tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-345495882012-01-07T07:44:15.692-08:00so much yarn, so many ideas, so little knittingprocrastaknitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11387522365083410196noreply@blogger.comBlogger1811100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34549588.post-79260056434159214672012-01-06T16:50:00.000-08:002012-01-06T16:53:57.502-08:00

After 31 years of pretending I am not listening to her, I took one of my older sisters ideas and decided to improve upon it, me-style. She had suggested a knitting project where you knit one row each day for a year, ideally ending up with a lovely scarf by December 31st. Considering that a.) the world is supposed to end before then,b.)I can never knit just one row at a time, and c.) I have the

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Sureya Maile officially made ME part of a WE on December 14th, at 231 in the afternoon. She thought about showing up on the 13th, but 35 hours after the contractions began, she was ready to get the show on the road. She didnt waste any time once I began pushing with the contractions, because she arrived in 30 minutes, delivered by the emergency oncall doctor since my own doctor (whom had

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I know, I know, you can't rush perfection...she will get here when she's ready...only a small percentage of babies are born on their due date-BUT SERIOUSLY. I AM READY. Ready, and anxious to meet her. I finally quit working, just called my boss this morning to leave him a message that I was officially beginning my maternity leave as of today (actually Friday, since I was too tired to go to work

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Today, December 5th, was one of my two due dates. Apparently it was not the due date that Sureya agreed with. She has been shifting lower and lower, my hips feel like they've moved out about 12 inches, and even walking miles on the treadmill does nothing to speed things up. In any case, all of this waiting has not been in vain. For starters, underneath the sinks in my house there is such

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Dear USPS: I love coming home from Thanksgiving to find that the darling mailman has left a cardboard box on the edge of the porch in the pouring rain, instead of sticking it under the porch bench, or in the carport, or anywhere underneath the 2 foot eaves overhang that is in front of my house. Thanks! None the less, under that soggy, finger-blackening outer layer of cardboard, I found an

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Here is yet another example of what happens when I get bored with a pattern- it becomes something different ENTIRELY! I started out making the adorable Baby Onesie, got tired of stockinette stitch just past the armpits, decided to add a couple of stitches and turn it into a pullover version of the Helena Baby Cardigan. I think it was a successful morph, just need to add some buttons or snaps to

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I finally finished the Maile sweater, it looks absolutely adorable and now I just need to find the perfect buttons. When I make this sweater again (which I know I will) I will figure out how to do it from the top down because the joining the sleeves at the underarms made me INSANE. And pregnant women can't afford to be any more off kilter than they already are. Seriously. This tiny little

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I don't know why it is that I love these utterly impractical things so much, but I finally finished the ruffled baby bloomers last night. While sitting in my soon-to-be-new-mothers breastfeeding class. Which of course caused all sorts of interuptions as I sewed up the side seams and people started to realize what they were looking at...I used the Baby Abby Ruffled Bloomers pattern from the Lion

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This is Ryanne,the hat I designed for a friend by the same name. I looked for cable knit hat patterns, tried out a few of them, and then realized that I needed to make one up that had enough stockinette stitch to show off the yarn, but a little something to break up the monotony of stockinette. Materials: 1 skein Lion Brand Amazing (53% Wool, 47% Acrylic; 147 yards/50grams) #201 Ruby1 16"

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okay, so after blocking and then looking at the infinity scarf for awhile, I decided I didn't like it enough to give it away. So, I unknit it, and then created a new one...the infinity zigzag! As soon as I find the paper I wrote the pattern on, I can share it with you. It was very simple, a little less than two balls of the Red Heart Boutique Midnight yarn, and the chevron pattern is easy to

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A sweet sweater, some matching sweats, diaper cover/soaker, and the leggings. Two months to go!

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I know, it has been awhile since I showed you any pictures of things I am making. After my last post, I needed some time to answer the dozens of holy-snap-what-the-eff-I-didnt-know comments that my far flung friends and family members were asking...so maybe I shouldn't have waited until 7 months to let everyone know! Not that I was trying to, but after the fourth month and nobody (except those

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I finished the BSJ-minus the buttons-this past weekend! The body knitting was the easy part, and I left off the button placket and decided to use an i-cord edge all the way around the body. This proved to be slightly more difficult than I had anticipated, or maybe I was more tense when I started the edging, but it started to pucker and then I had to take it out and re-knit the front right edge. I

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I finally picked up some Eucalan to soak my Holden Shawlette yesterday (HAD to get rid of that lingering campfire smell!) and got it all laid out and pinned to the floor in the spare room. I had ordered blocking wires, but then they emailed me that were out of stock, and the local yarn store Canvas Works does not carry blocking wires- I had to settle for regular old stainless straight pins. I

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Isn't he the cutest? This is my newest nephew Owen, modeling his "Heartbreakingly Cute Pilot Hat" from Mason Dixon Knitting Outside the Lines. I also finished the Holden Shawlette this past weekend, and am now anxiously awaiting the arrival of my blocking wires so that I can get this gorgeous (yet currently very smallish) shawlette stretched to the right proportions. . .

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I made it through all of the stockinette portion, and began the lace pattern sometime on Saturday. The knitting is fairly easygoing, I only really need to pay attention at the beginning and ending lace sections that magically grow every sixth row (or so)! This picture was taken at about round 20 of the written lace pattern, and this will be done by next weekend, no doubt about that. (note to

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Yes, I've done it, gone and joined a virtual group of knitters working on the same project. I saw the project first on Stefanie Japel's Craftsy blog, checked out some finished versions on Ravelry, and then grabbed the first skein of Malabrigo Sock that caught my eyes during the Yorkshire Yarns sale last weekend. I wound the yarn myself at the shop, and as soon as I finished the cardigan (

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ok, I took my own challenge too seriously. I wanted to finish this cardigan so badly that I stayed up until 1130 on Sunday night just to be able to say I finished it this weekend. Now, it's a quarter to midnight and I am posting one pick (just one, wearing the cardigan over my pajamas) As you can see, I went with the arrow lace pattern around the front bottom edges, picot bind-off on the turned

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Okay, so this is not necessarily the most flattering photo of any of us, but that is me, my cousin Jenn, and my sister Jenni knitting (and crocheting) together at Mom's house last weekend. I am working on my self-designed cardigan, Jenn was knitting a headband (she already finished it) and Jenni was crocheting a hat (she already finished 4 of them). My project is definitely more labor intensive

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this is not the only thing I have knit in the last month, I promise. It has been busy, busy, busy, and I am slowly knitting my way through a sweater I recently began. This Thursday my sister and I will be going to a Tacoma Rainiers Stitch N' Pitch event, which will actually be my second baseball game this week...I went to the Mariners/Atlanta game last night, and juggled my knitting along with

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This year, I will gain three new nephews/nieces. In the world of me, that means lots and lots of knitting requests for the previously knit gifts that fit the previous nieces and nephews so well....and that's what I've been working on. There have been other changes in my little life, but this morning as I was catching up on some of my favorite other bloggers(Wendy Bernard, Jared Flood, Stefanie

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I think my exhaustion may also be partially due to returning from an extended vacation and overbooking myself working two jobs, but really I am still here, knitting. I think I may join another Monday night knitting group, provided they don't crap out on me like the last bunch of wishy-washy-weather-afflicted knitters and crocheters that called themselves a fiber group. Whoa, tone down the

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I made it back, obviously alive and with a yarn stash twice the size of the bags I had taken down with me. I purchased another backpack in Ecuador after our trip to Otavalo, because I had purchased another two giant skeins of yarn and had left behind ten more in Peru that still had to be accomodated in my return luggage. I realized that no matter how much I look at other colors, I always choose

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Back to Peru, land of yarn and spinning and alpacas...it's my own little piece of heaven! I will also visit some friends in Chile and Ecuador, just to see what those countries have to offer fiber lovers. An old friend from my first trip (4 years ago) is currently part of a exposition with his amazing weavings and knittings...check him out. I have been waiting over a year to sneak back down south

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Here is yet another example of my inability to walk away from the classic Feather and Fan stitch. I loved the two yarns together, and wanted a simple pattern that showed the beautiful drape of the Alpaca Silk and the glittery softness of the Kid Mohair, and because I am a creature of habit, the feathers and fans just fell off my needles in less than two days from yarn purchase to wet blocking.

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but earlier this evening I was looking for the perfect pattern for the ONE skein of Malabrigo that is mocking me from its perch on the top of my yarn tower, so I went to the Malabrigo Yarn webpage. I searched patterns, and who should I see but me! My pattern is featured on their webpage, courtesy of Jimmy Beans Wool! If you could see me now, I am grinning like a fool. Silly knitter, shame on me

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Knitting is my favorite second thing to do. I love that I can knit while sitting through meetings, or while stuck in traffic on I-5. I can knit while waiting for the dentist to call me back, or while watching a movie. It is never the only thing I do, but it is always there and ready to keep my hands occupied while my brain, eyes, or mouth are also otherwise occupied.Lately, I feel like I

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so, the socks are finally done. So is my 30 year relationship with my baby tooth that the dentist decided was long overdue for removal. Thanks to extensive time in the waiting room yesterday, and then the residual effect of anesthesia making me useless in all other aspects of active life, I managed to finish knitting the socks that I started before Christmas. I used Jarbo Garn Raggi in color

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Here's the Lion Brand Amazing "Arcadia" version of the convertible cowl. I finished last night and wore it to work today-already one coworker wants to learn the pattern!And here's my attempt at an artistic shot of my new yarn swift, with the yarn for mom's birthday present. These pictures were taken at night without a flash, so the blur is because I had to hold the camera as still as possible...

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Yesterday I gave my aunt Joyce her first knitting lesson! My Nanny Ruby, her mother, was a consistent knitter and when she passed away I was the one who inherited all the long aluminum needles that she used to keep aunt Joyce awake, with her peristent clickety-click-clickety-click. It was an honor to find another person in the family who wants to learn, and with all of her jet-setting-job-time

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I made myself a little something. It's crocheted, and utterly easy even for a beginning crocheter like myself-I actually have already started on the next one! This is my new accessory of choice, since winter in the Northwest can't decide if it wants to get started, or be over with and I am tired of picking my scarf fringes out of my zipper. Here's the pattern. Mine was made from Bernat Mosaic

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some of the family.... ...modeling their Christmas hats!!! (okay, so it's only three of Jenni's kids and Dad, but at least it's a start)

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Whew, I am glad that is over! Not that I don't absolutely love the holidays, but now I can return to knitting for knittings sake and not for gifting sake! The holidays flew by in a blur of glitter and tissue paper and way too many cookies, and now it's time to get back down to business. My goal for the next year is to be more successful with my Etsy page, and start selling instead of knitting

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One of my co-workers is awaiting the arrival of her first granddaughter, and had asked me to create a baby hat using Oregon Ducks colors. Of course, I was just so inspired by the hat that I had to make booties to match! They turned out adorable, and of course using Fancy Image Yarn mixed with a little bit of sparkly silver Vanna yarn. The ducks uniform is green and yellow with silver wings on

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I will be at the Hawks Holiday Happening this Saturday, along with my sister Jenni and whatever she decides to bring to sell! If you are in the Olympia area, come by and see me!!!

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no, there is no energy drinks or sleepless nights involved. I was oncall for work in Port Townsend, so I WISELY used my time to sew like a mad woman and make some more fun stuff to sell at the Hawks Holiday Happening. Marissa and I did some undercover idea shopping in downtown PT on Saturday, looking for cool things that we could attempt to recreate while sneaking snacks from all the Holiday

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Holy Moley it's been awhile! I can only blame the long workweeks and the numerous weekend trips to frigid chilly Jefferson County football fields to support my nephews team, PT Braves(B Squad, #1)Those little darlings won the championship this past weekend, and tomorrow will play the Battle of the Bridge against the reigning Kitsap County team. I have been attempting to knit while at the games,

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I finished the crochet hat, it's luv-erly! And once I had realized that there was no way I had enough of the green and gray and black yarns to knit a third hat, I cast on using some old Mountain Colors sock weight (still in green) to make the hat for Levi. I also used the leftover Fancy Image Yarn in blue to make a random hat-still need to decide who it's for! Take a peek: I have also been

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I just recently had my SLR camera cleaned and replaced the batteries. It's been awhile for me, so I played with some things around my house, snapping shots of silliness like a yarn bouquet and one of my hats stretched over a lamp...

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this past weekend my sister Jenni came down to Olympia for some much needed coffee and yarn time. as we were kicking back on our respective couches, surrounded by our baskets and bags of yarn, I noticed the hat she was making. hmm.that looks like something I could do. minus the whole 'crochet' part, right? as you should know by now, my favorite knit lace pattern is feather and fan. practically

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By the way, I finished all the berets the other day. Three total, all in the same Grace Lace pattern using different colors of Fancy Image Yarn. The color in the picture is a bit off, thanks to my camera phone, but you can see the actual colors below in the previous post. I started on the boys hats, using the Turn a Square pattern from Brooklyn Tweed/Jared Flood. The first of the hats is done

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its been a busy few days. First of all, I finished the first of the older nieces' Grace Lace berets. Then I accidentally told her about it, because I sent the picture to her mothers cellphone (during church) and she informed me that she had the cellphone in the nursery with her younger sisters. She promised to pretend to be surprised on Christmas. Then I got ridiculously sick with fever and

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here they are, the fourth and final cat hat {striped to make use of every last yard of available yarn in those two skeins} and that lovely GRANDE sideways grande hat. The hat really really REALLY lives up to its name, or I was completely off on my gauge-it is enormous! but still wearable if you pull it back slouch style and let the top drop. I cast on this morning for one of the Grace

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okay, okay, so I didn't even bother to sew in the ends before I popped this little number on Rhapsody's head. One down, three to go because this particular hat belongs to the younger set of nieces (Rhapsody, Isabella, Hannah, Olivia), and I still have the older set of nieces (Mariah, Marissa, Rachell) and the set of nephews (Jeremiah, Josiah, Levi) to knit hats for. Also, as I am looking at this

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The Sakura Hat was finished over the Labor Day weekend camping trip, and the Avalon hat was finished this past weekend. Jenni and I went on a little fieldtrip on Sunday, over to Churchmouse in downtown Bainbridge Island to take advantage of their 10th anniversary sale deals-I was looking for some of the heavyweight Socks that Rock yarn for a new project (top secret), but they didn't have any in

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I don't have time to upload the pictures right now, but if you are on ravelry you can check out the Sakura hat that I just finished over the holiday weekend. By the light of the fire, and sometimes my headlamp, I decided that I love the colors in this yarn even if the striping slightly obscures the flower pattern at the top. I couldn't finish it completely while camped out in the woods with the

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I must say I love this nifty little jacket! Two skeins of Bernat Mosaic yarn, a few meetings, and ta-da! Even the not-always-so-darling kids at work complimented the shrug in their "it doesn't even look like those old lady sweaters" sort of way....

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I had to attend a staff meeting yesterday, and then an all day training again today. In the world of me, that translates into the coveted minutes necessary to complete my knitting projects, have my knit-ego petted, and inspire others to want to knit. This is what I have so far on the Retro Redux shrug:It would probably be done, except I left my size 8 needles for completing the second cuff and

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Finally, finished! I just seamed the shoulders of the Baby Surpise Jacket, and now I need to find something other than a darning needle to sew on the little buttons I bought. I am still working on a little softy blanket for the baby as well, and the shower will be on Sunday (three days left to finish this all!) I am also desperately searching for another skein of the Bernat Roving yarn in

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its been awhile (again) and I don't even have a super spectacularly awesome project to share with you........other than I knit my own crown, to prove that I am and will forever be the queen of procrastaknitting! I actually made that as a birthday joke gift for a coworker and snapped a picture of myself wearing it before I passed it along- but she did wear it all day!more to come, sooner rather

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in the midst of all my sporadic cleaning and organizing over the past week, I started noticing how many printouts of knitting patterns I was coming across. Not just a few, but A LOT. I already have two 2-inch binders and one 1-inch binder full of organized patterns, but as I collected the ones that were folded up inside project bags, or under the couch, or in my magazine basket, I realized I may

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Just last night, while sipping Mojitos at the Brotherhood in downtown Olympia during this fantastically sweaty weather we are having, I finished my first BSJ! I am not quite as ecstatic as some previous BSJ knitters have been, but it is pretty awesome that all that garter stitch and increase/decrease madness turns into this adorable little sweater. I still have to sew the shoulder seams and

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Here's the shyly smiling Hannah wearing her new sweater last night: she really does have a fantastic personality but the camera makes her freeze! The BSJ is coming along nicely, just getting ready to do the bind off for the collar, and I am sort of working on knitting a tie for my stepdad for his birthday (using the yarn leftover from socks I knit him three years ago!) I finished the Ducks Hat

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Happy Birthday Hannah Banana! Todays the day, tomorrows the party, we'll see what she thinks of her new Fancy Image shrug! Here's some old pics of previous Hannah projects-that is one well-knit-attired little girl!Also, you can see a picture of baby Hannah wearing the cape and booties at the same time, right here!

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Like I said, sewing is so much more instantly gratifying!! Here is the messenger bag I made for a friend of mine using Kyoto fabric from JoAnns and a Koi print batik from Ruby Street Quiltworks shop. The bag is very simple, a notebook sized rectangle (more or less) with some gathered pockets on the interior. And of course, the Olivia Jr. blanket, for her to wrap up her babydoll, also named

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Here's Rhapsody, posing in her newest tanktop. This was probably one of the easiest projects I have ever knit without a pattern, because the feather and fan stitch is now burned into memory and the strap lace was a simple yo, k2tog that alternated every other row. Maybe I will post the pattern, if I can get it off Rhapsody long enough to count stitches...And then there is the slippers, which

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attending many work related trainings that provide for ample time to knit! On June 7th, I knit a pair of the house slippers from Knit2Together. On June 8, I worked one half of the Baby Surprise Jacket from Elizabeth Zimmerman. Yesterday, I finished one Cropped Baby Shrug during a morning training as a gift for my niece Hannah, and then went directly to Fancy Image Yarn in Shelton as soon as I

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Yeah, so this one is pretty darn cute. take a look at the flickr badge!

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The cropped cardigan is done.{stop} pictures forthcoming. {stop} It is possible to knit size XL with four skeins of Comfort. {stop}

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On Friday, a current work case with a client necessitated a trip to Lakewood, WA. I knew there was a yarn store on Pacific, one that I hadn't been to before and that according to their website, carried Berrocco Comfort yarn (I was still wavering about how much I would need to finish the fronts of my cardigan, in relation to how much I still had left on the skein). I stopped into Lambs Ear Farms

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Oh look, my hats do fit the babies they were made for! And, guess what, even though it only looks partially done, I am actually doing the bottom ribbing on the berrocco cardigan. I can knit, just slowly....

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I forgot to post for an entire month! well, well, well, I have a new job and have to work Monday through Friday like the majority of Americans, and now I am so far behind on all my projects it is ridiculous. I did finish off an adapted version of Leigh Radford's Baby Bolero (minus sleeves, because I poorly judged the amount of yarn I had!) and also used some of my new grass green and black

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here they are, in all their glory, the four projects I finished this week. The blue and green with flaps counts as a COMPLETED unfinished object-one more pair of size 7 needles available for future projects. The blue and purple baby hat is for little Savannah, whom is sadly allergic to wool and could not have the pink and white baby beret, that was gladly gifted over to little Adrianna whom does

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I need to rave-I just washed my Odessa hat for what may have been the hundreth time, and it still looks fantastic. I haven't had it that long, so you may ask why it gets washed so often. I wear it all the time, because we all secretly love receiving compliments on things we've made, and this particular hat takes the cake. It's the colors. It was the perfect pattern to show off the color changes

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Okay, heres the scenario: I used my income tax return to buy a new sewing machine. For the last three years, my sister and I have been passing our moms' Brother sewing machine between Olympia, Bremerton, and Port Townsend to match our individual project needs. You know, two weeks here, a month there, what have you. Occasionally the sister and I would get together to sew, but mostly that

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Hello first day of 2010. Will this be the year I finish Christmas knitting before December? Will this be the year I don't wrap up balls of yarn and tell my friends that they will have their [hat, socks, turtle} within two weeks of their birthday? Will this be the year, will, this, be, the, year? My list looks a little something like thisJanuary: Finish all projects. I am prohibited from

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I stole some moments from my work schedule to post this-I am not done with my Christmas knitting. Christmas is in less than four hours, and I have two unfinished mittens on my hands, half a hat, and the worlds shortest scarf. Maybe next year? Maybe fake sick from family festivities tomorrow, and finish projects? I did whip out an impressive couple of hats already, but this hat is schooling me

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on Friday, December 4th my sister and I set up a table full of our knit and crochet projects to sell during their annual holiday bazaar at the Festival of Chimes and Lights . Granted, on a Friday morning there are not many shoppers clamoring to get buy knit mittens, but it was nice to meet so many other crafters and see what they had created....I saw a few things I could probably make myself!

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Yeah, working on back into a working schedule leaves me little time for much else. While in Peru I cleaned out a central market stall of their Indiecita baby alpaca DK yarn in deep eggplant-y purple, at an amazing price (9 nuevo soles, approximately 3 US dollars) Finished knitting a baby kimono for Fumi's babygirl to be, the rest will be saved for something for me...Also picked up more

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wow. totally forgot. I am leaving for Peru in one week. My grandpa and I will go to Machu Picchu, Huanchaco, ChanChan, and every fiber farm we find down there that hasn't been cleaned out by one of the big names (Cascade, ahem)seriously, one more week, then 17 days of fibery bliss...

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I just got my little baby dress back from Teresa of Diva Yarn, the one that I sent to the Jefferson County Fair and that was later moved onto the Puyallup Fair. Apparently, my dress was good enough for a blue ribbon at Jefferson, and I got back a scorecard of 84% from Puyallup. WHat? Sad. well, now that I have tasted sweet blue ribbon, I will knit earnestly (hardly) until next year, and then

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Thank goodness for good friends-today I happened to have plans to come home to Port Townsend. On the way, I decided to call my bestest best friend Corinne-whom promptly asked where I was between my house and hers-almost to the Hood Canal Bridge, I say, Why?-Stop at the farm on Beaver Valley Road, somewhere near the Egg and I-Whats going on at the farm? I ask-The WSU Jefferson County Farm Tour is

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Okay, the scarf is done, I didn't need it right away but I had to make it so that I could say that it was done. You understand. Now for that heel and foot of one last sock, for that cuff on the second sleeve, for the sewing together on the cardigan-all the small things that get pushed aside. Not that Joey will die without a pair of my handknit socks, but his birthday was last month. Not that

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I've been doing lots of knitting, but not lots of blogging. You know how it goes. I recently whipped out a coffee cup cozy and a bird, as gifts for co-workers. The overdress(ed) pattern is finally available (see below). The baby dress I knit won first place at the Jefferson County Fair here in Washington, and is now going to be displayed at Puyallup Fair, to a much larger audience. Definately

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Two of the most recently finished, a crab and a dress. The dress was made from the leftover cotton I had used to make the fern tee, but because no self-respecting two year old girl would wear taupe, I dyed the entire thing with one box each of black and purple RIT dye, ending with a very deep eggplant. The ribbon is a leftover fuschia velvet that I had used to edge a purse long ago, and there

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Realize that this dress was knit for me, but because I love it so much I needed to share it-you can use this pattern as a guide for yourself, and enjoy creating something uniquely you.overdress(ed)size 18/20 (with instructions for modifying) Yarn: Patons Lacette 4 skeins, with about half a skein left over. This yarn is discontinued, but can currently still be found at JoAnns craft stores,

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In case someone actually was following my infrequent blogging posts, I wanted to let the world know that my pattern for (over)dressed is being edited to publish-the sizing will be limited because I just tried to confuse you by making you think there was an editor involved, and not just me trying to make sense of the scrawl in my coffee ringed knitting knotebook. I figure that if you bring down

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Yesterday, my sister invited me to come to her work and share some of my knits. She is the activities coordinator for a retirement community, so I was a bit hesitant-why would these ladies, most likely accomplished knitters in their lifetime, care what I have on {and off} my needles? The worries were unnecessary-they were ECSTATIC to see a young-ish knitter using creativity to invent projects

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Global BallHere's a quickie project for stashed yarn, the Earth is meant to be shared on any day, I just happened to make this one up on EARTH DAY!Yarns: Stashed is best to bust! I used two light DK weight yarns doubled, and Antarctica and Greenland were embroidered using Patons Brilliant silver yarn. The remaining continents and countries were embroidered using Mountain Colors Bearfoot yarn, and

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After writing that post yesterday, I went to the Borders Cafe and saw not one solitary soul knitting in plain view. Maybe the shy ones were hiding in corners, but last weeks' table was empty and there was not a stitch in sight. After all that waxing poetic, and the group up and abandons me. Thats okay, however, because I decided to go to Value Village for miscellaneous fabrics, and found a

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Last Monday I finally made it to one of the many local knit nites that abound in Olympia, and chanced to meet some lovely ladies in the most eclectic assortment of characters. They opened their yarn-tangled arms and welcomed me right in, where I immediately began coveting the yarn of the lady seated across from me, a fantastic Estonian yarn with long color runs that I can't remember the name of

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apologies for the lack of new knits, I took some time off from everything to focus on my family. That sounds very Dr. James Dobson, but seriously. My grandmother recently passed away from pneumonia, and everything else just kind of stood still. I realized while at her funeral that I didn't know that much about her past, but she was an amazing person. AMAZING.

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For Christmas, my dearest Carrie sent a gift card to me, for Canvas Works here in Oly. As soon as I walked in the store, I knew that whatever I was making would be for me, and that I would need it to be significant enough that I used it A LOT,but easy enough that I would finish within a month. Enter: Cascade Eco Wool, shade 8020, dark russet-y brown {2 giant skeins}, and a little pattern from

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Done! The Christmas knits fit, my needles are stashed, my next project will be for me! Merry Christmas to everyone, Happy Holidays Debbie in the Mohair hoodie, Gabe in the leftover Mohair hat, Corinne in the Malabrigo hat

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Recyclable Shopping Bag3 skeins Lily Peaches and Cream cotton yarn16" circulars in the following US sizes: 6,8,10.51 stitch markerdarning needle for sewing in endsBeginning with smallest sized needles (working back and forth to start) and one strand of MC, cast on 41 sts.Rnd 1: Knit 1, Purl 1 across Rnd 2: Knit across repeat these two rows 20 more times, for a total of 42 rows. Next row: work in

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Thanks for contacting me-This was my first published pattern, and everyone that test knit my project has been knitting with me for ages and understands what I mean as opposed to what I say/write! I am flattered that you chose this particular pattern. The bag is should look like a large rectangle, a large triangular shape, and the strap. Fold the rectangle on the turning ridges, so you have

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Those are the Bella tights, but the color is so far off you wouldn't believe me if I told you it was the same Cascade Heritage sock yarn that I posted a few months back-hows that for a cellphone camera?And the yarn leftover from the Cloud armwarmers became the mini purse, made from Leigh Radfords' One Skein design, with some handle modifications because I was running out of time.

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The countdowns on-24 days to knit, block, and seam my way into completion! The Bella tights are down, moms present is done, Debbie's is still on the needles and almost done, and then all the rest are impatiently waiting in the wings. too soon, too soon the holidays come...

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today, after teaching my morning class and actually completing my morning workout without stopping to talk on the phone, I decided to rearrange the living room. Mind you, my living room is not big but my furniture is. I pushed everything to the center, pushed it away, rotated it 30 degrees, pushed it to the center, and so and and so forth for two hours. In that time, however, I found 14 stitch

procrastaknitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11387522365083410196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34549588.post-8638220348676116882008-10-31T21:04:00.000-07:002008-10-31T22:05:43.290-07:00

I FINALLY put a sleeve on that mohair hoodie, after knitting and unknitting numerous shaping rows, and ended the cuff with Cascade 220 in the same color. Now, the next sleeve will only needed to be completed in the next 45 days, or so.... Yesterday, I had an all day staff training from way-too-early in the morning to evening (I normally work swing shifts), so I occupied my fingers and the eyes

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I don't have a camera. Right, you knew that. BUT, I do frequently pester visitors to my house and beg them to take pictures of my knitting projects, and then load them onto my flickr account. Do you know how time-consuming it is to move pictures from there to here? Despite the fact that my friends are doing the dirty work for me and I don't really have to spend that much time on my photos...I use

procrastaknitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11387522365083410196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34549588.post-4377841169299345782008-09-21T15:53:00.000-07:002008-09-21T15:59:24.741-07:00

The dress was stunning, neck and neck with the brides own get-up for compliments, and a few pre-orders placed by fellow wedding attendees. If only I hadn't shown it to you first, I could have used it for a Knitty pattern submission! In any case, it is done, the Noro hat is done, and I am already well into the second glove of the pair I just started Friday (Christmas knitting has begun,

procrastaknitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11387522365083410196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34549588.post-80413304767036730552008-09-06T22:15:00.000-07:002008-09-06T22:23:16.089-07:00

Kerouac Socks:Pisac Pocketbook:overdress(ed)Picture Update!!! I told you I was knitting!

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still knot knitting the lacy dress, it is a whole 15 inches of holey goodness. I can't follow my own advice and not start new projects, so now I am using some thicker than tree trunk hemp to knit sandals, slow going on slowly bending aluminum needles. also, since someone else was showing interest in the Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtle socks, I had to finish them-not finish, finish them, but work on

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the mask is done as of yesterday, I nearly cast-on for that blue vest thing in the fall Interweave and then checked myself-I MUST FINISH THE DRESS....Carrie's wedding is in 24 days-this is my deadline. I am half heartedly working on another brimmed newsboy, this time out of the noro silk that hangs out on my coffee table-it is great mindless knitting when the feather and fan lace gets to be too

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while I do not have the pictures to prove it, I did whip out a pair of comfy socks this past Thursday/Friday, and I finally started on the Lucha Libre pattern from Son of Stitch n' Bitch to make the snazzy balaclava for one of my coworkers. I am also modifying a feather and fan tanktop pattern from the yarn lady to make a lacy slip-dress-cover-thingy to hopefully wear to Carrie's wedding next

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I don't have any new pictures to add, and I am hanging my head in shame at my inexcusable lack of posting. I received a polite reminder phonecall from a fan the other day, and she not-so-kindly informed me that it had been over a month and a half since I had written anything. FOR SHAME, I am wagging my finger at myself in that childish antagonistic way. I was in Peru {again} last month, and

procrastaknitterhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/11387522365083410196noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-34549588.post-296593560540387282008-06-15T21:33:00.000-07:002008-06-15T21:42:48.302-07:00

yeah, there is no excuse for procrastination like this! holy hell, over a month? what was I thinking? Just so you know, I didn't die in the last 40 days, I was just finishing up that bachelors degree that has been hanging over my head for the last ten years (graduated on Friday the 13th, eek?) and still knitting like a mad fool. I am currently occupied by completing this circular shrug, so far I

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