More on the Badgerlicious Sock

Posted by on Apr 27, 2007 in Knitting |

So you can’t see Mister Badger (Señor Hufflepuff) yet, but you can see progress. And beyond the progress (I’m going to do these on two circs, so I’m starting both on dpns, then I’ll switch) I’ve finished the designs. I think I’m going to have to increase the guage on these though, as the stitches per inch are more than I thought. But aside from that, here are my plans.k4, p2 rib across the instep.When I turn...

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Psych!

Posted by on Apr 23, 2007 in Family, Knitting | 1 comment

So…here I am at 5:53am. I’m exhausted, Andrew’s leaving today, I loathe this…yet…the birds are singing, the trees are lovely, the pool is still as glass…if only it weren’t for the dreams.HAMLETO God, I could be bounded in a nut shell and count myself a king of infinite space, were it not that I have bad dreams.GUILDENSTERNWhich dreams indeed are ambition, for the very substance of the ambitious is...

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Socks and Shirts

Posted by on Apr 18, 2007 in Knitting | 1 comment

I promised pics. I now have them.; )These are my Six Sox KAL Sprintime in Paris Socks.One of my Horcrux SocksAnd my Craftlit T-Shirt= WWMDfK? (What Would Madame Defarge Knit?)

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Quick and Ugly Tensioned Kate

Posted by on Jan 3, 2006 in Blog Fun, Spinning, tutorial | 4 comments

So, one of the ladies on one of my knitting/spinning blogs was asking for a quick and dirty tensioned Lazy Kate. I uploaded pics to the Yahoo group but they’re hard to find so I’m putting them here. I call mine Ugly Kate, but she works just fine. I used fishing line on a darning needle, dowels that would fit all my bobbins, paper “straws” on my drop spindles that would fit on the same dowels, a phillips screwdriver to...

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First Lace

Posted by on Oct 29, 2005 in Blog Fun, Knitting, Podcast, Shawls, Spinning |

So this is the first lace I’ve ever knitted. It’s for a shrug–which I’ll upload a pic of later–and I’m starting to spin my own yarn, which will also be uploaded soon. My sister has a much more interesting Blog (AccordianGirl) which I’ll link to soon. Keep your eye here and at CraftLit: A Podcast for Crafters Who Love Books.

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