah: Stories from the Doll's Storybook is available from Amazon worldwide. Also available from BookBaby, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers. Royalties go to support pediatric cancer research and treatment. The three stories in the book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. The stories (and links to them) are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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Whew, Too!

This is fun!

I have about 12" to go on the second rug. I expect to be able to show them off next week. (The bows tied in a few placed right at the edge of the rug help me keep track of how long the rug is. Each bow represents 10") I'm finding the Sugar 'n Cream yarn, usually used for dishcloths, etc., to be very easy to work with as warp. I had to go out to Joann's for some clear vinyl material for another project I had planned, and I picked up a couple more cones, but in black and sort of a turquoise. I think it will be fun to have the warp make stripes when I'm done with these two rugs and warp the loom again. I've found the batiks easy to work with, because the color goes through to the back. These are not quilting batiks, although I'm sure the same would be for those. These are traditional batiks with a pattern, like the one you can see that I'm currently working with. Fabric that's printed on one side and almost white on the back looks better if you fold it in half with the wrong side on the inside, even as it gets scrunched up when you beat it in. You don't have to bother doing that with the batiks. I have a lot of traditional batik fabric from our time in Indonesia left over from other sewing projects. This is a good use for it.

I'm still participating in a knit-along (KAL) on Ravelry. The "Sweetpeas" pattern from last week was part of that. This week I finished another pattern from the same designer. This one is Map Dot: Watonga. It's designed for the larger Happy Kidz, but I used my formula to find out what gauge I needed for Little Kidz dolls like Pippa, and it worked out. I divide the gauge in the pattern for Happy Kidz by .8 and that gives me the gauge I need for Little Kidz. Sometimes this means using thinner yarn, because I don't want the resulting fabric to come out stiff. I went down on needle size, too, of course. Fortunately, I've knit with this yarn before using the same gauge as I needed, so I could check and make sure what the needle size was.

The top buttons down the back.

The pants were easy to make and very quick. The method is sort of like making gloves, but with fewer fingers.

I use my sourdough starter to make pizza dough. I made this to keep busy while Rocky was in surgery on Thursday. After I had the dough ready, I discovered I didn't have any pasta sauce, which is what I usually put on before the toppings. I did have some canned tomatoes, however, and it was easy to make some.

Speaking of Rocky, you may remember from last week that he had a bad encounter with the dog door that required emergency treatment. He is walking much better, but we didn't want to have that happen again. We decided to replace the flap with a clear plastic fringe to keep the bugs out. That was what took me to Joann's. I bought the kind of clear vinyl material often used for things like furniture slipcovers and table covers. You can buy it by the yard. It isn't very thick, but not flimsy, either. DH measured how big I needed to cut the piece and we figured out how wide the strips needed to be to go across the opening evenly. They are all attached where I cut the strips up to 1" from the top. Here's what Rocky sees going out.

Here's what it looks like coming in.

We got the idea from a relative in Finland who had something like this instead of a screen door. It works great to keep the bugs out.

Rocky's procedure went OK. He's still getting pain medication and antibiotics. He has a very complicated schedule for his regular medication and drops for his eye condition. We decided not to get a biopsy of the lump removed from his lip. The vet removed extra from the margins, just in case, but he didn't think it looked like something cancerous. In consulting with him, we also didn't think treatment with chemo at his age would be a good idea. The vet also removed a back molar, which had something wrong with the root that could have damaged the adjacent tooth and caused pain later on. The remaining pearly whites got a nice cleaning. We expect this will be his last cleaning. In fact, we thought the cleaning 18 months ago would be the last one. At the rate he's going, we could very well have him around for his 17th birthday. We should throw a party.

Another thing that's keeping me busy these days is working on my next book. This one will feature Emil. I made the cover last year when I had the program needed to make the cover for Mariah. I just swapped out the photo, changed the name and the background color and saved it.

Daphne has been helping me pick the stories to go in the book. They will be:

Best Buds

Getting What You Want

The Boys Cook Dinner

I'm doing some editing and changing out some of the photos to make them more appropriate for a book and for other reasons, such as to include Emil in them, to have the doll on a skateboard wear a helmet, because a photo was included in another story in the book or the previous book, or to improve photo quality.  I'm hoping to have it ready to send off by early August.

Also on the grandchild front, here's Johan, off to day camp. (That prominent front tooth is no longer prominent. In fact it's missing. It's mate may also be missing by the time you read this.)

Have a good week!

Where's my blog: If you have been following my blog and want to continue following, I recommend you go here and sign up to follow.

What's on my needles: Another KAL item for Pippa.

What's on my loom: The second rug, almost done.

What's on my sewing machine: Leggings for Pippa and Happy Kidz.

What's in my hoop: Still the Whole Cloth Quilt. A little more progress this week.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: The Boy Doll Who Cried Wolf. The dolls reenact the old Aesop's Fable with a couple of twists.

One idea I have for a future book is three stories all based on classic tales, like this one.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Finished Florence Grace by Tracy Reese on Audible. It was an engrossing tale. Now listening to The Little Old Lady Who Broke All The Rules by Catharina Ingelman-Sundberg on the Chirp app. It's hilarious. Five residents of a nursing home decide to find a way to go to prison based on a documentary they watched that portrayed life in prison in an overly positive light. They steal some valuable paintings and then turn themselves in, but their adventures are a bit like the old Keystone Cops movies. Good fun!

What's in my wine glass: The Portuguese Red Blend by Casa Santos Lima. A nice wine in a very pretty label.

What's my tip of the week: I often wash plastic zippered bags to use again unless they have a leak or are just too messy to be able to clean up. After they drain for a bit, I need another place for them to finish drying. I have a little pitcher with skewers and straws in it. It's perfect for hanging the plastic bags once they're no longer dripping.

Where's my book: Mariah: Stories from the Doll's Storybook is available from Amazon worldwide. Also available from BookBaby, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers. Royalties go to support pediatric cancer research and treatment. The three stories in the book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. The stories (and links to them) are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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Whew!

It has been a crazy week! The first rug has moved along quickly. This was Tuesday:

By Friday the first rug was done, except for cutting from the warp and finishing the edges. I needed to leave some space between the edge of the first rug and that of the second to allow for a short fringe, so I wove in a few inches of the warp yarn before weaving the edge of the second rug. (You can fill this space with a strip of cardboard or some lease sticks, but I'm using waste yarn, which can be recycled into a dishrag if I choose.)

Here's where I was as of Sunday (yesterday, if you're reading this the day it posts). The arrow points to the place in the cloth where the first rug stopped. You can see it winding around the cloth roller. The little colored bows are my 10" markers. I already have another 10" on the second rug. I'll tie a string around the edge threads of the warp to mark 10"

I plan to make some rugs for the trailer, too. I just need to measure how big they can be. I think this warp is too wide.

You may remember I was finishing up my Brioche Shawl Feathers shawl last week. Monday I finished the bind off and weaving in the ends. I gave her a nice bath and set up the blocking mats on the dining room table. (I had thought that my work table would be big enough, but she "grew" some with washing, as superwash yarn sometimes does.) I found it convenient to use the parts of the edge where the stitches increase to make points, rather than having to bend over the blocking mats all day putting in an infinitesimal number of pins for a smooth curve. I rather like the effect.

This photo reminded someone of Ruth Bader Ginsberg's "dissent" collars. I should have knit it in black and white! However, I find the colors pleasing and the yarn soft and warm. The I-cord upper edge ended up about the right length, but the depth from center to edge was more than the pattern indicated, which means my gauge was probably off. Not really any surprise, as I tend to knit loosely, and I didn't do a gauge swatch (for a shawl, which doesn't have to fit). I'm pretty sure this is why I ran out of yarn.

I decided to cast on for a dress for Pippa (although it will probably go to Daphne for her Rebekah). I wanted to participate in a KAL on Ravelry featuring patterns by this designer. We're using the first six designs currently shown on the website.

It turned out a little long. I think it's because I knit loosely and I didn't bother to do a gauge swatch. (A doll dress makes a great gauge swatch, I think.) I didn't have enough green buttons for the dress, so I decided to use pink and make it a design feature.

I added the extra button at the bottom in the 75th row, worked one more row of border/hem and then BO in purl. Details for the project are here.

I had a box of our daughter's doll clothes I need to go through. I had planned for us to do it last Christmas, but, as you know, our Christmas visit didn't happen. I have been going through them and I noticed that some of them (the ones made for her Fisher Price My Friend dolls) seemed to be close to Pippa's size. Sure enough, some of the items fit. The hat is big enough for the larger Happy Kidz, but the hoodie was a perfect fit.

I found this pattern and this one for the dolls among my sewing patterns. The hoodie wasn't included, but I think I may have used a blouse or shirt pattern with the hood from the cape, and improvised the pocket. This dress, which I think was in the McCall's pattern, was almost perfect. (It needs pressing, but I wanted to be sure it would fit before going to the trouble.)

The bodice front is a perfect fit. The only issue is the back, which is too big. That means I would only have one pattern piece to modify.

It's amazing the dress fits as well as it does, considering that this is the doll it was designed for. (Photo from here.)

As you can see, the Fisher Price Mandy doll has almost no shoulders, and the head is quite large, which makes the shoulders appear even smaller. Pippa and the other Little Kidz dolls are bigger in the shoulders than other dolls currently being produced in their size range. The hats fit the larger Happy Kidz dolls quite well, as you can see from this photo I took for this Friday's story.

Some of the shoes fit, too, and I've been using them for Pippa. 

What's the plan for all these doll clothes, you might ask? I plan to go through them and see what fits a doll Daphne has, wash and/or iron anything that needs it and send them all to her, although I might keep the brown "straw" hat for now. Maybe she can wheedle it out of me when she's here at Christmas, but I think I have some temporary use for it. There were also duplicate pairs of shoes that fit. I may be able to use some of the patterns with some minor modifications. Some of the clothes may not be worth rehabilitating. We will decide that when our daughter is here.

When this "care package" goes off, I will have to tuck in something for Zachary's dolls, too.

Yes, boys do play with dolls, especially when a car just the right size shows up. 

These are Lukas and Matthias (sp?) in a car belonging to our honorary granddaughter, Elsie. Johan thought it was fun to let the two dolls drive/ride. Today is his birthday!

Rocky needed some attention this week. The pups went to the groomer on Wednesday, and when I picked them up, Rocky was so tired he had trouble walking. That evening, he got hung up in the dog door and injured himself. The next day his hind end kept giving out. We were afraid he might have dislocated his hip again or perhaps had nerve damage, so we took him to the emergency vet. The diagnosis was that it was either arthritis combined with some soft-tissue damage or a mild slipped disc. Because of his advanced age, the emergency vet didn't recommend doing X-rays or an MRI, the only way to be sure. He said that if it was a slipped disc, it wasn't too severe and, a dog as old as Rocky was not a good candidate for major surgery. The treatment is the same: pain and anti-inflammatory medications, and restricted activity. As I write this, he seems much steadier on his feet, but I now have two more medications to give him, in addition to his thyroid and blood-pressure pills and his eye drops. He still sleeps a lot.

Rocky also has a growth on his lip that needs to be removed, and it's scheduled for Thursday. The pre-op blood work showed his liver and kidneys are working well. The vet said Rocky had good genes. This is minor surgery, and they will clean his teeth again while he's sedated. I always worry when he has to be sedated, but he should come through this fine. Rocky will be 17 years old on August 31st.

We're going to have to work out something else for grooming. Perhaps the groomer can do the process in stages, rather than all at once, or maybe I'll need to replace the clippers I gave away when we left Park City and do Rocky at home.

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What's on my needles: Um...I haven't decided yet.

What's on my loom: Still two rag rugs.

What's on my sewing machine: Its cover, but I plan to make another doll bathing suit or two.

What's in my hoop: Still the Whole Cloth Quilt. A little more progress this week.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: "Lightning." Pippa is disappointed that she can't go to the beach. Mandy explains the danger of lightning, and the dolls make a pretend visit to the beach instead.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Listening to Florence Grace by Tracy Rees. I enjoyed her Amy Snow, but this is entirely different. It's also very interesting.

What's in my wine glass: Tuscana Sauvignon Blanc, 2020. Very nice. I'm enjoying the white wines in the warmer weather.

What's my tip of the week: I knead my bread on the counter above my dishwasher with the door slightly ajar. Any bits of flour that fall of the edge of the counter fall into the dishwasher. When I'm done with the kneading, I can open the dishwasher a little more and scrape the leftover flour into it. When it runs again, it will clean it all up. (It's so much easier than wiping it off the floor, although that might give one motivation to wash the floor.)

Where's my book: Mariah: Stories from the Doll's Storybook is available from Amazon worldwide. Also available from BookBaby, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers. (If you don't get free shipping from Amazon or B&N, buy directly from Book Baby. Royalties go to support pediatric cancer research and treatment, and Book Baby doesn't take an additional cut. That means that half of the cost of the book goes to our chosen charity. The three stories in the book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. The stories (and links to them) are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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Finally!

The loom is actually in use for weaving!

I'm using 1 1/2" wide bias strips of quilting cotton for weft. That takes a lot of washing, ironing and cutting, but this will give my body something different to do for a break from knitting, and we do need some throw rugs.

Speaking of knitting, I picked up the Brioche Shawl Feathers shawl again, now that the Kevät is done. The first two rows I worked after starting up again were easy, as if I hadn't put it down for nearly eight weeks. Then I hit the br4sts_dec and couldn't remember how to do it. It was frustrating, because I had struggled to learn it when I first had to do it, but then it was almost automatic. It was a little easier to learn to do the second time, but I had to resort to watching the YouTube video again. It isn't the first thing in this video. She had to get into the row a bit, but then it gets complicated:

Soon she had me on my way again. Here you can see the decrease made to the right of the needles and more needing to be made just to the left.

The rest of the rows were easy, and soon I was working the I-cord bind-off. (The pattern recommends a slightly larger needle for this BO.

The marker is where the right end of my lifeline is fastened. I'm not taking it out until I'm done with the BO. Here's the video of the BO, although I finish each set with SSK, rather than K,sl,psso.

You may remember from last week that I had taken the curtains in the fiber studio down so I could add tabs to go over the planned curtain rod above the window. The tension rod I was using kept falling down whenever I raised or lowered the shade. Friday we pulled out the trundle, then the day bed, and installed the curtain rod, with much moaning and gnashing of teeth. (It wasn't easy to get in behind the day bed.) We finally got it up, and I added the tabs to the top of the curtains, fastening them by sewing a button onto each tab. This is working much better.

The fiber studio is much tidier, but I still have a pile of "pressing business" on the floor.

All this fabric is left over from other projects. It's been washed and dried. Now it needs to be ironed and cut into 1 1/2" bias strips for weaving.

Our chard has been enjoying the hot weather. We harvested some on Saturday.

It was tasty, stems chopped and sautéed with mushrooms and peppers, with the leaves thrown in at the end.

I'm happy the loom is finally functional. I'm happy to be binding off the Brioche Shawl Feathers Shawl. I'm happy to have the fiber studio straightened out and the curtains up. Finally!

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What's on my needles: Brioche Shawl Feathers shawl.

What's on my sewing machine: Now that the curtains are done, the cover is back on the machine. It was great for sewing all those buttons on!

What's in my hoop: Still the Whole Cloth Quilt. Actually a little more progress this week.

What's in The Doll's Storybook: "The Dolls' Request." The dolls are enjoying the summer weather.

What's on my iPad/iPhone: Finished The Rose Code by Kate Quinn. Very interesting story. Very well written. Just starting Florence Grace by Tracy Rees.

What's in my wine glass: Primi Soli Sangiovese. I love this one! DH says it's because it's actually from grapes grown in Italy.

What's my tip of the week: When you're busy doing any kind of repetitive activity, schedule breaks, so your body can do something else for a while. You'll be glad you did. (Or, more likely, you'll be sorry you didn't!)

Where's my book: Mariah: Stories from the Doll's Storybook is available from Amazon worldwide. Also available from BookBaby, Barnes & Noble and other booksellers. Royalties go to support pediatric cancer research and treatment. The three stories in the book first appeared in the blog and they are reproduced with few changes. The stories (and links to them) are Being Little, Besties, and Distraction.

Note: This blog post was produced on the iPad and the MacBook, using the iPhone for some photos and some photo processing. No other computer was used in any stage of composition or posting, and no Windows were opened, waited for, cleaned or broken. No animals or dolls were harmed during the production of this blog post.

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