Last night I got to watch my friend Captain her Roller Derby team to victory. Hooray Sirens! If you are in L.A. area I highly recommend attending a Derby Doll event – the Finals are on December 9th. Today, since I am in town I will be headed over to …
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Shame Well, Socktober came and went, and I barely did a thing about it. Not too cool for a knit-blogger… I wanted to finish my Cupcake socks not only for Socktober, but also to be eligible for a prize in the Ravelry Sock Knitter’s Anonymous group. But alas. Not finished. …
I consider myself pretty tech-loving. I would rather email than talk on the phone, and I run to the internet to look up everything.. I can write a code to randomly pick numbers for me, yet I have to do this to choose a contest winner: Everyone that commented was …
A quickie post to finally purge all of the things I have been meaning to tell you… Secret Knitting Project I have a secret knitting project that I just finished. Technically the cat is out of the bag with this one, but I haven’t told you about it here so …
As I mentioned yesterday, I did not attend Rhinebeck, and am getting jealous of looking at everyone’s loot. Rhinebeck booty is all over blogland. I can take this time to show myself that I don’t need any new yarn, and get excited over stuff I already have. For example…. All …
I have a couple of new products up my sleeve, and I decided that ‘Talk like a Pirate’ Day is the perfect time to release one of them… As you might have noticed, I love little disembodied moustaches. I also love halloween. So I decided to dress up my little …
writing my thesis is taking away most of the words that I have to use in a day, so you will have to suffer throught a bulleted (and photographed) list of projects that I am working on right now. Toe-up self striping socks I added a little twisted stitch accent …
I know I said the Week of weaving is over…. but I forgot one little project!! This one is basically a re-interpretation of my needlebook idea. The construction is the same, except that I used 4 inch weave-it squares (made from leftover handspun) to create a button book. The two …
A continuation of The week of weaving series…* It is fairly easy to construct square and rectangle shapes out of the tiny squares and rectangles that you produce on a hand held loom. But what about other shapes? With a little creativity and a little fiberfill stuffing, you can make …