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Posted in knitting on August 10, 2009 | Comments Off
The Walker Treasury is back!
Posted in knitting, tagged knitting wtp swatch "walker treasury project" on October 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »
This is woven plaid, from Barbara Walker’s 2nd treasury. I actually knit this swatch last May 2007, when I was still a gung ho blogger. Consequently, I don’t have any thing new to say about it, since I barely remember doing it. But, I was really good and wrote up my thoughts at the [...]
How to knit a $94 neckwarmer (Free Pattern!)
Posted in copyright, craft, free, knitting, musings, nablopomo, pattern on December 17, 2007 | 18 Comments »
plus a bit of ranting, because nothing is ever really free of payment in some form, is it? (If you are only reading this for the pattern skip to the end. )
It’s already been established that I’ve turned into a intermittent blogger. I’d apologize for it, but I assure you I’ve had nothing to [...]
Progress! Infinity Wrap
Posted in craft, gifts, knitting, wip, work-in-progress, tagged black, cables, infinity, knitting, lace, mohair 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.
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 [...]
Country Gingham Tea Towel – Update
Posted in Country Gingham, craft, free, knitting, nablopomo, pattern, update on November 21, 2007 | 2 Comments »
I’ve noticed an upsurge in people downloading the pattern for the towel. First of all, thank you! You are awesome.
Secondly, I wanted to let you know that an update in the pattern is brewing as we speak. The update will include the fix for the mistake in the written instructions, expanded instructions for how exactly [...]
On Mistakes and reverence errors (pt 2)
Posted in craft, crochet, knitting, musings, nablopomo, tagged mistakes nablopomo on November 17, 2007 | Leave a Comment »
“Creativity is allowing yourself to make mistakes. Art is knowing which ones to keep.” -Scott Adams
This morning’s knitting
in the process of being frogged after I decided that a slip stitch selvedge would in fact make all the difference in the world to the final result.
When last we spoke (the rain doesn’t really count) we [...]
On Mistakes and reverence errors (pt 1)
Posted in craft, humor, knitting, musings, photography, photos, project on November 14, 2007 | 1 Comment »
frogged.
Recently I got involved in a discussion about making mistakes in your work, whether you fix them and what lengths you’ll go to if you do. Several theories on the subject were put forth. My personal favorite was this one, “If it doesn’t have a mistake in it, I didn’t knit it.” – adrian [...]
Making things and writing them down are not the same thing
Posted in FO, craft, knitting, musings, nablopomo, process, project, update, tagged craft, design, entrelac, FO, knitting, nablopomo, patterns, quinn on November 13, 2007 | 1 Comment »
That seems like such an obvious statement, doesn’t it? I certainly wouldn’t have expected to devote so much thought to the issue. I’ve mentioned before that I actually do write down how I make certain projects. I’m even in the habit of making new versions, so I can clarify the instructions in my [...]
Breast Cancer Awareness Illusion Knit Cloth
Posted in FO, craft, knitting, nablopomo, project, tagged , breast cancer awareness, pink ribbon on November 3, 2007 | 9 Comments »
I may not have blogged at all last month but I didn’t forget that October was Breast Cancer Awareness month. Michael’s was rather fortuitously practically giving away pink Sugar n’ Cream for a dollar a roll, so I snatched some up and decided that I really wanted to do a pink ribbon project in [...]
