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 [...]

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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 [...]

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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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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 [...]

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Instant Gratification

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 [...]

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It was the wool fumes…

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 [...]

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