Showing posts with label knitting designs. Show all posts
Showing posts with label knitting designs. Show all posts
24 March 2015

New Shawl Design: Randomly Productive

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I grew up with a bit of an overdose of Protestant work ethic: you must be productive. The Devil makes work for idle hands. Being lazy is a ...
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07 February 2015

New Shawl

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When my brain goes walkabout it tends to come back with new knitting designs.  Use the code comeonspring and get it for fifty cents. :) It...
11 July 2014

Simply Comfortable: new shawl design

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At Fibre Week two years ago, my friend pulled this gorgeous naturally dyed yarn out of her basket and I exclaimed “Oh! I need that!” … so sh...
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31 March 2014

The Cold Never Bothered Me Anyway

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If you haven’t yet seen Frozen , I highly recommend it. Even if you haven’t got kids. It’s got a lot of thought-provoking things to say: m...
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21 February 2014

New shawl design: A Dash of the Waves

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Like it’s predecessor, A Dash of Colour , this shawl is a one-skein adventure, meant to work well with colourful sock yarn. It requires almo...
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19 December 2013

What does your Brave Girl look like?

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My counsellor asked me that this week. “What does your Brave Girl look like?” I thought for a minute. She has a sword in her hand, ...
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12 December 2013

When the brain is on overdrive

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Lately, my brain is on overdrive: scattered, frazzled, hard to focus on anything, trouble remembering things, the usual. After effects from ...
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16 August 2013

Sunny Dee: a new shawl pattern available

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A little while ago, there was talk in one of my favourite Ravelry groups of the ongoing projects some of us had on the needles that were des...
11 August 2013

Frazzlehead’s Handspun Sock Recipe

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I spun up three 100 gram Frazzlebatts. I plyed them together and made two big balls of 3 ply yarn. Sparkly, purple and red and blue yarn. T...
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28 September 2012

Diablo’s Ribbons

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Almost a year ago, I was asked if I would take a prize-winning alpaca fleece, clean it, prepare it for spinning, spin it into yarn, and knit...
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05 September 2012

Travel knitting

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The Reluctant Farmer and I are heading out on a bit of a road trip tomorrow morning: we are going to visit his parents (yes, I actually like...
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23 July 2012

Prism Polygon Shawl Pattern: now available

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The pattern for the shawl I entered in the Mary Maxim contest is now available for purchase on Ravelry (or with buy now' target=_blank...
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16 July 2012

Design Contest Update

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I entered two pieces in the Mary Maxim design contest … a pink shawl and an autumn leaves afghan . My mom called today to tell me that I ...
13 June 2012

If it isn’t working, try something else

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The online course that I created awhile back to teach people how to knit lace seemed like a great idea. Until a student tried to register...
29 May 2012

Ready to go in the mail

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Here it is, the Autumn Afghan: The contest entry labels are on the afghan and the shawl, the projects are neatly folded in a box with ...
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Success!

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The afghan is done! I will be blocking it today and hopefully have pictures for you soon. Speaking of pictures … I inadvertently deleted s...
28 May 2012

Almost done

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The leaves are done. The plain border is done. All that remains is the very outer garter stitch edging.
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22 May 2012

One stitch at a time

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One stitch at a time, a ball of string becomes fabric. One stitch at a time, a piece of fabric turns into a recognizable shape. One stitch...
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13 May 2012

Ta da!

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05 May 2012

Design Competition: progress

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The afghan for the Mary Maxim design competition has been hibernating for a while – I set it aside to finish up my brother-in-law’s lap bla...
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