the blue blog archives: designers at work

I'm squeezing in (literally!) a little knitting design between the boys' Lego projects. They're always needing help putting axles together and taking bricks apart, so it's best if I don't go too far when I'm working.

The fruits of our labors? Well, all the main pieces of the sub set have been built and shown to friends and neighbors. B put together the big submarine and a little submersible that can fit inside it. Then he let his brother build a wicked cool robot sub, thereby earning himself another point for sharing. Clever boy!

And I snipped off a repeat of my hand-dyed Kool-Aid yarn (before giving it to my best knitbud, Lisa, for her birthday) to see how it knits up. Stripey goodness!

posted by alison at 9:42 am | in design workshop , dye job

Comments

Wow, really pretty!!

Posted by: trek at April 23, 2006 9:57 AM

Oh my goodness, I want to eat that yarn. I guess that's one of the dangers of using koolaid--it really looks like "food". (Is koolaid really food? Is candy? But the colours are so delicious!)

Posted by: Valerie at April 23, 2006 10:15 AM

Great stripes!

Posted by: Andrea at April 23, 2006 10:15 AM

Great colors--I used similar ones for my "Institution" yarn I made with Scout.

Posted by: Beverly at April 23, 2006 10:20 AM

Those stripes are so fun!

Posted by: Mary at April 23, 2006 10:27 AM

It doesn't get any more perfect than that!!

Posted by: kimberly at April 23, 2006 10:40 AM

Wow, I know you didn't love that purple but it's actually a nice counterpoint to the others, or as the Mason-Dixon ladies call it "balancing juicies and blahs".

Posted by: Cirilia at April 23, 2006 10:41 AM

Wow, great work on the submarines! And nice job on that hand dyed yarn. Love the colors!

Posted by: Kathode Ray Tube at April 23, 2006 11:51 AM

I love those colors! I have always wanted to try Kool Aid dye, and that just did it for me. Now I will have to do it.

Posted by: Miss Tonia at April 23, 2006 12:07 PM

wow! i love this kool aid stripes!!!
and i found your "rewards" inspirational... i wish my three year old loved lego too... do you remember how old where they when became interested??

Posted by: betty at April 23, 2006 1:25 PM

we have the same laptop! i love toshiba.

the blue in your stripes is ELECTRIC!

Posted by: reese at April 23, 2006 1:34 PM

The dye job is beautiful!

Posted by: Kris at April 23, 2006 3:59 PM

Fun colors!

Posted by: Chris at April 23, 2006 5:17 PM

Perfect! Your very own mini-ringel. Will themed self-striping sockyarn be next?

Posted by: Juls at April 24, 2006 1:17 AM

Mmm... stripey....

Posted by: Peeve at April 24, 2006 1:36 AM

Lovely yarn!! I'd love to do that some time too, only no kool-aid here in Norway :/

My sock pal has been making me very curious, sending out all kinds of secretive e-mails. I'm sure I'll get great socks this time as well, it seems like she's really making an effort to get it all perfect :)

AND I've finished the first of the Norwegian socks, but probably not in time to make the big update.

Posted by: Helene at April 24, 2006 6:33 AM

Kool stripes!

Posted by: Monica at April 24, 2006 9:53 AM

Betty, the boys had the big Primo/Baby legos when they were just able to hold and stack toys. They played with them from ages 2-4, until we passed them down to friends with a new baby. We got them started on the Duplo legos at 3 and they really enjoyed them. They still play with those too. For their 4th birthday, they got Duplo legos and a very small starter set of the smallest legos just as a trial. They seemed to do okay with them and then at about 4 1/2, just last October, we bought them their first real lego set. They were like naturals! We helped them build the first few things and they've been following the instructions by themselves ever since. It's definitely in their genes though. My husband was an engineering student and was always taking things apart as a kid. He was just as excited as they were that they were finally able to do real legos! I wasn't ever into them as a kid, but now I think they're pretty cool too!

Posted by: alison at April 24, 2006 12:23 PM

Ooh very pretty!!
:)

Posted by: Micky at April 24, 2006 6:37 PM

as someone who grew up playing with legos (we had the kitchen set, the original "plastic" conatiners that were impossible to see into and lots of flower parts - it's packed away somewhere) I must admit that I love seeing what they are coming out with now. My brothers and I could play for hours, both with the directions and with the basic pieces.

the stripes are lovely. Lovely.

Posted by: Kristen at April 24, 2006 11:31 PM

Posted by: Whitney at April 27, 2006 3:38 AM