Monday, October 15th, 2007
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11:35 am - quickie
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Washcloth and scrubbies for mom's xmas gift (will also include matching sewn placemats for diningroom.)
Washcloth is smaller version of baby blanket I posted a while back; scrubbie is sewn in parallelegram shape, then short ends sewn, then long ends gathered. (Left one unfunished so you could get the idea.)
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Tuesday, September 11th, 2007
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2:10 pm - oi
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trying to get this on the needles: http://www.knitlist.com/00gift/round-baby-blanket.htm
That cast on 5 and knit in the round is a BITCH! The only other time I've done that before has been on felted stuff and it usually doesn't matter how it looks so I didn't sweat it so much but I've spent the whole morning casting on, knitting, and ripping this out, lol. I think I've finally got it the first two rounds and am ready to do the first row of increases and hope I don't screw it up because I don't think I can bear restarting again. Ugh. Once I finally get going I don't think I'll have a problem...I think? Hopefully it's not twisted - there's really no way to tell this early. Nightmare!
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Tuesday, July 3rd, 2007
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10:38 am - Baaaaaaby blanket
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Just getting around to putting this one up. Double-strand of Homespun (beige and "Tudor") on *I think* size 11 needles? Maybe 13s. It's a great pattern off the Lion Brand site that's essentially knit 3, yo, knit to last 3, yo, knit to end until it's half as big as you want, then you reverse it. I ran out of tudor about 6 inches away from the end, so that part is purple and conveniently not shown in the picture, heh.
On the needles: a sleeveless turtleneck for my mom. About 3/4 done; just have to finish up the neck shaping, make the neck and seam the sides.
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Wednesday, October 26th, 2005
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9:11 am - Two mysterious knitting adventures
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Trixie Belden & the mysterious upside-down cat bed/Trixie Belden and the mysteriously small slippers
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I have ONE SEAM left on my nephew's sweater. Hopefully it'll be up soon.
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Tuesday, October 4th, 2005
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11:27 am - A Twofer Tuesday
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Wednesday, September 28th, 2005
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10:58 am - Update! (FINALLY!)
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This was originally supposed to be for my brother's daughter, who is 6. It turned out CRAZY small though, like baby-sized. (I tried to use an adult pattern and just use smaller yarn & needles. Didn't quite work!) I will probably give it to my friend Shirley who has a 2-year-old. If it doesn't fit HER then they can use it on their dolls or something.
I ended up using a variation of the same pattern to knit a capelet for my sister-in-law's daughter, who is I think 12 or 13. It turned out great and I'll post a pic as soon as I get the button & loop put on.
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Wednesday, May 11th, 2005
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10:35 am - interesting
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Wednesday, March 30th, 2005
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11:00 am - Sock it to me! (groan!)
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I don't know if it's just my monitor or what, but I can never see the stitches in dark knitted stuff, so I turned the brightness way up in my photo editor so you can see it better. I was too lazy to learn the weavey seam for the toe, so I just did 3-needle bindoff and it looks craptacular, but who sees the toe anyway?
This pattern was for a full length sock where you fold the top over, but after like 3 hours of tiny ribbing I declared "these are going to be anklets!" I dropped a stitch in the heel gusset on the other side, but it doesn't really show *that* much - you get to see the side I didn't screw up.
This is knit with triple stranded super fine alpaca yarn. It should be super warm, but I'm not sure how it will wear. (I'm hearing reports that it doesn't have much memory, so it might get all stretched out - oh well.)
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Thursday, March 24th, 2005
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8:24 am - To the editors of FCEK
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I don't like the look of crochet items as a rule, but your offerings in the latest issue are especially grotesque. To add insult to injury there were so many of them in what is supposed to be a knitting magazine. If you want to put out a crochet magazine then please do so, but until that time use your magazine titled EASY KNITTING to showcase KNITTING projects. I have one issue left in my subscription before I decide to renew (or not); hopefully I will not see the same amount of hideousness in that issue.
Yes, I actually sent that.
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Friday, March 4th, 2005
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5:32 pm - Seeeee myyyyyy vest, see my vest...
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Made of real gorilla chest!
Ok, not really. Sure looks like it though!
This was a free pattern found at: ( Read more... )
Note how it looks nothing like the picture in any way, shape or form!
I confess I left out the last two neck decreases because I wanted it to look less like a tank top, but I wasn't expecting it to look like an ACTUAL tank! (More like a bulletproof vest, lol.) I might actually make this pattern again. If I do, I'll bind off less stitches for the neck, and cast off a couple more stitches in the armpits so the shoulders aren't so dang broad! Also I'll do the bottom part in the round because I think one side is longer and it just looks crappy. Oh, and I'll add a couple ribs around the waist. And maybe make it a little longer.
Do you recognize the yarn? Farewell Enormous Poncho of Doom! (I acutally still have the half with the cable, which makes a nice scarf/wrap.) Very warm vest, though. Maybe it won't look so wonky over like a knit shirt or something? Hmm.
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Monday, February 21st, 2005
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6:35 pm - quickies
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A knitted Kitty for my friend's daughter, and a pillow for the friend herself.
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The pillow was fast and easy. 80 stitches (double strand of worsted) on size 13 circulars. Knit until pillow is as tall as it is wide and do 3-needle bindoff. Stuff a pillow form in it and whipstitch the bottom closed! I think the tassles are a bit extreme, but I was afraid of them looking "wimpy." LOL!
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Wednesday, January 26th, 2005
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1:57 pm - Ugh! Finished!
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This sweater just about chewed me up and spit me out!
First I had the trauma of finding out the ribs didn't line up (which is luckily not THAT noticible - like you can see it if you're looking for it, but if you didn't know, you probably couldn't tell.) But I come to find out that I'd been doing mattress stitch wrong for my last dozen or so projects so I had to re-learn it after about 20 failed seaming attempts. Bleah. It's kind of stretched-out from the blocking, but hopefully after she (mom) washes it the ribs will scrunch back up some and the stitches will fluff out. (I tried it on and it's a bit loose, and the collar sticks up over the shoulders because the sleeves were so flattened out blocking it to size!)
I'm pleased overall. I'd like for it to have gone better because it's a gift, but if nothing else I learned a lot - as usual!
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Sunday, January 23rd, 2005
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7:46 am - Argh!
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I'm getting my ass kicked by knitting lately. I bound off the vest I was making for my mom and it looked horrible. I just shoved it aside and didn't seam it or try to block it or anything. Blech. I decided to knit her the Bob sweater from Knitty instead, ( http://www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring03/PATTbob.html )because I was going to knit it as practice for fancy yarn anyway. I decided it would look better in all ribs, instead of some at the bottom and some at the top so I knit them all the way up. Turns out -- they don't line up! I continued the ribbing in pattern but now it's going to be off center at the top, and the ribs won't look right around the neck. GRR! I'm thinking there's a way to adjust the pattern, so I can still do it for the next project I plan to make, but I'm so annoyed at myself for not checking that first. (I actually did juggle the numbers in my head, but I must've done it wrong, or not accounted for the bound-off stitches in the armpits.) Did I mention "Grr"? The whole thing is taking forever and my hands are killing me. I cannot wait for it to be finished!
Haven't done any more on Bruce's slippers - still waiting for Thick & Quick to go on sale. I was going to break down and buy it at Hancock Fabrics, but they don't carry WHITE! What is up with that? I would think white would be one of the more frequently used colors!
Also on the back burner is a knit-a-long project for the crafty bunch on Disgruntled Housewife boards. The category is "neckwear" so I'm planning to use the leftover yarn from my Coronet project to make a button-up gaiter loosely based on a pattern in Knit.1 magazine. Won't be for a while though, because of the dreaded gift sweater.
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Thursday, January 6th, 2005
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8:20 am
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Man, I'm waiting on some knitting needles I ordered to show up, then I have like 50 projects I need to get going on. I've been winding balls of yarn for days and have a monsterous pile next to my LaZBoy, lol. I actually need to finish a vest I started for my mom a couple months ago. It's sort of a pattern I made up in my head by combining two patterns into what she described she wanted, but will probably turn out nothing like it, and too small to boot -- drat! I'm like 3/4 of the way done, and just need to finish the top front but it's been so long since I picked it up, I'm worried about if I can remember what part of the cable I'm on, etc. Annoying.
I'm also right in the middle of a UPS Brown skirt that is taking forever, because of the giant size it needs to be to cover my butt without being grotesquely stretched, and a pair of bootie-type slippers for Bruce I'm trying to make look like Chuck Taylor high tops. I need to buy another skein of Wool Ease Thick & Quick in white, but I refuse to pay full price so I have to wait for it to go on sale somewhere.
When the needles get here I need to start a ribbed sweater. I'm making it out of some wool-ease I got on eBay as a sort of test pattern. If it turns out nice, and I can make it out of a certain amount of yarn, then I will be able to make the same pattern out of the super-nice yarn I got for Xmas. I also have some alpaca on a cone I got off eBay, which I want to use to make a sweater from one of my mom's vintage pattern books. ALSO I got some bright red wool, so I want to make a rolled brim felted hat. And possibly some felted pads for the cats to lay on/shred to death with their kneading.
THEN after all that, I need to get the yarn and get started on that sweater/jacket for my dad.
dang, I need to get BIZZAY!
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Tuesday, December 28th, 2004
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9:01 am - FINALLY!
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Sunday, December 26th, 2004
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9:27 am
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No pictures to share today, but some gift/shopping "squee!"
I was stuck trying to decide if I should use my latest Amazon.com credit card kickback to buy needles or books, but then my brother sent me a Borders gift card so I decided to buy both. Jo-Anns is having a "free shipping on any orders over $25" promotion through Amazon, so I put three sets of bamboo circular needles in my shopping cart and they came to $24.97. :rolleyes: I decided to spend another $4 to save $8 in shipping so I threw in a set of DPNs. Total cost after free shipping and reward check: $5.77 - YAY!
Another yay - DH bought me (at my demand, more or less, haha) 10 skeins of Debbie Bliss Alpaca Silk yarn. Ohhhhh, sooooooft. It's not enough to make a long-sleeved sweater, but hopefully it will be enough to make a tank or shell. I want to make something out of it that's going to lay right on my skin, not a scarf or hat or something.
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Wednesday, December 15th, 2004
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7:44 am - Finished!!!
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With 10 days to spare!
Bruce's "Rugby Hoodie"
(cut for giantness)
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Details:
Lion Brand Wool-Ease Thick & Quick - hunter, white & navy(lost count of how many skeins.) Size 13 needles, pattern from one of their purchaseable pattern booklets. (Carter's sweater was from the same one.)
Originally there was a front pocket and no stripes, but I switched it around some. My only problem was I ended up dropping a stitch or something when I was picking up for the hood/joining the shoulders, but I ended up being able to stitch it closed fairly unnoticably when I was finished.
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Saturday, December 11th, 2004
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11:42 am - Extra value is what you get...
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"Coronet" from Knitty.com
This is for my friend Shirley. I was going to make a matching scarf but I got about 1/3 of the way into it and decided "ahhh...she'll get a book instead." I really love this yarn and the design, but I don't really think they work that well together. Cables show up better in a solid color. Oh well!
(Not sure how well the colors reproduce, but the yarn is a blend of an eggplanty purple, sage green and khaki.)
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Saturday, December 4th, 2004
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6:43 pm - SULLY MONSTER HAT!!!
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Friday, November 26th, 2004
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4:02 pm - Turn down the brightness on your monitor
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Misc gifts:
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The A's hat is not quite the right color, so it looks more like "Go John Deere!" But I guess if you wear it to an A's game, they'll get the idea.
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