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Sep 4, 2011, 8:41 pm
One of my most recent, non-secret, non-swap* finished objects was simultaneously a test knit for a Rav friend and a first birthday present for a local friend (well, technically the daughter of two local friends, but that's semantics). The pattern is the Daisy May Cardigan and it's adorable. It's eve... Comment - Like
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Aug 14, 2011, 8:45 pm
Ohai blog! I've missed you! This summer has been crazy, in the best possible way. Summer is the traditional time for travel in academia, and I definitely kept with tradition. Two observing runs, one conference, and some personal travel as well. What does a knitter do when traveling? Find the LYSs, o... Comment - Like
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Apr 4, 2011, 12:18 am
Write about your typical crafting time. When it is that you are likely to craft – alone or in more social environments, when watching TV or whilst taking bus journeys?
I have a few typical crafting times. First, on the bus to and from school. "On the bus route" was one of my top requirements fo... Comment - Like
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Apr 2, 2011, 10:44 pm
Is there a pattern or skill that you don’t yet feel ready to tackle but which you hope to (or think you can only dream of) tackling in the future, near or distant? Is there a skill or project that makes your mind boggle at the sheer time, dedication and mastery of the craft?
Well, there's not... Comment - Like
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Apr 1, 2011, 11:24 pm
This is an experimental blogging day to try and push your creativity in blogging to the same level that you perhaps push your creativity in the items you create. There are no rules of a topic to blog about (though some suggestions are given below) but this post should look at a different way to pres... Comment - Like
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Mar 31, 2011, 11:40 pm
Whatever happened to your __________? Write about the fate of a past knitting project. Whether it be something that you crocheted or knitted for yourself or to give to another person. An item that lives with you or something which you sent off to charity.
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Mar 30, 2011, 9:14 pm
How do you keep your yarn wrangling organised? It seems like an easy to answer question at first, but in fact organisation exists on many levels. Maybe you are truly not organised at all, in which case I am personally daring you to try and photograph your stash in whatever locations you can find... Comment - Like
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Mar 29, 2011, 6:16 pm
First of all, let's get this out of the way:
1UP! Yes!
Now on to the actual post.
Look back over your last year of projects and compare where you are in terms of skill and knowledge of your craft to this time last year. Have you learned any new skills or forms of knitting/crochet?
Answering this... Comment - Like
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Mar 28, 2011, 11:24 pm
Part of any fibre enthusiast’s hobby is an appreciation of yarn. Choose two yarns that you have either used, are in your stash, or which you yearn after and capture what it is you love or loathe about them.
Yarn #1: Anything from Fresh From the Cauldron
Jen's yarns are stunning. The colors are s... Comment - Like
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Mar 27, 2011, 12:27 pm
Another FO to share! (Yay for Daylight Savings Time and evening sun!)
Pattern: Charade by Sandra Park (Free on Rav)
Yarn: Fresh From the Cauldron's Alice Cullen
Ravelry Project Page
I love these socks, even though they took nearly a year(!) to finish. My first socks on Magic Loop. I like the techn... Comment - Like
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Mar 22, 2011, 6:12 pm
Remember the Lace Ribbon Scarf that I wasn't enjoying knitting? I will say that it got somewhat better after I memorized the pattern, but it was still never a thoroughly enjoyable knit. Now that it is finished, however, it is a thoroughly enjoyable FO!
I love it so much!
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Feb 12, 2011, 10:40 am
I know I'm about a month and a half late, but I thought I would post my Christmas knitting projects, just for kicks. Normally, I don't do Christmas knitting on principle. Imposing another deadline during that time of year is bad for my stress levels. I prefer to knit stuff for people year-round and ... Comment - Like
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Dec 18, 2010, 1:18 pm
Wow, I've made a lot of these lately!
For Peanut:
(Rav Project Page)
For MR:
(Rav Project Page)
For AM:
(Rav Project Page)
For JC:
(Rav Project Page)
An average baby hat takes me about three or four evenings to make...not too shabby!
Big thanks to Entrelac who destashed the yarn for the second a... Comment - Like
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Nov 28, 2010, 4:07 pm
Normally, I would classify myself as a Process Knitter, i.e. someone who knits for the sake of knitting, because it's an enjoyable thing to do, not necessarily because I end up with beautiful things at the end. (Heh, sometimes I end up with really ugly things at the end, actually.) I've been known t... Comment - Like
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Oct 10, 2010, 5:57 pm
I just got some really fabulous new fingering-weight yarn. Two October VSC2 yarns, both from the Sookie/True Blood series:
(Alcide Herveaux -- Mmm pretty greens!)
(Amelia Broadway -- Sparkly! And so many great colors mixed together!)
And two beautiful birthday presents, both part of Sunshine's Har... Comment - Like
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Sep 20, 2010, 5:14 pm
(Channeling the Yarn Harlot, naturally.)
1) I resumed working on a pair of socks that I hadn't touched in approximately a year. They are coming along nicely.
I really want to be good at toe-up, so I can stop wasting sock yarn. My biggest concern (besides the outrageously frustrating cast-on) is th... Comment - Like
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Aug 20, 2010, 6:30 pm
I'm definitely at the "everyone I know is having babies, or trying to" stage of life. It is wonderful, because I love babies! I can't have my own just yet, but I very much enjoy borrowing kiddos from my friends, and knitting for them is always a blast. Baby stuff is just cute, y'know? And it goes qu... Comment - Like
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Jul 17, 2010, 8:23 pm
Okay not really, but I thought that was a very summery title. Let's talk about yarn pooling.
I've been distracted by a lot of baby knitting lately, but I have made a bit of progress on my FFtC KAL socks:
I'm not sure how I feel about the way the colors are pooling. It's almost like they are spirali... Comment - Like
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Jun 24, 2010, 12:44 am
Remember back in January I started that dishcloth KAL? It didn't go so well. I finished the dishcloth eventually, but it wasn't 'til May when I finally sat down and cranked out the end of the cloth, mostly just to get it off my WIP list. It's a cute snowman pattern, but it's a big cloth, and I don't... Comment - Like
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Jun 5, 2010, 6:11 pm
I've been doing a bit of traveling lately, and like a good little knitter, I've visited a few LYSs along the way. First stop, Tallhassee, FL. I was there for an astronomy meeting, but had a bit of free time to sneak out to two lovely LYSs:
First was Wooly Bully. Loved it!
I actually ended up visiti... Comment - Like
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May 6, 2010, 8:54 pm
Lately, I've been stuck in a cycle: knit something as a semi-surprise gift for someone, take pictures, wait to post pictures to avoid ruining the surprise, finally get to the post office, mail it off, get excited when they receive it, forget to post those pictures. Oops!
Here's one of those, a Pinwh... Comment - Like
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Mar 6, 2010, 3:26 pm
I pinned out my scarf during the closing ceremony. Success!
It's over eight feet long. It's crazy! I kept knitting and knitting, thinking I'd knit to the end of the yarn, but it was just getting ridiculous. I stopped when it was just over six feet, unblocked. I used about 85g of yarn, and still... Comment - Like
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Mar 6, 2010, 3:13 pm
On that green. (Yeah, this one.)
These are the last pictures I will take of that scarf, at least when trying to get the color correct:
I think the first one is better. I think. But neither of them are correct, and the real color is kind of between the two. I feel a little bit better, though, 'c... Comment - Like
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Feb 26, 2010, 10:56 pm
Huzzah! Last week at Knit Night the aforementioned projects-gone-wrong were successfully frogged!
Calorimetry:
Tidal Wave Socks:
The lovely Leah even got a frogging-in-progress shot of the socks:
(Leah is graduating soon and currently doing the whole Academia Interview thing...send some good wis... Comment - Like
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Feb 15, 2010, 10:28 pm
The Ravelympics/Knitting Olympics have begun!
I cast on for my Love Bites scarf during the opening ceremonies:It's coming along...slowly...definitely more of a marathon event.
But the real point of this post is the "prelims" for the sprint event I'm doing, the Aerial Unwind, aka Frogging. Here are ... Comment - Like
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Jan 20, 2010, 3:13 pm
The official events list has been released: click here!
I'm really excited about the Aerial Unwind, aka The Frogging Event. I've got three projects that need frogging, and have needed it for years. They will be tackled. I think I am also going to make a scarf -- shocker, I know!
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Jan 9, 2010, 4:27 pm
From socks and scarves, at least. To dishcloths, which I've never knit before. Nope. I wasn't planning on making more cloths any time soon, actually, 'cause I have quite a few, but then Kris started a mystery knit-a-long! I've never done a mystery KAL before, because they are usually for large p... Comment - Like
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Jan 9, 2010, 4:15 pm
The color on that turquoise yarn is still vexing me. But I think I've figured out the first step in fixing it, which is correcting the saturation. I was reading about photographing intense reds (related to red yarn, of course, because that's apparently all I take pictures of anymore...) and they... Comment - Like
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Jan 6, 2010, 3:15 pm
I wish I had exciting things to blog about, y'all. Really, I do. But I'm still on my Sock & Scarf kick, leaning heavily toward scarves. And shawlettes, which are basically scarves...and my current favorite way to use some of my FFtC yarn, which I've lately been completely unable to stop purchasin... Comment - Like
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Dec 23, 2009, 4:30 pm
I'm not very good at composition, so I often read lists of tips and tricks to try to improve. Most of 'em (like this one, for example) recommend having a non-distracting background, so I try to clear out background objects when possible, especially when taking yarn pictures. But sometimes I think ... Comment - Like
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Dec 11, 2009, 6:53 pm
Last weekend, when mom and I went down to see PW, we also stopped by Houston Camera Exchange. I was hoping they'd have a C-Lux 3 in store for her to play around with, but they didn't. She ended up getting a Nikon Coolpix, her very first digital camera! While she was looking at those, I asked the ... Comment - Like
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Dec 5, 2009, 11:18 pm
Last year I got to meet Stephanie Pearl-McPhee (The Yarn Harlot). Today I got to meet Ree Drummond (The Pioneer Woman). I can now die and go to Bloggy Heaven! Those are the first two blogs I ever read, back before blogs were something everyone had, back before I'd discovered Google Reader, and so ... Comment - Like
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Nov 16, 2009, 6:31 pm
I'm back! (Three months after I said I might be blogging more...nice...) And I have a conundrum, a quandry, a puzzle. I got some yarn in the mail this afternoon. It's cloudy and dark outside (I miss Daylight Savings!) so I thought, it's okay, I can take pictures inside. They won't be great, but... Comment - Like
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Aug 29, 2009, 7:22 pm
That's pretty much what I'm knitting these days! If you check out my Rav progress bars, you'll see that all of my currently-listed WIPs are either socks or scarves. Socks are perfect for the bus, and scarves are good for TV and movies. I've actually got a pair of wristers going that I haven't add... Comment - Like
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Aug 10, 2009, 4:24 pm
After three months of almost non-stop travel, for both business and pleasure, it's good to be home for awhile. My office may not be fancy, but it works for me, and it's good to be back!
ETA: Interesting...I blogged this from my iPhone, and it kept one of the paragraphs of the email, but not the othe... Comment - Like
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Jun 28, 2009, 1:39 pm
I've been on a bit of a dishcloth kick lately! They are fun, easy, cheap, and quick to make, and they don't take a lot of brainpower, which is nice. I started off making four for my brother and his camp to use this summer. They get green scrubbies for washing dishes, and while those are great for... Comment - Like
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