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  • Sick…

    Everyone in my house has been sick in one way or another this week, except for me. And now I am tired. I really hope this doesn’t mean it’s my turn.

  • Nantucket Jacket is finished!

    Buttons on and it was just cool enough to wear it the first half of today. I love it, and this time my sister won’t get it. ^_^

  • Ravelry

    Wow I finally got onto Ravelry. I think I signed up on the waiting list several months ago. They are inviting 400 people a day and it took that long to get to me. This is the the coolest site. It is a place for knitters and crocheters to keep track of their projects; finished,…

  • Nantucket Jacket

    I finished the Nantucket jacket from Interweave Interweave knits Winter 2006. Knit with Knitpicks Swish Superwash in Indigo heather. I added two inches to the body length since I am tall, but I think I could have added an inch or so more so that the flare would really fall on the hips. I added…

  • Finished Socks

    These are the Clessidra stockings you can find the pattern on knitty.com. I used Knitpicks Bare – Merino Wool/ Silk, fingering weight yarn. I thought knitting knee socks might be tedious, but these were great. The patterning of the cables kept it interesting all the way to the toes. These are the Embossed leaves from…

  • Spam Blog?

    For some reason blogger flagged my blog as a spam blog and I was unable to post for several days until blogger looked at my blog to confirm that it was a normal blog. I am not sure if this is somehow a result of being listed on blogs of note and getting an extraordinary…

  • What’s on the needles

    Finished just in time for my trip to Maine. This is the Soleil top from knitty.com knit with Knitpicks Shine sport. This is the second top I have knit in this pattern. I knit this one in the same size for the bottom half as my previous top but with a smaller size for the…

  • Stitches Midwest

    Yesterday My daughter Nina and I went to Stitches Midwest. I went because I wanted to fondle yarn, Nina went because she’s a good sport. When we got there we saw all these guys with big bags full of gaming and comic book stuff and found out that Wizard World Chicago was also at the…

  • Blog Resdesign

    I always look at other peoples blogs and see other features that I like. When I was at the Blogher conference I asked a table of women one morning what is the best blogging platform. They all said WordPress- self hosted. As the day went on and I went to a blogging technology talk, basically…

  • The first Cute skirt

    This is the first Cute Skirt I made.The one I said was poofy in the back. I thought about reworking the skirt by ripping out all those stitched and zig zagged seams, But the thought of all that ripping and reworking waistbands was more work than I wanted to do. So I ripped open the…

  • The cutest Cute Skirt

    I adore this skirt. It is from the Cute Skirts pattern and made with Heather Bailey‘s gorgeous fabric. I made a Cute skirt before this one. I haven’t posted a picture of it because I was not happy with the fit. I made the size according to my waist and hip measurements on the package.…

  • The first skirt

    This is the Emily skirt, and the great fabric came from Sew Mama Sew.This is a fairly easy pattern. The pleats worked out great with this particular print. I was able to get the stripe to fall right into the pleat. The one change I will make the next time I make this skirt is…

  • Sewing?

    I can’t believe how many beautiful fabrics there are on the market now.It makes me want to sew *gasp* skirts!I learned to sew in high school from Ms. Issel the best home-ec teacher ever. In my senior year I spent five of my seven periods a day in either a home-ec class or the art…

  • Clessidra stockings

    I am making the Clessidra stockings that can be found on knitty.com with Knitpicks Bare – Merino Wool/ Silk, fingering weight yarn.I love these. (It is not easy photographing your own leg.)I thought it would be awful making knee socks. The ankle socks I have made in the past seem to take an eternity. These…

  • Quilt entry shattered

    I just got a call from Crystal over at IQA that my CD entry for the show shattered. I sent it UPS in a padded envelope in a jewel case. She said they have had a couple that have shattered. Luckily I was able to email my entry to them.

  • The Golden Compass Trailer

    I am so excited to see they are making a film based on The Golden Compass by Phillip Pullman. I loved this book when I read it ten years ago, it will be a visual feast now that we have the computer technology to animate this so realistically. This is in the young adult genre…

  • Knit graffiti

    I love this. Making the world a little more colorful one stitch at a time. This group based in Stockholm Sweden is adding their knitting to public places to make creative statements. See more on their blog Maquerade.

  • Abby’s got a brand new bag

    I saw a guy at the Antiques market last week with a bag like this for his dog. What a perfect bag, made with heavy duck cloth and a quilted lining. It is from Wagwear. There are days when Abby wants to be held all the time and it is a little hard getting things…