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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 finished object, gifts, knitting on Apr 19th, 2008
I have finished the Monkey socks! Behold:
Pattern: Monkey by Cookie A.
Yarn: ShibuiKnits Sock in Jewel (#4401)
Needles: US 1 40″ circular (can’t remember brand)
Ravelry: More details here (Rav link)
Notes: This was a pretty easy and fast knit. The cuff seems a little tight, but other than that the fit [...]
Posted in finished object, knitting, life, work in progress on Apr 10th, 2008
So I realized this morning that I never did a wrap up post for March. So here it is.
I finished the Jitterbug socks, the Ovaltine cardigan, the Amelia Earhart hat (same post as Ovaltine), and the Brownie hat which I forgot to do a real FO post for.
So I finished 4 projects [...]
Posted in gifts, knitting, life, work in progress on Apr 9th, 2008
So not a lot going on right now. I have managed to get to the foot portion of my first monkey sock (pic hopefully to follow later), but have stalled out the last couple of days. I didn’t get any knitting done this past weekend and I’m sure that this weekend will be [...]
Posted in gifts, knitting, work in progress on Mar 28th, 2008
So I’m making some progress on the Monkey socks.
I’m liking the pattern, but I’m kind of bummed the colors are clumping up like they are. I have a lot of purple on one side and a lot of green on the other. It’s not terrible though, I mean I don’t care that much [...]
Posted in finished object, gifts, knitting, work in progress on Mar 21st, 2008
So wanted to do a real wrap up of the Jitterbug socks.
So here’s all the pics for the project, well all the good pics.
Pattern: Jitterbug Ballband Simple Sock Pattern (Colinette)
Yarn: Colinette Jitterbug in Tapis
Needles: US 1 40″ circular
Notes: Started off doing DPN’s, but decided against and frogged and did socks separate using [...]
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 gifts, knitting, work in progress on Mar 14th, 2008
So I don’t have any pics, and I don’t really have too much knitting updating to do. I’m depressed, I’ve had a rough week. I have been totally slacking on my 365 project I skipped Sun-Wed of this week. I did manage to take a pic yesterday so if I can repeat [...]
Posted in finished object, knitting on Mar 10th, 2008
So I finished Ovaltine on Thursday night (I think I mentioned that).
Pattern: Ovaltine from Big Just Got Bigger (Rowan)
Yarn: Rowan Biggy Print (Thunder) and Rowan Big Wool (Smoky)
Needles: US 19 (body/arms), US 15 (all bands and cuffs), US 13 (collar)
Notes: This wasn’t a bad knit, it went pretty fast because of [...]
Posted in knitting, ravelry, work in progress on Mar 7th, 2008
So I’ve been getting into podcasts a lot lately and I listened to one last night as I finished Ovaltine (DONE!) and I started thinking about how I got started knitting and it made me think that would be a good blog post, probably. I mean how could it be any worse than the normal [...]