My two friends each have babies. One is 9 months, the other is a newborn. I’m making each of them a Shining Star. I finished the first one yesterday and I’m most of the way through the second one today. I also made myself a set of 6 3-inch wooden DPNs. [...]
Entries from February 24th, 2006
The poor neglected Opal sock.
February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Works in Progress
The poor little thing. It will be finished soon. And its twin will be not far behind!
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Clapotis/2
February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Finished Objects
This is the truest pic I can get that captures the colours. All the other ones I took look washed out. I think it’s because of the sheen on it; it just reflects rather pale!
Close up of the stitches:
The whole thing draped on the sofa:
It’s one less repeat wide, and two less repeats long. [...]
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Pinwheel blanket
February 23rd, 2006 · No Comments · Finished Objects
It is lovely, no? The edge is crocheted for a bit of a picot look. I think I bound off a little tightly, so it wouldn’t lie completely flat. This is a case for using a bigger needle to do the bind off!
The startled recipient! You can also see [...]
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Anouk + goodies
February 14th, 2006 · No Comments · Finished Objects, Works in Progress
I used Bernat cottontots 100% cotton yarn in Strawberry, Limeberry, and Grapeberry. The flowers were done in some leftover LionBrand Microspun. I was hesitant to use a different yarn, but it gives the FO some texture. At first I was a little disappointed to use a non-shiny yarn (I had considered adjusting gague to Knitpicks’ [...]
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Done with Anouk!
February 11th, 2006 · No Comments · Update, Works in Progress
Anouk is done, save sewing on the buttons. I even made matching socks…and if it weren’t for the snow, I’d have the proper sized DPNs and circs to make the matching hat. Ah well…all in good time. Pics tomorrow.
I have now started (casually) on a beach cover up. I’m just playing [...]
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WIP – Anouk
February 7th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Works in Progress
So far, so good! Just did the gather at the top of the skirt on the second piece. Just have to finish the bodice. Then attaching, pockets, tabs, etc…
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That was fast!
February 5th, 2006 · No Comments · Works in Progress
I received my yarn to make Anouk first thing yesterday morning. Well, here it is, mid afternoon today and I’ve finished the entire back piece! I decided to make the first piece the back piece, because…ya know… I think it came pretty good though! And the yarn is lovely and soft, [...]
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First ever eBay yarn
February 3rd, 2006 · No Comments · Musings
I won 5 skeins of this on eBay. Katrina, although completely synthetic, is the softest, bounciest, prettiest yarn I have ever seen. My mother made my sister a shrug from this for Christmas and it was just impossible to stop stroking it. So, this will either be a tank top or a [...]
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For once, a major update!
February 2nd, 2006 · No Comments · Musings, Update
I have finally spent time altering the appearance of the blog! I’m a little happier with it now, but I’m sure I could do better. Give it time… Copy-pasting the source code into Word so that it is searchable made things LOADS easier too.
So, things are moving along nicely! Anouk has been bumped from planned [...]
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