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Swatches

A Night of Edgings

May 31, 2010 Swatches

Did I mention that I don’t have a single project going on right now?  Well, I don’t; and the last post was about swatching for various projects to start on.  So, on the drawing board, you have seen that I want to do something with the Plymouth Happy Feet yarn and the Na Craga sweater [...]

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A Swatch A Day

May 28, 2010 Swatches

I’m now officially PROJECT-LESS. I don’t think we can let that happen, so it is now swatching time.  I had acquired some lovely Happy Feet by Plymouth Yarns during our roadtrip to WEBS and this is the swatch made out of it.  Normally, I do not like variegation, but this one is nice, it’s an [...]

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Color Choices

May 1, 2010 Swatches

QUESTION my dear friends: Whaddya’ll think of the colors?  This is my attempt to emulate the original Ram Horn’s Cardigan by Meg Swansen from Meg Swansen’s Knitting which uses Unspun Icelandic Wool.  This is just plain ol’ Cascade 220 and I was kinda surprised that these were only these were the only  few shades of [...]

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Laborious

February 9, 2010 Blog

Hello from the construction site. A brief update on the Blogger to WordPress conversion – LABORIOUS!!! I’m going through 6 years of posts….. I can’t believe that!  And editing each post and uploading the pictures to them is like going through a photo album.  It brings back a lot of memories about how I started [...]

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Even More Swatching

July 24, 2009 Swatches

Oh how fast do I change my mind. Call me fickle, and I am. Or maybe just a short attention span. I must be kinda restless or something, my therapist calls it minor borderline mania. I guess that implies that I’m borderline bi-polar, which in other words mean I’m CRAZY! Anyways, I digress. So, watch [...]

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More Swatching

July 18, 2009 Stash

So lately, I’ve been having this terrible itch to start a new project, something for myself. And after the failure and mismatch of yarn and pattern, I finally grieved and was able to move on. Now, I bring you Aberlady. Another Starmore, from her book The Celtic Collection. As you can see, this pattern is [...]

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Hot Tamale!

July 6, 2009 Swatches

Hello all from sunny, perfect weather California! Just taking some time to update my peeps on what I’ve been up to. First of all, I got into San Francisco on Saturday, the 4th of July, and my buddy John picked me up from the airport. I am supposed to be working in California the week [...]

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Fat Ass!!

July 2, 2009 Life

Here I am, zipping along a Starmore piece and quite liking the resulting fabric, yarn, and pattern. I liked it so much I even took a picture of it after finishing the ribbing and just a little into the main body of the sweater. Pretty right? But look. FAT ASS!!! There was, once upon a [...]

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Moss Swatch

June 26, 2009 Swatches

Thank you all so much…… for STILL reading my blog and providing so much insight for me about my last post. I finally get it. Pick Up and Knit and Pick Up are 2 totally different things and yield 2 totally different results. How you pick up also makes a big difference. I would totally [...]

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Ostrich Egg

January 18, 2009 Stash

Doesn’t this look like a huge Ostrich Egg to you?     Well, it is non other than the cheap J&P Coats Royale Large Ball #10 Classic Crochet Cotton. The reason for this purchase was because it was cheap and I am going to “try” to knit the Mallins 44 Niebling pattern from the Nieblings [...]

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