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Progress: Charmer Corriedale

Posted in in progress, spin, stash on April 23, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Started: 22nd April 2008
Finished: WIP
Yardage: maybe 40 yds, so far?
Fiber: Hello Yarn Corriedale Combed Top (Charmer, 4 oz.), acquired  last fall from my Secret Pal, Siercia.
Spindle: Butterfly Girl Designs Blueberry Quartz 1.8 oz Top Whorl, doubled up on the whorls to try to get a heavier weight yarn… not so much!
I am filled with an [...]

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FO: Sheldon de Schildpad

Posted in knit, knitty, life, project spectrum, recently finished, tagged on April 22, 2008 | 2 Comments »

De Schildpad, he likes to perch…
Pattern: Sheldon by Ruth Homrighaus (On Wisconsin!), Knitty (Winter 2006).
Needles: US 3, 3.25mm.
Yarn: Garnstudio Muskat
Another one for Project Spectrum (“Earth”).
Did you know that the “Sweater Curse” has it’s own Wikipedia entry? In fact, if you search “Sweater Curse” on Google, it’s the first thing that comes up! It really is [...]

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FO: Noroshins, with a hint of spring

Posted in knit, supplies on April 15, 2008 | 6 Comments »

Pattern: Widdershins (cabled) by Brooke Chenoweth Creel, Knitty (Summer 2006).
Needles: US 0, 2.0mm.
Yarn: Noro Kureyon Sock (S164)
Another one for Project Spectrum (“Earth”).
Lots of edits to make this pattern work for the skinny skinny Noro. Cast on 20 stitches, increased up to 72, making for four cables across the top of the foot and eight up [...]

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The Triplets

Posted in knit, stash, supplies on April 14, 2008 | 2 Comments »

Last week was a pretty wonderful one, stash-wise.
For the past year I’ve been saying that when I came to Europe I would order some yarn from the Wollmeise. I’d been trying to do that, albeit half-heartedly: I always forget that on Fridays there are shop updates and when there are updates they always sell [...]

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Noro Kureyon sock, early thoughts

Posted in in progress, knit, knitty, life, supplies, tagged , , , , , on April 8, 2008 | 3 Comments »

First, a couple of words on “Self-Destructive Knitting…”
Do you ever knit when you know you shouldn’t? When there are other things to be done, and putting them off is just going to make your life more difficult, but you knit anyway. It’s not that you’re in denial, per se. It’s more about acceptance: the future [...]

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FO: Bridging-the-Gap Charades

Posted in knit, recently finished on April 1, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Pattern: Charade (pdf) by Sandra of I May Be Knitting a Ranchhouse.
Needles: US 1, 2.5mm.
Yarn: Knitterly Things Vesper Sock yarn (Afterglo)
Tick another one off for Project Spectrum, this time bridging the gap between “Fire” (pink) and “Earth” (brown). I love em, but man, it is hard to photograph these colors. These fraternal twins were [...]

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