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Posted in finished object, gifts, knitting, stash, work in progress on Oct 24th, 2008
So since it’s been so long I have several project updates and a lot of stash enhancement to report…at least I have photos to make it more fun.
Pattern: Clapotis by Kate Gilbert
Yarn: Malabrigo Lace in Vaa colorway
Needles: US 8 (straight)
Notes: My first Clap, I liked the pattern. It was simple and the effect is [...]
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 [...]
Posted in finished object, knitting, resolutions, work in progress on Jul 3rd, 2008
I finished Ella’s B! YES, before she turned 2. That’s big, right? I’ll post pics later. I need to wash and block because seaming really stretched out the cotton squares. I’m hoping a wash and block will bring them to heel. So I don’t see little Ms. Ella dragging [...]
Posted in crochet, finished object, gifts, knitting, stash, work in progress on Jul 1st, 2008
So I did manage to finish one thing in June (w00t).
I give you my Charade socks
Pattern: Charade by Sandra Park
Yarn: Claudia Handpainted Yarns Fingering in Plumlicious
Needles: US 1 40″ circulars (Magic Loop)
Notes: These took me forever to get started, which is why it took me about 2.5 months to actually finish them. [...]
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 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 [...]