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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Football Season Means FOs

I’m back (again) from an eventful trip to the greater Boston area (does that work for you guys? Sufficiently not Boston, but still helpful to those who don’t have a clue where Marlborough or Hudson are?) While there (and traveling there and back again) I finished reading an amazing book, Shock Troops by [...]

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FO and Travel Plans

I have actually finished another project, yeah!

Specs: Wrought Iron
Pattern: Ironwrought Scarf
Designer: Anna Dalvi
Source: Ravelry store

Yarn: Dye-version Silver (Merino, Silk, Nylon, and Sterling Silver), 100gr/421yds in the colourway Midnight
Yardage: about 95% of the skein
Needles: 4.5mm circs
Cast-On: July 6.09 at knit night
Bound Off: (in this case, grafted the ends together) July 17.09
Blocked: July 19-21.09 (the theatre [...]

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True Blue

Apparently I have a thing for blue… not that this is much of a surprise (looking at my project page or my wardrobe…).
Today, my FO is blue, my WIP is blue, and the UFO I’m avoiding, also blue. But since I am avoiding the last, I’ll do my review of Sock Innovation instead.
First up [...]

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Overwrought

Seems to be the appropriate title for me over the last few months, but instead I’ll apply it to this FO, which is pretty fan-fricking-tastic in my humble opinion, I think I’ll have to knit a few more of these.  As a side note this was my Canada Day project, Canadian pattern source (okay, Swedish [...]

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Still Lives

But it has been an… interesting couple of months.
There was the wedding (during which I made a new best friend – and didn’t get to sleep for two weeks before 2:30AM).
While down Boston way (for the wedding), I finished my thesis, and according to my instructions from my supervisor, I sent it in. After [...]

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