http://fiberfiend.com/blog One Fiend's Adventures in Knitting, Spinning, and Dyeing Fri, 22 Aug 2008 18:06:24 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I think my lumbar facet injections (all 3 of them) went really well on Wednesday. The doctor injected lidocaine and cortisone into the three lowest lumbar facet joints on the right side of my spine. When the needles went in and he first injected the contrast dye (so ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/08/a-quick-update.html Last year for my friend Hannah's birthday, I wrote her a pattern for a Hello Kitty Knitting Notions Bag, because she's kinda crazy about Hello Kitty. Some of you might remember my first attempt at this bag, which didn't turn out so great. I don't know why I ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/08/hannahs-hello-kitty-knitting-notions-bag.html Adelina (Ravelry link) was the lucky buyer and Rachel won the blog contest! Congrats, you two! Adelina chose Seascape, Natalia, and Ladybird Baby Sweater as her three free patterns. Woot! http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/08/200th-corsica-finally-sold.html Yesterday I met my official "goal" for the Ravelympics: I finished the Fat Bottom Bag (Ravelry link) (from Stitch n' Bitch Happy Hooker): my Rowan Plaid Short-Sleeved Cardigan (Ravelry link) (my design): and Cathode (Ravelry link) (from Knitty): However, my real goal for the Ravelympics WIP Wrestling is to finish as many WIPs ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/08/ravelympics-goal-met-but-im-still-going.html Go Team Bobaknit! I'm competing in the Ravelympics as a part of Team Bobaknit in the WIPs Wrestling event. I'm going to try to complete three WIPs during the course of the Summer Olympics, starting at 8pm Beijing time, or 5am PST, which means, between the time I wake ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/08/laptop-and-the-ravelympics.html Back Pain won. Unfortunately, I'm doing much worse this week. I saw my doctor on Monday and he poked around to see where exactly the pain is the worst and since then I've been pretty much constantly fighting off the urges to black out and be sick. ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/07/back-pain-vs-lambtown.html Many of you have already received this pattern on a postcard at a fiber festival from me, but I ran out of postcards, so I decided I would create a pdf of this pattern so anyone can download it for free. You can find the pattern written out and a link ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/07/spiral-hat-pattern-now-available-as-free-pdf.html Since I mentioned it yesterday, I thought I had better have a proper post about it! My Trees Baby Sweater is an easy fair-isle sweater knits up quickly in worsted weight yarn! It's the easiest of the three baby sweater patterns I have (the other two being Lizard ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/07/trees.html I'm going to have a booth at Lambtown in Dixon, CA next Saturday July 19th, so if you're in the neighborhood or up for a road trip, come on by and check it out! I'm hoping to have 2 new Fiber Fiend creations to debut: a felted cabled purse ... http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/07/lambtown.html I just added links to the Flickr Galleries and Ravelry pattern pages to the last 3 patterns I posted.  Sorry I forgot about those when I first posted about the patterns!  I'll try not to forget in the future!  =) http://fiberfiend.com/blog/2008/07/a-quick-note.html