Secret Agent Fiber Arts

To all you spinners:

Secret Agent — Fri, 06 Nov 2009 15:44:56 +0000

Win Jewelry! (And wanna test a pattern for me?)

Secret Agent — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 18:26:00 +0000

Romi, the designer of Muir, Waves of Grain, Ice Queen, Verdigris, and so many other pretty patterns, is giving away a copy of her Bluebird pattern! Isn’t it gorgeous?

Anyhow, she’s also running some sort of sale which I am totally ignoring as I am BROKE, but go check it out!

As for designing, I am desiging a knit SOMETHING that I hope will be Knitty.com worthy. It is possible, yes? So I need testers. I need someone to use sport weight yarn, about 250-300 yards, someone to use fingering weight yarn, about 400-500 yards (375 will probably be fine too! ), and someone to use laceweight yarn, I have no idea how many yards. Like, anywhere from 400-1600? lol

I am knitting the prototype in Chewy Spaghetti sport yarn, one of my prizes from Sheri at The Loopy Ewe. I need to take a picture of the yarn cake, the colours play sooooo prettily! Anyhow, I am knitting it up and I LOVE it.

So if you are interested test knitting the pattern for me (I’d REALLY be happy if it could be written, tested, and submitted to Knitty by Dec. 15, but I’ll not hold my breath!), email me at Secret Agent Knits at yahoo dot com or ping me on Twitter (@SecretAgentFibr) and we’ll talk! Being able to take pictures is a plus, but not a requirement.

Knit Comics! :)

Secret Agent — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 02:06:30 +0000

In lieu of actual knitting content (I am editing the photos, I promise! I’m actually in a mad dash to get some school photos in tonight; they are late already! I am procrastinating! Yay? Oh, and did I mention I’m sick? *sympathy plea* lol ), I thought I would show you two strips from my very favorite web comic:

And a couple strips later:

*giggles*

And then, there is a new(-ish?) comic that is JUST about Knitting!

Knit Princess is AWESOME.

G’night!

How do knits go viral?

Secret Agent — Tue, 03 Nov 2009 16:36:02 +0000

I think Multnomah is going viral. I really do.

Sheri knit one. Actually, she knit two. And Emma is knitting one.

I’ve actually seen it elsewhere, but I never bookmark, so you’ll (and by you I mean the spider who is my only reader, if you can say a robot reads) have to take my word for it!

But I want to make one, so I need to finish up some other WIPs. Mebbe it can be a reward knit? (I’m behind with college work, so can’t knit for me right now. Booo.) Too bad I’m sick right now, or I would totally be finishing up a few. I don’t want to embed the germs in the yarn. Weird, huh?

Not Just Socks Winner!

Secret Agent — Mon, 02 Nov 2009 22:28:09 +0000

Sorry I didn’t get to this on time, I am siiiiick. Maybe swine flue sick. No fun. Anyhow…

I had 4 entrants and 6 entries. Random.org chose the number 5, Anna! Congratulations, Anna!

I have emailed Marnie with your email address, so you should get your pattern very soon! Enjoy!

Wordless Wednesday

Secret Agent — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 16:08:28 +0000

I Dream of Yarn

More Wordless Wednesday

Salihan is giving away MALABRIGO!

Secret Agent — Wed, 21 Oct 2009 01:43:27 +0000

Ooooh, I want it!

Anyhow, you can enter at her blog, and here’s what I said I wanted:

I can hardly choose, but I think I have decided to go with Malabrigo Lace in Paris Night. Or Citrus. Or Brisa. Because I cannot decide! I’m envisioning an Ishbel for sure!

So pretty!

Sand Dollar Quilt

Secret Agent — Tue, 20 Oct 2009 22:34:05 +0000

Sand Dollars | Originally uploaded by km6xo

If you are a grandparent of mine (although I am not sure how you got the URL for my blog, because I haven’t told any family yet! ), or if you THINK you are one of my grandparents, or if you can’t keep a secret and you know or THINK you know one of my grandparents, don’t look!

Anyone else, come on in, I want your input!

My mother’s parents got engaged on a beach. It seems Grandpa gave Grandma a sand dollar and asked him to marry him, and then gave her the ring! Now Grandma collects sand dollars. Awwww! So I want to make them a quilt!

Okay, so I bought (today, actually!) some pretty sand dollar patterned fabric from the Etsy seller mineymo. I haven’t gotten it yet, but it’s been paid for and she is shipping it.

I’m getting a lot of 5 fat quarters and one 1/2 yard cut of this very pretty sand dollar fabric.

Photo from mineymo's Etsy Shop

Pretty, no?

And I’m planning to use a Rail Fence quilt block pattern, with a dark navy blue print or solid as the other side fabric, and something for the middle strip. My problem is I don’t know what colour to use for the middle accent colour!

I fiddled around in PhotoFiltre and came up with some colour combinations. Which one looks best?

A: Sand Dollar, a deep sea foam-ey colour, and Navy Blue

B: Sand Dollar, a light sea foam-ey colour, and Navy Blue

C: Sand Dollar, a tan/sand/gold colour, and Navy Blue

D: Sand Dollar, a turquoise-ey colour, and Navy Blue

All together for comparison:

Help!

Has my contest been copied by Stash & Burn?

Secret Agent — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 15:49:39 +0000

It seems that Stash & Burn is running a Beyond the Sock contest! LOL! They uploaded theirs 10 days after I started mine. I haven’t listened to the episode yet, but I suggest ya’ll take a look!

And no, I don’t *really* think Jenny and Nichole copied me. S’far as I know, they don’t even know this blog exists! But LOL!

Just as a reminder: Enter the Not Just Socks contest!

Win a set of interchangeable needles!

Secret Agent — Tue, 13 Oct 2009 13:37:42 +0000

Even though it seems that most of my readers are crocheters, I figured I’d give everyone a heads-up about a giveaway for knitting needles.

WEBS is hosting a giveaway at KnitPurlGurl. The prize is the WEBS brand Bamboo Interchangeable Knitting Set. I want it!

Anyhow, go take a look, and maybe enter! Thanks!