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Progress! Infinity Wrap

Posted in craft, gifts, knitting, wip, work-in-progress, tagged , , , , , on December 1, 2007 | 1 Comment »

So remember my frustration with lifelines and black mohair?  Progress has been made.  It’s about 40% done at the moment so I think it’ll be done in time for Christmas.  I’d write more, but seriously?  I’ve got knitting to do.

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The problem with Lifelines…

Posted in craft, gifts, knitting, original, wip, work-in-progress on November 26, 2007 | 1 Comment »

is that you have to insert them before you make a mistake. I accomplished the bit in the photograph early Friday morning. I suppose that this little piece of knitting was doomed from the start. I cast on with size 4 needles, which was entirely too small and then switched to 6.  After my posts acknowledging that [...]

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Let it snow

Posted in FO, craft, crochet, gifts, holiday, nablopomo, winter, tagged , , , , on November 10, 2007 | No Comments »

There’s snow in the forecast, though none has fallen in my area yet. Which provides a nice segue to a few more FOs. I’ve been crocheting snowflakes for the Holidays. In fact after doing about 5, I’ve started making up some of my own and I’m currently testing a pattern for someone else. Which [...]

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Red Fetchings

Posted in FO, gifts, knitting on March 27, 2007 | 2 Comments »

I finally took some pictures of the Fetchings that I made for my mother.

They were received quite well.
Close up of the beads.

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Mom’s scarf, in progress

Posted in So that happened..., craft, gifts, knitting, photography, photos, project on February 12, 2007 | No Comments »

Okay, so today I’m really reaching. Call it multitasking.

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“Carding” & “Spinning”

Posted in crochet, gifts, knitting, techniques on January 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »

The good news is, as the new year progresses, I’m slowly but steadily getting projects finished. (Including the mom’s-Christmas-present-from-hell-2-color-reversible-brioche-hat. It’s finally the right length and width, and the decreases are the way I wanted. Praise be, hallelujah. Unfortunately, I still have to do the scarf and I think I’m going to need more [...]

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