{"id":2128,"date":"2012-08-23T13:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-08-23T18:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/?p=2128"},"modified":"2012-08-22T23:31:05","modified_gmt":"2012-08-23T04:31:05","slug":"pattern-retrospective-part-1-dinosaurs-roamed-earth","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/crafting-a-life.com\/mamaoknits\/pattern-retrospective-part-1-dinosaurs-roamed-earth\/","title":{"rendered":"Pattern Retrospective, part 1, or, When Dinosaurs Roamed The Earth"},"content":{"rendered":"

Way back a long time ago, oh, way before you were born, missey, I knitted up a little envelope for Thing 2’s teeth as they shuffled off the mortal coil known as his mouth and alit on a pillow. Those little buggers went missing easily under his pillow and the little knitted envelope seemed to help keep the teeth easy to find—plus he liked it. I thought it was such a durn useful thing that I would just hop on Excel and make up a little chart and send it out to the world. I figured one or two people would get it and it would make them smile and knit little pouches for their loved ones and lo’, the world would become a good and happy place.<\/p>\n

Well, about 300 people have downloaded it so far and the world still seems like the same old world to me, so I thought maybe I should shine the pattern up a bit and re-release it to all y’all and see if we can’t get some goodness and joy to spread around a bit more.<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>You can download it now<\/a> and it won’t cost you a cent. Knit it at a tight gauge so the teeth don’t squeeze through the stitches.<\/p>\n

Please post pictures though that link back to the pattern on Ravelry. I’d love to see how you modify it and make it all YOU. That’s the fun part.<\/p>\n

* * *<\/p>\n

Another time back in… oh… 2007\/2008 maybe? I was part of a few Harry Potter Sock Swaps. I still have the socks I received (the Revenclaw stripy socks are particular favorites of mine). I was having a heckuvatime figuring out what to knit because the name I drew was for someone in Hufflepuff.
\nHufflepuff.
\nYellow and Black?!
\n[groan]
\nAnd a badger?!
\nAnd then I thought, WAIT! I know! I can knit the Huffl<\/strong> and epuff<\/strong> across the back of the socks and again across the front of the socks so when your feet are together they say HUFFLEPUFF… and maybe I can work a little badger in on the back of the heel.
\nThus were the Hufflepuff socks forged.<\/p>\n

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I blogged about them quite a bit back then and afterward turned the posts into something like a running blog document. Later I cleaned it up a bit more and added my new toe-up-sock-with-a-gusset-and-flap instructions from my sock heel class (see left sidebar). Now you can download<\/a> a reasonably polished piece of work also free for the taking. It’s not as detailed as the newer sock patterns I have, but it’s followable and I had a fun time knitting them. I hope you do too.<\/p>\n

Tomorrow, two more patterns! And of course, there’s the sale going on in my Rav Store<\/a>. Read about why I’m having it here<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Shoppe<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Ravelry Store<\/a> \u00e2\u20ac\u00a2 Etsy<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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