Archives » January, 2010

Snowmen

For some reason, this photo makes me happy.
I love the scowling one at the bottom.
Remember, when life gives you snow, make snowmen.

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Dark, Rainy Days

Edit: Make that dark, snowy, days…
Do not make for good indoor photographs of lace.

Especially when it’s still dawn.
But you get the idea, I’m sure. I was going to just show you a shapeless blob, but with a little help from my pins, you can get a better look at the pattern.
I’ve got an upcoming road [...]

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FO: Baktus

A portrait in blue.

Pattern: Baktus Scarf (on Ravelry here), modified as in Eskimimi’s notes.
Needles: US 2.5 (3mm)
Yarn: Schoppel-Wolle Zauberball, color 1535
Ravelry: Project page
The finished scarf (unblocked) measures about 48″ long by 13″ wide at the center.
I like it, and I think it will be great with jeans.

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Cables, cables, and more cables

Introducing Shauna (Ravelry page here):

Sport-weight yarn, US 5 (3.75mm) needles. And lots and lots of cables.
The hem was supposed to be knitted on US 0 needles (2mm), but I didn’t have any circular needles in that size, so I used US 1 (2.25mm). Hopefully it will be OK. If not, I guess I’ll just cut [...]

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Back to Bak-tus

While waiting for the yarn to start my new sweater project, I’ve started working on Baktus again.

At least now the striping is more obvious. There are stripes on the end point, but it’s hard to tell in the photo. Even in real life, they’re just barely visible.
And that next sweater? It will be Shauna (on [...]

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