Of Cats and Bags

I have more FOs and more patterns. In my Christmas knitting this year there were plans for a number of market bags, to be filled with sundry items (like soaps, wine, other knitted items…). Emboldened by the success of my scarves I determined to try my hand at bag designing. The resulting four bag [...]

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Too Much To Explain, Let Me Sum Up

I’ve been a busy beaver on the knitting front (and have also not neglected the zombie… wonder of wonders).
I’ve got another four FOs to add to the list (or check off the list depending on how you look at it…)
Specs: Christmas Mittens 09 – The Revenge

Pattern: Herringbone Mittens with Poms
Designer: Elli Stubenrauch
Source: Ravelry download
Yarn: Briggs [...]

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The hits just keep coming

or what you can accomplish during Star Trek marathons…
FO: Mom’s Christmas Mittens

Pattern: not really a particular pattern, used a combination of sources on mittens in general and thrummed mittens
Yarn: Noro Silk Garden
Yardage: about 1.5 skeins (well, 2 with nearly half a skein total weight left over…)
Thrums: Briggs & Little Country Roving in natural/white (I used [...]

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Productivity

All things considered this has been a productive few days. I’m making progress on the zombie, from which I am taking a break to blog. And there have been FOs and progress on WIPs. And I got my library card, New Brunswick has a fully integrated province wide library system… what a fantastic [...]

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Pre-Season FOs

It is currently pre-season… for football (yeah!!), for Christmas knitting, for school here (which starts next Tuesday), and fall, which appears to have asserted itself this week; and FOs are piling up, which is never a bad thing. This weekend I finished S.’s hood, a BSJ, and the first of 8 thrummed mittens for Christmas.
Specs: [...]

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Under the Weather

or rather under the influence of the weather, I have begun the annual ritual of preparing for Christmas, more specifically preparing my knitting plans for Christmas. Naturally, this involves trips to yarn stores and online yarn orders.
Notice I said “trips” to the yarn-store… Earlier this week I made my first foray out for Christmas [...]

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Pat’s Victory

Just in time for Christmas, Dad’s sweater is finito!
Specs: Dad’s Pat’s Sweater
Pattern: Hero Pullover
Designer: Ann Budd
Size: Large
Yarn: Galway and Galway Heather
Colours: Red (44), White (02), Grey (1080), Blue (638)
Yardage: 1.95 balls of Red, about half a ball of White, about 3 balls of Blue, and about 2 balls of Grey

Modeled by my little sister A. [...]

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Work In Progress

Pretty much everything I doing right now is a work in progress.
There’s the scarf (for which I am not only working the chart upside down, I -being new to the whole double knitting thing- apparently did not finish the edges right and the only thing holding the edges together is the fact of the yarn [...]

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Flyby FO

Specs: Blue Beret
Pattern: Meret
Designer: Wooly Wormhead
Size: L, slightly more slouchy
Yarn: Paton’s Decor
Colour: Country Blue
Yardage: 3/4 of a ball
Needles: 3.75mm circ

Cast On: Dec. 04.08
Bound Off: Dec. 07.08
Notes: Was blocked using a dinner plate. I would probably use all wool and go up a needle size if I do the pattern again. The pattern itself was great, [...]

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Dear Santa,

In the spirit of the L&V Daily Chum celebrity wish lists, I’m going to make up my own fiber-blogger wishlist (hey, who is more of a celebrity in my blog than me!?)
* A Sheep 2 Shoe kit in Thraven, I dream of getting my hands on one of these.
* A Laguna bag by Namaste, Charcoal [...]

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