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Posted in gifts, knitting, stash, work in progress on Jun 30th, 2008
So I got my stash enhancements last week.
Remember, I got the Louisa Harding Nautical Cotton in #09 (Forest).
Elann’s Callista in black.
And Elann’s Coto Canapone in Medici Purple, the purple is much darker when not in direct sunlight like the photo.
So that’s all making me very happy. The Nautical Cotton is a great color as well [...]
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 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 knitting, work in progress on Feb 18th, 2008
So I made decent progress this weekend. I didn’t get a whole lot of knitting time, but I managed to seam the second row of squares on Ella’s blanket and seam the 1st and 2nd rows together. I also seamed 2 squares on the last row, but still need to block my final [...]
Posted in knitting, work in progress on Feb 15th, 2008
I am super psyched about my blanket for Ella today. I finished the 8th square and CO and got half way through the last one last night while listening to Stash and Burn. Dude, I so love this podcast thing.
Anyway, I also finished the second front piece for Ovaltine, so I just gotta [...]
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 [...]