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FO and Travel Plans

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on July 21, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on July 8, 2009 | Leave a Comment »

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

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , on July 6, 2009 | 3 Comments »

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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Work In Progress

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on December 16, 2008 | 3 Comments »

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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Instant Gratification

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , , on December 7, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Baby hats- ’nuff said.
Specs: Sophie’s Beret
Pattern: Child’s Play Beret
Designer: Laura Brown
Yarn: Knit Picks bare worsted(?)
Needles: 3.75mm circ (I think…)
Cast On: Dec. 5.08
Bound Off: Dec. 5.08

Dyed: Dec. 6.08
Colour: mix of Sapphire Blue, Jet Black, and Sky Blue over a previous Turquoise dye job.
Notes: I added the pom pom today. Somehow my numbers didn’t quite work out [...]

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It was the wool fumes…

Posted in Uncategorized, tagged , , , , , on November 24, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I swear! Well… actually, all things considered I did pretty darn well.
Yes, I bought yarn. I was down on King West (like really far west… as in almost to Roncevalles west) and what do you do when you have hours to kill after a meeting at that end of town before you can catch the [...]

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