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Well last week I promised you the book that made me go SQEEEEEE!!! When this one hit my hot little hands I knew we would be friends! Remember this?:
Well enter it’s match! Twinkle’s Weekend Knits: 20 Fast Designs for . . . → Read More: Bookish Thursday: Twinkles Weekend Knits You can only ignore your laundry so long.. Then the piles start to attack! The kids start running around the house naked. and you can’t find something decent to wear. Sigh. Just when will the invent self cleaning laundry? Enter.. Elizabeth Zimmerman. Yes.. Elizabeth Zimmerman. See she must have foreseen that I would need something to do whilst endlessly folding . . . → Read More: Bookish? Thursday: How Elizabeth Zimmerman helped me get my laundry done I should be able to finish these up tonight! Which is good, I need to show them off on Tuesday.. and then sell them on Sunday!
I restarted on Brian’s Sweater! It is slow going I need to get through one repeat of the cables and then I will have a solid picture of . . . → Read More: Nearly Finished Friday!
My mission for the next bit is to do some reading and learning. I also plan to get some ‘official’ knitting credentials on my resume starting with the CYCA certified knitting instructors program. With that in mind the following books have been procured and added to my library.. I had planned to buy The Knitter’s Book . . . → Read More: Does This Book Make my Brain Look Fat? Isn’t that exciting!! WOOO HOOO!! Specs: Heart Hat Pattern : Elizabeth Zimmermann, Book: Knitting Workshop Yarn: Cascade 220, used a bit of each skein. Needles: Addi US #6, 16″ Alterations.. none really. I pretty much just followed the pattern blindly! Changes I would make: None really except to use a longer needle, the 16 inch was a little tight. What I learned: How to knit an . . . → Read More: A Finished object that I can show you!!!! I got up early last Saturday to watch the second episode of Knit and Crochet Today and was treated to 4 minutes of dead air then 8 minutes of Curious George followed by the remainder of the episode of Knit and Crochet Today! I had missed pretty much all of what looked like a really cool . . . → Read More: Ahh the wonders of television! Well I havn’t told you all about my vacation knitting! I brought a few projects with me to keep me busy on these drives from place to place.. but sadly last night I ran out of yarn on the one project! I am one and a half rows away from the 576 stitch section of the Pi . . . → Read More: Vacation Knitting Steeking is when you knit the body of a sweater in a tube, and then reinforce and cut open where the armholes (and quite often the neck). I just finished a test knit that involved steeking and really it is not as scary as it sounds! In fact I think the steeking was the easy part! So . . . → Read More: How-To’s Day: How to Steek Fearlessly! -Nellie Olson flew over my house.* -Caleb tried to burn the house down make his own popcorn. -The internet went out again. -I had to open up Jaxom’s computer and do minor surgery to get it running. -The dog ran off on me in the rain.. -The dog was really only hiding somewhere dry while she listened to me run around . . . → Read More: Random events in the last 72 hours.. (click to make it bigger..I call this Lace on the . . . → Read More: Wordless? Wednesday… |
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