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Entries from March 31st, 2006

That was fast…

March 31st, 2006 · No Comments · Update, Works in Progress

I finished the one wristwarmer last night. It didn’t even take two full evenings! It’s very pretty! I have yet to weave in ends (oh, what a loathesome task!!!! though there’s not that many for this project) so it wasn’t worth taking a photo of just yet. I really do like [...]

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Mrs Beetons

March 29th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Works in Progress

They’ve been started. The beaded cast-on was fun at first, but got tedious as the yarn started curling on itself from all the pulling. Something happened with my join I think, or something got twisted because the first row sort of disappears into the main colour. I can’t figure out why, and [...]

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Comments…

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Update

I did not realise that I had this blog set to only accept comments from registered users. I have disabled this now, so anyone can comment, but the secret word thing has got to stay to avoid comment spam. So, please comment if you were not able to before!

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The Shimmer

March 28th, 2006 · No Comments · Finished Objects

go….first, a close up of the front. The ribbing looks pretty good but I had to pick up the stitches THREE times…(long story).
Overview of the back. I love how it turned out. The colours are nicely distributed. Except for the one row of wonky diamonds, I love it.
A look at the texture.
Pulled back view of [...]

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Brief Shimmer-related mental freak out

March 22nd, 2006 · No Comments · Works in Progress

So, I was doing great! I finished an entire repeat of the lozenge stitch, it was looking beautiful…only six more rows till I could add the sleeves! I thought I would read ahead and see how I was going to get those sleeves attached.
Suddenly, I thought I made a big mistake. I thought, “hmm…maybe I [...]

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Sleeves done!

March 21st, 2006 · No Comments · Works in Progress

Both sleeves are now done! It’s too late to even cast on the back piece, but I’m excited that that is what I can do tomorrow!Here is a pic of the lower parts of both sleeves. They sort of match, but not really:

I think they do look sort of cool. It’s not [...]

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Progress…

March 18th, 2006 · No Comments · Works in Progress

I have finished the first sleeve on the Shimmer shrug. No pics for the time being as I have no internet connection at home. Give this a week or so and normal service will resume. I’m pretty happy with how it came out, but I stupidly was increasing every 10th row and [...]

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Sock 1 done…

March 9th, 2006 · 1 Comment · Works in Progress

I finished the first sock, I’ve cast on for the second one and have done about 10 rows of ribbing. I have a lot of things I want to work on, so I’ll probably do this one a little at a time. I just realised how many projects I’ve done in the round [...]

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The beach cover

March 1st, 2006 · No Comments · Works in Progress

Here is is so far:I’m doing it in the round on size 17 (12.75mm) needles…(yes, the snow melted and I was able to get them!) I’ve been going very slowly on it because I have had other things occupying me, but last night it made a huge jump in length and now I’m really [...]

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Shining Stars

March 1st, 2006 · No Comments · Finished Objects

Ok, here is the first Shining Star. I think it took me over an hour and at least 10 tries to start this. My needles were big, heavy, shiny metal which just would NOT cooperate! Finally I caved and cast on the same way I did for the pinwheel blanket. I altered the bottom of [...]

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