Category Archives: Knitting

Off to a fine start!

Posted on April 10, 2008 by deb| Leave a comment

I got a few things photographed that needed to be mailed off, I finished a package of charity square-lets I’d been working on, and I finished/photographed a few new dishcloth sets for the store. I also started the spring cleaning in earnest today, since it finally feels like spring here. I heard it’s supposed to last a whole day, ROFL. Have I mentioned lately that I love New England?

Next up: a pair of freeform projects that have been hanging over my head. And I’ll probably work on the magic scarf while we watch the Idol results, since that’s official goof-off time.

After those three things are finished, we’ll see what’s next. I have a couple of bigger things hanging around, too…

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I have got a serious case of the starts.

Posted on April 9, 2008 by deb| 1 Comment

That sounds as awful as it is, doesn’t it? LOL. Seriously, I’m looking around my workspace and figuring that it’s time to damned well finish a thing or seven. I’m holding out a project or three that I desperately want to start right now as rewards.

Y’all, it’s so bad I’m not even sure what’s there. At least the girls pulled the needles out of my Squidge for me today, and since I was maybe a quarter done at the most I just frogged the thing. One down! ROFL!

I’m going to start at one corner of my desk and go until I hit the end. Wish me luck…I could get lost in here.

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FO: Elvish Leaves Dishcloth

Posted on March 27, 2008 by deb| 2 Comments

Love. Love love love. Love!

Here is the pattern.

I made a few boo-boos but nothing big enough to rip back for.

Easy enough for my first attempt at lace, tough enough to keep my attention…and can I tell you how neat it was to see the pattern forming as I knit? I think I’m hooked. *swoon*

Now if someone could just find those extra 4 hours a day I need to have *time* for a lace obsession, I’ll be eternally grateful. Kthxbai.

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Very quick update.

Posted on March 21, 2008 by deb| Leave a comment

I’m knitting this.

It’s making me happy.

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Long Week.

Posted on February 23, 2008 by deb| 2 Comments

I would absolutely *love* to be updating here more often, but we’ve got so much going on in my household right now it’s just insanely difficult. By the end of the day I’m too exhausted to write anything that makes any sense.

One more run-though on that design, I think, and it’ll be ready for testing. I have one out for testing right now that the feedback is starting to come in on, too. So in the pattern category, we’re making pretty big progress.

In the stuff-I’m-making-up-as-I-go-along category, I’m really happy with one project I just started and really unhappy with the scarf I’ve already put a considerable amount of work into. I think that’s going to get ripped back and redone. And I’m not sure how I’ll need to handle the yarn at that point, so I’m a bit exhausted at the thought of it. I see possibly re-skeining and washing and making a ball out of it in my future. Which wouldn’t be such a pain if it wasn’t sock yarn and I wasn’t without appropriate tools. Still, though, we’ll see.

I think I’ve found my problem with knitting, which is that the projects I’ve chosen aren’t anywhere near hard enough. No challenge = boring = knitting? Why do people *do* this? So I’m going to have to find something that will make me crazy to do. Right now I’m leaning toward jumping right into lace. Of course, this will have to wait until I have a few dollars I can spend on appropriate supplies, which may be a while. But I’m not giving up on knitting until I’ve tried something insanely hard and still feel meh about it. I really think I won’t, at that point.

Also? I’m one of the three people on the planet who *likes* to purl. Heh.

And that’s about it for the moment. More details when I can provide them.

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FAL update. Again. Because I’ve got nothing today.

Posted on January 23, 2008 by deb| Leave a comment

So my Finishalongapalooza list looked like this:

1 magic scarf…I’m still working on the first pattern repeat. Of course, I just started last night. Heh.

1 Irish Hiking Scarf, which despite having been frogged still makes the list because I’ve started it twice already and I WILL make the dratted thing, since it’s lovely and fun.

1 log cabin ‘ghan (starter panel done)

1 small rectangle granny ‘ghan (maybe 1/4 done, at the outside)

1 giant granny gift ‘ghan (probably 1/6 of the way into it)

1 Monster

3 small freeform projects

1 freeform project not yet started for submission

1 yellow pouch

2 little design projects

1 “fishy fishy”

and the design project that’s been costing me what hair hasn’t been leaping off my head of its own accord (oh, the joys of childbearing, lol).

And after most of January, it now looks like this:

1 magic scarf…~~I’m still working on the first pattern repeat. Of course, I just started last night.~~ Heh.

~~1 Irish Hiking Scarf, which despite having been frogged still makes the list because I’ve started it twice already and I WILL make the dratted thing, since it’s lovely and fun.~~ Abandoned to the whims of my pocketbook. It’s yarn diet time, hardcore. No going out to pick up yarn and needles for this one.

~~1 log cabin ‘ghan (starter panel done)~~ Abandoned to the baby, who is using it as a teether.

1 small rectangle granny ‘ghan (maybe 1/4 done, at the outside)

1 giant granny gift ‘ghan (probably 1/6 of the way into it)

1 Monster

3 small freeform projects

1 freeform project not yet started for submission

~~1 yellow pouch~~

2 little design projects

1 “fishy fishy”

and the design project that’s been costing me what hair hasn’t been leaping off my head of its own accord (oh, the joys of childbearing, lol).

Not too bad. Not too bad at all.

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Finishalongapalooza Update.

Posted on January 18, 2008 by deb| 1 Comment

From this list, the following modifications:

The Magic Scarf is well underway now, though it’s still likely to take me the next 6 months at the rate I knit/make time to knit.

I’m crossing the IHS off the list because I have no idea when I’ll be able to buy needles or yarn better suited to it and I don’t like the way it’s staring at me.

2 of the 3 freeform projects have caused me to throw my hands up in frustration and start a 4th, because they are just not telling me what they want to be, and that one is willing to for right now.

One design has me beating my head against the wall, now that I’m out of hair.

And the log cabin? Abandoned to the baby, who snatched it out of my lap to chew on.

Big plan today is to finish the Organization of the Stash. And clean the bathroom. Stash first. If I’m lucky, it will take aaaallll day and I can worry about the bathroom tomorrow. Which attitude explains why my house perpetually looks like hell.

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Re: the Finishalongapalooza

Posted on January 7, 2008 by deb| 1 Comment

It has been brought to my attention that the Misses Lime & Violet have embarked upon a most excellent adventure known as the Finishalongapalooza. So I went looking for WIPs, and this is what I came up with:

1 magic scarf…I’m still working on the first pattern repeat. Of course, I just started last night. Heh.

1 Irish Hiking Scarf, which despite having been frogged still makes the list because I’ve started it twice already and I WILL make the dratted thing, since it’s lovely and fun.

1 log cabin ‘ghan (starter panel done)

1 small rectangle granny ‘ghan (maybe 1/4 done, at the outside)

1 giant granny gift ‘ghan (probably 1/6 of the way into it)

1 Monster

3 small freeform projects

1 freeform project not yet started for submission

1 yellow pouch

2 little design projects

1 “fishy fishy”

and the design project that’s been costing me what hair hasn’t been leaping off my head of its own accord (oh, the joys of childbearing, lol).

Most of these are either really small or really fast. I totally didn’t count my perpetual dishcloth making, either.

The thing I most want to finish? The Monster.

Nothing to frog right now, I don’t think. I went on a tear before Christmas, and I think I got ‘em all.

I think I had something else to say about this idea but today’s been such a freaking Monday that if I did, I’ve got no clue what it was. Yee-haw!

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I am SO exciting!

Posted on December 31, 2007 by deb| 3 Comments

Totally spending New Year’s Eve playing with yarn and poking around Ravelry. I’ve been so slow to really use and appreciate that site. Have to take some pics and add projects soon.

I’m also working on a design that’s a rethinking of another design of mine, and it’s looking like it’ll wind up combining knit and crochet. Oooooh, heresy. But really? I think they play well together in this context, make things more interesting. We’ll see how it goes. I’ve done about 12 crocheted versions in the last week and I just wasn’t loving any of them. Heresy! LOL.

Of course, I got the Harmony Stitch Guides for crochet for Christmas, so the needles might be getting mighty lonesome pretty soon here.

Er, back to it. Carry on. Something like that!

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