mini-madness

Still working on the mini-sweater.. I’m finding that cotton makes this a fairly heavy sweater for it’s size, since I had to triple-strand it to get the right guage. I should have said “fuck the gauge”and done it all by measurements, but it being my first sweater I wasn’t really comfortable with freehanding all the [...]

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First sweater in the making!

So I took the plunge and started the Glampyre Boobholder-minisweater! It took me a while to figure out how to gauge this thing, since I’m being difficult and using the teeny-tiny yarn. So I tried it with casting on the 50sts, holding three strands together and using size 10 (us)6.0mm needles, but the gauge was [...]

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Holy Crap!

Whoo hoo! Amanda from frenchtoastcake and Craftster fame has just informed me that she got me a copy of the summer 05 Interweave Knits magazine! Wow I love the internet.. just hope no one else already got me one… It will probably be a while until I get it, but I was at a loss [...]

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ribbit ribbit

So I finished my craftster-inspired strawberry bag yesterday, and promptly frogged the whole thing I’d done intarsia leaves for the top of the strawberry, and that combined with doing more stitches cuz I wanted it bigger made it bunch kinda weird at the top, then because it was too big the bottom part [...]

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re-felted

I made this about a month ago but wasnt really happy with it, I could still see through it in some places and it was kindof floppy. So (since my washer doesn’t do hot water) I popped it back in the bathtub and rubbed and rubbed it until it shrank up a lot more and [...]

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Stash Enhancement!

I just got back from Korea, which was quite the adventure.. (detailed in my Livejournal, linked in my profile).
While I was there I “accidentally”stumbled into a tiny yarn store where there was about 6 women packed, knitting away furiously. One of them spoke some english and I ended up walking out with 8 balls of [...]

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pictures of the mystery yarn, and linen

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Fiber Crimes! (and Noro mystery yarn)

So there’s a sale going on at my LSY and I found some really interesting stuff for super cheap so I thought I’d give it a try. I found some 100% Linen …braid..I guess you’d call it (it’s like a hollow tube-rope, worsted weight), for about $2/ball (82 meters). I also found some very different [...]

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cherry blossoms?

I came up with these little posies tonight…They do look like simplified cherry blossoms, without the litttle points on the petals, but I think I want something a bit more lacey. we’ll see what else I can figure out I guess, don’t know how I would attach them either…Here’s one with the yellow/green center, and [...]

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Crochet!

So I have this weird “100% wood pulp lenpur” yarn that I got onsale the other day, and I’ve decided I want to make a Sakura spring scarf out of it. Bt I want the scarf to be made of flowers, which means I need to learn to crochet. I used to know how, but [...]

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