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Someone’s been a busy girl!

Monday, February 8th, 2010 | Stitches, UFO's, crafts, knitting, sweater | No Comments

The slippery slope of my latest crafting phase started like this…

A Special Order...

My sister-in-law works for an entertainment union that…oh screw it, I’m not using names…the girl works for Screen Actors Guild and needed some fancy jewelry for the latest SAG Awards. I made this. It is a crappy photo, I know, but they turned out really pretty.

Stitch Markers Galore!

While I have been in my whole “trying to make lemonade” phase, I’ve decided to start getting my act together and start selling stuff. I haven’t gotten all of my photographs taken and color corrected yet, but for a girl who works a full time gig *and* has preschool aged twins, I think I am making pretty decent progress.

I am also attempting to get a little knitting done. While waiting to get the Manos I ordered for my Clasica Coat, I broke down cast on a new sweater. I had some Asland Trends Invernal in my stash to knit February Lady so I started it. It’ll be freakin’ awesome and so far it seems like a pretty quick knit. I anticipate I will have it done in time to wear to Stitches West.

Coming along nicely...

The buttons will definitely make this sweater extra awesome. I got them from happysilence on etsy.

Tags: february lady, jewelry, skulls, stitch markers

::Screams::

Thursday, October 23rd, 2008 | FO's, blah blah blah, crafts, knitting | 2 Comments

EEK!!

Ok I am better now. Talk about a lot of stuff all happening at once! It has been a crazy week. I have to admit, not much knitting is happening at present, but a lot of other stuff is going on. Most of it revolves around trying to get my home in a state of cleanliness and order because my folks are flying out friday night to stay with us for a week. Where the hell do I hide all the fiber?

Sidenote: I really don’t NEED to hide the fiber. My mom understands the obsession and embraces it…thankfully.

So, on the crafty side. I finished the Bubbles and Cables cowl, well, I haven’t acually gotten it off the needles yet. I was looking to see if there was a good stretchy bind off besides EZ’s sewn bind off that I could do.

Fluffy, pettable cowl

I only ended up doing about three repeats on this one as opposed to the five that the pattern called for. I don’t know, maybe I have a squatty neck or something, but 5 repeats seemed like a whole lotta fabric to me.

I am also thinking about using this same yarn for the February Lady sweater, but I discovered something (while wearing black and waiting to go to out to meet up with some friends). I found that the yarn sure does shed. I was all fuzzy. Now, I am not sure if it would matter much, I mean, I am completely and totally in love with this yarn…and I would probably be knitting that sweater in dark brown or something….

I also have been playing around with the shrinky dinks some more. Look at my new stitch markers!!