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Posted in fever, knitting, life, work in progress on Aug 26th, 2008
So I have the summer blues, so this post will be totally random probably. I haven’t done crap on my August xmas socks. I cast them on, knit to the heel and realized they were too big. I’ve cast on again and done the cuff, but I”m afraid these are too small [...]
I could do something in crochet instead. I really hadn’t thought about that, but there are a couple of patterns I found on Ravelry that might work for either my Louet (I’ll have leftovers from the $1.50 Cardi anyway) or the Tilli Tomas. First, there’s Short and Sweet from Stitch ‘N Bitch Crochet: [...]
Posted in fever, gifts, knitting, work in progress on Apr 24th, 2008
Not much is going on actually, I have started/frogged/started a new sock project like 3 times. First it was going to be Jaywalkers, then the swatch looked like ass (completely my doing not the patterns) and it wasn’t doing it for me. Frog. So I found Charade and started that, then I [...]
Posted in fever, finished object, gifts, knitting, ravelry, work in progress on Mar 19th, 2008
Ok, really just one more. I finished my first ever socks! Woot. I finally realized that, yes “working one more stitch each row…” does mean row 1 is p5, row 2 is k6, row 3 is p7, etc. Sheesh. I guess I shouldn’t wait more than a week to cast [...]
Posted in fever, knitting, ravelry, work in progress on Feb 19th, 2008
Ok, so I did the gauge swatch for my first socks last night and I “cast on” in Ravelry all in an attempt to force myself to get over my irrational sock fear. I need to block my swatch before I measure, but I think I actually did get pretty close to gauge (which [...]
Posted in fever, knitting, stash, work in progress on Feb 14th, 2008
Ok, so I looked and I feel a little less bad about having to repurchase the Ovaltine yarn. I realized after looking at my PayPal account today that I actually paid for more than half the new yarn with the $ I got from selling off some of my stash yarn. So that’s [...]
Posted in fever, finished object, knitting, stash, work in progress on Feb 12th, 2008
Ok, sorry for the lapse (for the like 2 people who might read this). I’m all better now and back on track.
So I finished the hat, finally! It turned out pretty good. I could’ve made it a little longer still, but it turned out nice and it’s very cozy. I do [...]
Posted in fever, finished object, knitting, ravelry, stash, work in progress on Jan 22nd, 2008
Ok, no pics right now (I’ll add them later I guess), but here’s what’s going on around these knitting parts.
I started my sweater workshop at HCW’s. There are 8 of us in the class and it seems like it will be pretty good. I realized in class that I am bad at [...]
Got my Ravelry invite! YES. I am so staying up late playing on this.
Ok, so I just checked my Ravelry status and only around 1700 people ahead of me! So maybe in 3-4 days I’ll have my invite, I’m so excited I can hardly stand it. I cannot believe that there are over 4000 people behind me now too, ravelry fever continues I guess.