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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Shoes and Stash

Yesterday I had to go shopping, you know for the necessities that arise with the purchase of any new dress.

Gold (and white) shoes for the wedding, which are both cute and comfortable
And since I was in town I decided to check out the yarn store, I mean I have already been living here for [...]

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Projects, Projects Everywhere

and, of course, the camera doesn’t work.
I have started the second Oyster Bay Shawl, in Tickled Pink – which is a really really lovely pink. (Hey Lizzie, did you hear that, I like this pink!) I’m almost half way through the repeats of the main chart, so there is hope for finishing it in [...]

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Worse Than Yarn Stores

I found something worse than yarn stores, a place were wool fumes are stronger, a place credit cards mention only in a fearful hush, while looking over their shoulders. This place is Dye-Version’s showroom. I think being so close to the source of amazing hand-dyed and hand-painted yarns should come with a warning.  [...]

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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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On the fourth day of December

I had just cast off a pair of socks, and was casting on a hat.
Specs: L’s Blue Jay Socks
Pattern: Thelonious
Designer: Cookie A
Size: Large

Yarn: Knit Pick’s Kettle Dyed Essentials
Yardage: nearly 2 balls
Needles: 2mm dpns

Cast On: Nov. 24. 08
Bound Off: Dec. 3. 08
Notes: My biggest problem was remembering that they were mirror images (as in I had [...]

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More Shopping

But first FO pics!
Specs: BSJ of Many Colours
Pattern: Baby Suprise Jacket
Designer: EZ
Size: um, small…
Yarn: Araucania Ranco Multy
Colourway: 314
Yardage: little more than half of the ball
Needles: 3.75mm circs
Cast On: Nov. 19.08
Bound Off: Nov. 21.08

Notes: As has been said before, just follow the instructions (and don’t try to out think EZ) and it works out…perfectly! [...]

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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 the [...]

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Startitis

Well, not exactly.
I did cast on the Cypress Shawl. And I did start my new sock yarn scrap blanket (more below), but it is the increasing queue of projects with yarn balled, needles allocated and patterns and matierals bundled that is beginning to get out of hand.
First off, the blanket, which I’ll be calling Cumulative [...]

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