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Posted in knitting, ravelry, stash, work in progress on Jun 12th, 2008
So I signed up for June’s Bustin’ that Stash (Rav link), and of course the minute I agree to 1) knit 1000 yards of stash AND 2) not add to my stash I suddenly find all this yarn I haven’t counted. Another 1421.5+ yards unaccounted for to be exact…sheesh.
Here are the things [...]
Posted in gifts, knitting, ravelry, work in progress on Jun 9th, 2008
So one of the better ideas I’ve had was to create my own “sock club” a few months ago by taking the few sock yarns in my stash, pairing them with a pattern and putting them in a little tub so when I finish one pair I go pull another pair out. I’d been [...]
So not much knitting in May. I didn’t finish anything at all. I started the Charade socks (like 5 times) and a crochet shrug, but other than that not much movement.
I did manage to get my garden started in May though and now I’m ready to really start busting out the [...]
Posted in crochet, finished object, knitting, life, work in progress on May 12th, 2008
So here’s my rehash of the April knitting, it’ll be short, and my update on life in general.
I only finished one project in April, the Monkey socks (Rav link), which used about 286.5 yards of yarn not from my stash really since I bought it in March for these socks as a gift.
The gift was [...]
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, 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 [...]