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Archive for April, 2005

First Felted FO!

Posted in Uncategorized on April 27, 2005 | 2 Comments »

Yay! so I finished my first felted tote bag today!
I posted pics earlier of the work in progress, but here’s the finished bag before felting (I crocheted orange edging on the corners, around the bottom, and reinforced the bottom with orange, green and blue)The stitch pattern is RT, k1, with RT, RT, on the corners. [...]

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Oops!

Posted in Uncategorized on April 20, 2005 | 2 Comments »

I hadnt really decided what I wanted to do with the handles for this bag, and finally decided that the shape called for cast-off/cast-on handles like the bag that inspired this one, the Marsupial Tote. So I started doing the handles then realized that the body of he bag was just a bit longer than [...]

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Punk_knitter

Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2005 | 1 Comment »

So I joined the Punk_Knitters community on Livejournal and have already been posting and getting tons of comments It’s such a great active community! I also got the amswer to my yarn question: Why can’t I find info on “Simpatico”? Because is the us/uk etc it’s called Filatura di Crosa Print 127. YAY!

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more about the bag

Posted in Uncategorized on April 18, 2005 | Leave a Comment »

WIP pics: here’s the Filatura di Crosa Simpatico bag that I will be felting.

knitted in RT *k1, RT* RT on bamboo #15US circular needles

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First Purse!

Posted in Uncategorized on April 14, 2005 | 1 Comment »

So I decided that since the Filatura di Crosa Simpatico is a little too brassy to use for a scarf I’m making it into a tote bag (or maybe a purse, it hasnt decided what it wants to be). I’m roughly following the instructions for the “Felted Marsupial Tote” in “Stich ‘N Bitch”. It will [...]

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The Stash

Posted in Uncategorized on April 10, 2005 | 2 Comments »

Tried to post this Friday, but Blogger was being Buggy.
I came to Japan with only two suitcases, and very little room for yarn. All I brought was the skein of LionBrand Homespun that I was making into a scarf for my sister, intending to knit on the plane. The scarf did not get finished until [...]

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And so it begins…

Posted in Uncategorized on April 7, 2005 | 4 Comments »

I don’t know who will actually read this, but I was encouraged by the fact that whenever I was google-ing knitting questions, or looking for pictures, or wondering what was going on in the knit-world, I found my self being led to knit-blogs, and subsequently drowning in a sea of information and oddly-addictive accounts of [...]

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