If it seems like I have been busy finishing crafty projects, let me show you what I haven’t been doing….. I present a gallery of barely UNfinished objects on the couch of shame. To begin, at the top left, the drop stitch cardigan from the Fall 2005 Interweave knits. The …
A while ago (weekend before last?) I dyed some sock yarn to practice up for Dye-o-rama. I wanted to practice not getting colors to run together, but still dyeing them in the crockpot. It is amazing to me how much the colors stay put. I put half of the yarn …
Edit:I stickied this post so everyone from the PixiePurls Podcast can find it. This weekend, Abby and i spent some time working on a top-secret knitting project. There is a little something that we can share, though. We used a digital camera to take crappy little movies of us knitting …
I threw together a little pincushion for BoogaJ’s Pincushion challenge. It is made out of felt and stuffed with yarn scraps that I was happy to get rid of. I guess i could put up the pattern too… Anyone interested?
I believe it was because of Tina over at Purls Gone Wild that I first heard of Handpaintedyarn.com . It was love at first visit. I love the kettle-dyed colors (variegated yarn is my favorite), and the prices seemed pretty reasonable. i bought enough merino for a top-down raglan (which, …
You might not want to read this for two reasons. the first is that i am going to talk about how sick i was the last two days. really sick. some horrible gut wrenching flu that sucked the life out of me. Really, it was the kind of flu that …
Originally uploaded by kweaver614. I made some plastic buttons that are for sale in my etsy shop. Perfect for little knitting projects….
I have joined Secret Pal 8! I am going to fill out my questionaire and i am trying to spare those who aren’t interested.
I recently discovered Whip up and decided to enter in this weekend’s competition. the idea is to make something crafty inspired by the theme “no fear.” I recently had an inflamed pinguicula on my eyeball and since then i have been super-aware of my eyeball. I haven’t been wearing my …
My Deep-V is speeding along… i have completed the waist decreases, so i can’t really try it on easily anymore. It looks pretty curvy… i hope it fits! I had some sock yarn dyeing success…. Inspired by the california poppy (i accidentally typed poopy first -hah!) (photo from flickr)I made …