A year goes by
12 Apr 2012 Leave a Comment
in cupcake, life Tags: law school, life, om nom nom, wedding
Yeah, I kept starting posts and never finishing them. So now, a year after I wrote last, here I am again, promising to keep up this time.
I have some projects to show off, but that will have to wait. First, all the newsy bits:
1. We are getting married! In…23 days.
2. I start law school at UW Madison in the fall.
3. We acquired a kitten in September. His official name is General Leonidas McFuzzyBritches, but really he’s more like Corporal Leonidas McFuzzyBritches, because he can’t meow. He just squeaks. He turned a year old yesterday, weighs twelve pounds, and is still growing. He is adorable.
4. I have the best license plates ever now:
Pictures of various other things to follow at some point. This is all I’ve got right now. Sorry.
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Project Update
12 Apr 2011 Leave a Comment
in knitting, projects Tags: armwarmers, lace, swatch
So projects big and small are progressing. I’m taking a small break from shawls to work on armwarmers for sale at Onusara, a lacy scarf also for sale at Onusara, and a cardigan, which I’ve swatched but not otherwise started because of the other projects. I also promised Cupcake’s youngest a knitted Dalek for his birthday, which is this weekend, and I rather suspect I won’t have it done in time, but I will definitely try.
My Bloody Valentine
21 Mar 2011 1 Comment
in knitting, projects Tags: beads, FOs, lace, shawls
I took well over a month to complete the Ethereal Shawl, since it was the Most Frustrating Project Ever. I knit. I frogged. I swore. I knit some more. I swore some more. And I have no idea why it was so frakking hard, because the pattern itself was not that difficult, no more so than Frozen Leaves – I just had one problem after another doing it, and nearly gave up more than once.
Finally, at long last, it’s done, in Knit Picks Shimmer, colorway Sherry, with 6/0 seed beads in a translucent pearly bronze, and here are the pictures to prove it. More
Beading Tutorial
17 Mar 2011 Leave a Comment
in tutorials Tags: beads, tools
I have done several beaded projects now, and have tried a couple of different methods of beading to see what I like best. I’ve been doing a variation of the Dental Floss Method on my Ethereal Shawl, using a sewing needle and thread, and I promised a quick tutorial to some of the folks in the Beginning Lace Knitters, so here it is. If you want to see the pictures bigger, just click em and they’ll embiggen for you.
What you’re trying to do with any beading method (other than pre-stringing your yarn with beads) is to somehow get a loop of yarn (your stitch) through your bead. And while you could just poke your stitch at the bead and hope it goes through, it will take you a very, very long time, assuming you have the eyesight and coordination to want to try it in the first place (I don’t).
So what you need to do is use some kind of tool to pull the loop through the bead. Crochet hooks are good, if you have appropriately teeny crochet hooks, and if you have the patience to try and catch your loop on a nearly invisible hook (again, I don’t).
Or you can use thread (or dental floss) to pull a stitch through a bead… More
Projects Finished and Otherwise
10 Feb 2011 Leave a Comment
in knitting Tags: fair isle, hats, lace, shawls
I’m in the process of putting together a massive picture/slideshow post for Patches, who left for the Rainbow Bridge on 1/14. Cupcake and I are heading out to Colorado for a short family visit next week, and I’ll be digging through the picture boxes to find all the old kitten pictures and such and get them scanned. So expect that post in the next couple of weeks.
Meanwhile, I’ve got a handful of projects to show off… More
FO Friday
07 Jan 2011 2 Comments
in kittehs, knitting Tags: dovecote, FOs, knitting, lace, shawls, socks
Several things have been finished for awhile, but I’ve been spending more time hanging out with my sick kitty than blogging. We will have Patches around for about another week, and…that’s it. So that’s been tough, but knitting is keeping me going. So here are the things I’ve gotten done…
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Sneak Preview Sunday
21 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in knitting Tags: dovecote, knitting, lace, shawls, wips
The body of the Dovecote is done, and I am 2/3rds of the way done with the knit-on edging. Should finish up this week. Sneak preview after the jump.
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Much delayed progress report
11 Nov 2010 Leave a Comment
in knitting, Uncategorized Tags: FOs, knitting, shawls
My Dovecote is nearly done. Woo.
I finished the Boogaruni nearly a month ago now. She loves it. Pictures after the jump. More
Drive-by WIPs
26 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in cupcake, knitting Tags: armwarmers, cables, celtic-stuff, cupcake, knitting, shawls, wips
Don’t have a lot of time right now. Just some piccies instead. More
FO Friday
17 Sep 2010 2 Comments
in knitting Tags: FOs, knitting, lace, shawls
So I actually finished something!
This little number is about 7.5 feet long; it was a bit more, but it’s relaxing slightly from the blocking, which is fine, because I didn’t intend to block it that hard in the first place (it just happened!), and would rather it were slightly shorter. It’s lovely, and doesn’t match anything I own, but that’s fine. I like it.
I’ve now cast on for Booga’s Haruni, and will have a post of that as soon as it looks like something worth taking a picture of. Right now it looks like someone threw up a bunch of easter egg-colored spaghetti. Gross, right? But apt.
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The Yarn Harlot
