Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Showing posts with label projects. Show all posts
Tuesday, May 1, 2007
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Craftyness
Tank top, finally, a pic, here:
The Harry Potter shawl, looks more like a sparkly bat ray right now:
And cupcake and card making for volunteer apprication week at my work. We made 90 cupcakes and two kinds of buttercream and about the same amount of cards. Here are some I did today( We didn't get em all done last night.)
freezer full o' cupcakes:
The Harry Potter shawl, looks more like a sparkly bat ray right now:
And cupcake and card making for volunteer apprication week at my work. We made 90 cupcakes and two kinds of buttercream and about the same amount of cards. Here are some I did today( We didn't get em all done last night.)
freezer full o' cupcakes:
Thursday, April 12, 2007
Why I need a ball winder
550 yards of yarn wound by hand. =P
But this yarn will hopefully, magically, turn into this shawl.
It's the Wing o' the Moth shawl from Knitspot and a rather dramatic departure from my usual projects. but the tank top(still blocking) has convinced me "I can knit anything now".
And it might not happen, but since it's the Harry Potter yarn, I am hoping for some conjuring magic to aide me.
Tuesday, March 27, 2007
knitting now!
Lately I have been making washcloths and dishrags. Dishrag pattern is from the Mason Dixon Knitting Book which has a lot of wonderful stuff in it and I love it. The washcloths are generally just random swatches of stitch patterns in a nice soft cotton yarn.
Now the new exciting project is a tank top. It's exciting 'cause I have not ventured out of the squareish shaped knitting projects often. I have been knitting for about 2 years, but the sweater seems so daunting. I have completed things like cool hats and fingerless gloves and even a BABY sweater, but a full size adult shirt of any sort? Nay. Same for socks, and lace patterns. So this project is a new foray! Lacework! Shaping! more than 3 balls of yarn! (ok the baby blanket and shawl were more than 3 balls of yarn too, but they are rectangles and therefore do not count!)
SO here it is as of now:
And a recently completed project, which was also a triumph, was the pattern I had been eyeing ever since I was a knitting neophyte, from the book Scarf Style. The pattern is Lady Elenore's Entrelac Stole and it's lovely. My mom bought be lots of yummy yarn, Trendsetter's Tonalita in several different colorways, when I went home last to visit. Entrelac is not hard, but all I had to explain how it worked was the written pattern. Of course after I finished the stole, Interweave Knits magazine had a lovely illustrated tutorial in the new spring issue...*sigh*
Now the new exciting project is a tank top. It's exciting 'cause I have not ventured out of the squareish shaped knitting projects often. I have been knitting for about 2 years, but the sweater seems so daunting. I have completed things like cool hats and fingerless gloves and even a BABY sweater, but a full size adult shirt of any sort? Nay. Same for socks, and lace patterns. So this project is a new foray! Lacework! Shaping! more than 3 balls of yarn! (ok the baby blanket and shawl were more than 3 balls of yarn too, but they are rectangles and therefore do not count!)
SO here it is as of now:
And a recently completed project, which was also a triumph, was the pattern I had been eyeing ever since I was a knitting neophyte, from the book Scarf Style. The pattern is Lady Elenore's Entrelac Stole and it's lovely. My mom bought be lots of yummy yarn, Trendsetter's Tonalita in several different colorways, when I went home last to visit. Entrelac is not hard, but all I had to explain how it worked was the written pattern. Of course after I finished the stole, Interweave Knits magazine had a lovely illustrated tutorial in the new spring issue...*sigh*
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