These are the beauties I finished up last week, the pattern is called Maidenhair Fern and it was a fun knit. I am totally in love with this yarn, Nova Sock that I picked up in the woods before we moved. It's pretty and soft without being so soft it slips off the needles. (read). | |
These babies, my Zephyr socks, were my first ever Sockdown socks. Knit in a beautiful yarn by Alisha Goes Around, called Panoply of Peacocks Fingering in 'Parted'. I ordered it from The Loopy Ewe and I seriously recommend them to anyone. They are a wonderful shop! Physically, they are in Fort Collins in Colorado. The next time we are in Colorado I'd love to take a drive up there! (read). | |
So with the Ravellenic Games behind me for another two years, the desire to knit my face off is still in full force. Thankfully my life is actually pretty conductive to that, so away I went casting on and finishing a pair of cute baby socks for my girl Sammie. Well, they're for her baby duh, but that baby isn't finished cooking yet. That gives me more time to knit other cute things for her! (read). | |
I finished the Hedgerow socks and popped them in the mail yesterday! So in the next week or so my husband�s wonderful Nanny will get her extremely late handmade birthday gift! Photos of that after these little cuties. (read). | |
These are pretty special socks because while just like a lot of the socks I've made in the last two years, they were cast on in the woods of Central Ontario, but theeeeen they were knitted on across the United States. I knitted on these socks in ten different states (Michigan, Indiana, Illinois, Missouri, Kansas, Colorado, Utah, Arizona, Nevada and California - for the curious). The recipient of these socks will absolutely love that little trivia about them so she's the right person to have them for sure! (read). | |
I have been very good this week and stuck with the baby legwarmers without touching the Flying Arrows socks at all. I have been spending a lot of my evenings doing research for something that's sort of a really big deal but that I shouldn't talk about until I have more details on it. Vague enough for you?!? That's what has kept me from knitting, that and the very same something has me going on less errands lately so I'm not knitting in the car as much either! This pattern (Socks for Mary Janes) really is alarmingly cute and would work so well on a little girl in Mary Janes. The little girl I'm making the legwarmer version of these for will look equally adorable running around her house in her little skirts and sneakers. (read). |
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I knitted this blanket for our cousin Jenn and her new husband Adam. They're mega, super rad. It was a pretty easy knit once I got going on it, the bulk of it was a bit much in warmer months, but totally worth it. (read). |
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I love, love, love to knit skulls. That makes me sound a whole lot gothier than I actually am. I just really love the contrast between knitting, which is seen as such an old lady hobby with so much tradition of creating for family and all the warm and fuzzies that go with that, and skulls which of course are seen as gothy and punky and maybe a little dark and weird - definitely not what your Granny would likely knit. (read). |
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Yarn is the one thing I will allow to collect in my craft stash. I've been knitting through my queue on Ravelry, mostly the socks and I've recently fallen pretty hard for The Loopy Ewe, a yarn shop with a serious love for sock yarns. While drooling over this site, I made a wish list for the yarns I want to use for some of my favourite patterns. Loooooove all of this yarn! The woman behind the shop keeps up her blog, here. (read). |
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I had about 20 facecloth/dishcloth patterns in my queue on Ravelry at Christmas when I made a satck of these for my huband's aunt and uncle, my husbands mother loved them and I wanted to make a similar stack for her as a birthday gift this year. I went with the Diamonds in the Rough cloths. (read). |