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The day I snuck onto my own site just to suckerpunch it
Damn, it’s dusty here. It feels a little bit weird to break a two-year silence. I’ve been sewing and knitting in the wilds beyond the internet, and it felt great. But the urge to talk shop to strangers on the web dies hard. Today I posted my first project entry on Burdastyle and the Sew…
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Look What Got Resurrected For Dia De Los Muertos
It’s Frrrrancis! …And me. Also me. Hi, Interweb. This blog suffered the triple threat: missing knitting mojo, missing writing mojo, and missing camera. All of my writing energy was going to my internship at ScientificBlogging, and then my real job. It was hot, and I was cranky, and there was a rock in my shoe.…
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Mighty Morphin’ Minisweater
And whatever happened to that previous going-to-a-wedding minisweater, the gauge-adjusted Anthropologie capelet? Early last fall it changed into a beautiful butterfly. This sweater’s name is Meteora. I would name everything Meteora if Linkin Park hadn’t ruined it for the rest of us. Meteora is the Queen of the Asteroids from The Christmas Toy, which “influenced”…
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Victorian Adventure Socks!
Still trying to recapture the ol’ knitting mojo. It’s a good thing my grad knitting group cancelled itself today, because I’d have showed up with nothing but gauge swatches to work on. While I try very hard to answer the important questions of pre-knitting, I’d like to share a few of my triumphs from The…
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“Lucky” is “Finished”
… and I am, shall we say, “dissatisfied” with the results*. I’d planned this to have zero ease, but that didn’t happen very much. Except in the sleeves. Finished Lucky v1.0 had an extended side tie. Pardon the flamenco-poses here, but I am trying to show the amount of RAW UNADULTERATED CINCH required to tie…
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Finished: The Big Green
While I’m busy futzing around with the Widdershin Heel on these pesky Noro socks, I’d like to show off my green sweater! Check it out! I’m wearing it, and it buttons and everything, and the pockets work! It’s pretty much exactly what I wanted, and though I screwed up the cable on it somewhere, I’m…
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December: Better than all of the Octobers were
So you know how people worry that Ravelry will be the death of blogs? Haven’t you happened upon a blogger or two lately who put all her stuff up on Ravelry, but neglected to document it blogside? Well, now you’ve happened upon a blogger or three. Blogging apparently has a lot in common with eating…
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The Hacky Sack Sweater…
…is my pattern in Son of Stitch ‘N Bitch! Which was bestowed upon my mailbox this week! If you’ve noticed that 100% of my two published patterns are hoodies, then give yourself a pat on the back. If it ain’t got a hood, it ain’t no good. I intend to say that to my grandkids…
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Terrorists: your game is through, ’cause now you’ve got to answer to…
My finished socks. Specs: 4×4 rib pattern, on US0 40? circular needles, 450yds of Froehlich Blauband Special. For interested parties doing some kind of yarn economy calculation, I used 100% of that 250 yds on each sock, on 64 sts with no calf increases; they knit to 14? calves, but wear at 12?. I’ve already…
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Last Week, Part II.
Which, I guess, is actually two weeks ago now. The story behind the following picture is that I didn’t actually rendezvous with my Pure Knits yarn until I got back home to California. Instead, some serious sockage happened. I finished a mate to a single sock that has been hanging around since like 2005, and…