knitting update + some soap base

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since the gracious plsurkity  has been so good as to give me instructions for posting images without a paid account, i am able to provide pictures here-to-fore unavailable.


these are the cotton socks i finished



these WILL be marie antoinette socks. they still kinda look like cat yak, but i think they will be better when blocked. and i like the bee pattern - which you can kinda see here, but mostly its smooshed.


these are my brother amos socks. i'm currently a lot further along than this. it is my first attempt at knitting socks 2 at a time. so far so good. cross your fingers for me.
this fleece artist really is this gorgeous. actually it's more gorgeous since there's a hint of raspberry in there with the reds and browns and black.


i got this yarn at borealis to make a clapotis for my sister in law. it is actually much prettier than the picture shows.


and this is the latest batch of soap base i made. it is now all grated for re-batching, but i thought this batch came out particularly nicely. it has a lovely creamy color to it and you can smell the olive oil i used. we really just need me to make more soap, since we were running low, and i'm honestly looking forward to coming up with creative combinations for this, but it seems to be timely in other ways as well. one of the ladies at the local coffee&chocolate shop has asked me if i'd be interested in going in on a craft booth. that could be very neat.

Comments

[dragonintherain.livejournal.com]

that soap looks really nice. :) you make it from scratch?

[frog-lady.livejournal.com]

Is soap base somehow different from soap? (Is it the "plain" soap to which you add other scents/scrubby things?)

[patchhat.livejournal.com]

"the gracious plsurkity has been so good as to give me instructions for posting images without a paid account"

i've actually been curious about this myself... would you mind passing along the ancient secret of photo posting for poor people? *hopeful grin*

[keisolo.livejournal.com]

Purrowr.

Must learn make socks. want learn make socks. Pretty pretty socks.

Want more learn make soap. Find time to, also, yes.

Kicking myself out of half yoda half drenni speech, the soap part is almost becoming necessary, given my allergies to a large chunk of common typical commercial ingredients, and the price of most better-made.