Preparing for Fall

Been slacking on my FO posts, yes. Here’s a couple to make up for the relative knitting-content radio silence lately.

Nine Inches

Don’t mistake the title for anything lewd or bawdy. Unless you tend to get that kind of excited from knitting supplies. I know some people who come dangerously close to taking the craft down that road.

Anyhow, the nine inches I’m referring to are specifically of the Clover 9″ size 2 circular needles from Twisted Knitter I wrote about several posts back. I finally cleared my WiP queue enough to cast something on to the tiny circ and try it out.

D-IKEA-Y

I’ve had a HULTET bowl from IKEA for several years. It’s a decorative bowl, unsuited for food or liquids, so it’s mostly sat around on various tables and shelves, sometimes holding candies, wax tarts, tea lights, beads or other odds and ends.

Gray May Day

It’s a pretty dreary day today. But I come bearing an FO, some yarn porn and other picture spam!

A Sunday Smile

I finished this a couple of weeks ago, but I’m lazy.

Pattern: Just a 2×2 rib
Yarn: 1 ball Cascade 220 heathers purchased at The Wool Patch
Needles: US 8/5.0mm straights
Started: Feb 1
Finished: Mar 25
- CO 20 sts.
- Work in 2×2 rib (k2, p2 every row), sl the first st of each row for nice edges.
- End when [...]

Free Green Beans

Spring break was mostly uneventful here. It was a week spent largely chillin’ at home, knitting, playing games on Steam, playing errand-person and chauffeur, staying up late and sleeping in. Good times.
Massachusetts doesn’t seem to understand it’s supposed to be spring and the weather is still averaging around 37-40 degrees at 2pm, usually with a [...]

…In which progress is made

True to my word, I am growing as an emerging knitter. I’d only played around with the basics before, but I’m now tackling my first real project. Dare I say I may be enjoying knitting more than crochet, but I’ll always hold crocheting close to my heart.
After finding that nice wool/acrylic blend yarn on the [...]

I wonder about me

Car’s fixed. Starter was replaced, and everything is running fine now. I fixed my PS2’s DRE problem (and didn’t even require a tiny screwdriver), so I can actually PLAY my PSX/PS2 games again. Go me!
Stressful week, not going to go into it. It was just… stressful.
I need some fiberfill for the Frog Beanie (Ravelry link) [...]

First scarf

I finished a simple scarf pattern I found some time around the middle of April, but didn’t get around to snapping any photos of it until now. So, here it is~

It was simple, and worked up incredibly fast. I was actually so used to going through the motions that I wasn’t even paying attention to [...]

Ravelry

Combine myspace, deviantart, last.fm, flickr and a love of yarn and you basically get Ravelry. It’s currently invite-only beta, so I can’t directly link to anything anyone would be able to access, but it is a dream come true for me. Patterns, topical social networks and a way to organize and keep track of my [...]