Tag: knitting

Finito!

Finito!

August 25, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 5 Comments

My garden sometimes surprises me. We cut back the rose bushes this past spring, and I really didn’t expect anything from them. I’ve since learned not to underestimate my roses.  Well…the roses at the back of the garden. While the rose bush at the front of the garden continues its three year trend of producing […]

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Let the Scarefest begin!

Let the Scarefest begin!

August 24, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 5 Comments

It’s no secret that my favourite season is autumn. I grew up in a town where as the summer wound down, the trees turned colour, and there was a hint of all the smells of fall in the air. Living in a city without a bunch of colour-changing maple trees has been a little disorienting…summer […]

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Yarn winding and deck painting

Yarn winding and deck painting

August 22, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 0 Comments

I totally forgot that today is Wednesday. Good thing I remembered in time! So…what’s in progress around here? For starters…I’ve been working away at my spinning: That’s Crown Mountain Farms Corriedale Pencil Roving in “Stonehenge”, for those who missed the last post on the subject. I’m enjoying spinning this stuff up, even though it’s not […]

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It’s a secret to everyone

It’s a secret to everyone

August 15, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 0 Comments

Well, we’ve gotten through the morning and afternoon of Wednesday and are now looking down the barrel of evening/night. The day isn’t over yet, though, and that means a WIP Wednesday is still possible! So!  What’s in the Tardis Bag and my Skully bag?  Um…I can’t show you those. They’re designs-in-progress that aren’t for public […]

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Metamorphoses

Metamorphoses

August 1, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 0 Comments

It’s another WIP Wednesday! I would have posted sooner, but with the weather being overcast and rainy, I barely had time to bring in the laundry yesterday. Which is OK, because that gave me time to turn the heel on the 2nd of Robin’s grey-and-red socks It also gave me time to turn some of […]

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One down, one to go!

One down, one to go!

July 25, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 0 Comments

So I decided, after all my issues with gauge, to just rib the heck out of Robin’s new socks. I figure that if they’re a wee bit large, the ribbing will fix that little problem! 😉 So I’ve started on sock #2, and am ticking along fairly quickly all things considered. Having to purl usually […]

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Socks – I got ’em.

Socks – I got ’em.

July 21, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 2 Comments

Looks like the sock mojo is back. Now that I’m not knitting the Weeping Angel prototypes over & over, I’m giving myself a little “fun time” to cleanse the palate. Enter the Rollins Socks: Pattern: Basic toe-up with a Fleegle Heel. Size: Ladies 9 – 10. 64 sts on size 2.5mm Addi Turbos. Yarn: Knitglobal […]

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Friday Five: Fading

Friday Five: Fading

July 20, 2012 by Maire in Whimsy / 0 Comments

It’s been awhile since I did one of these… Today’s Friday Five is all about Fading. What’s something in your possession whose color has obviously faded? — numerous pairs of socks. Particularly the Koigu handpaints. I absolutely love the colours, but they fade so quickly! And, unfortunately, this yarn tends to wear thin quickly, so […]

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Stripey fun

Stripey fun

July 18, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 0 Comments

I realized, as I was headed out the door to work on Monday evening, that I already had a pair of vanilla socks on the needles. Of course, that’s not going to stop me from knitting the grey-and-orangey-red socks, but they may not be finished as quickly as they might have been otherwise. These are […]

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Dear Gauge: WTF?

Dear Gauge: WTF?

July 16, 2012 by Maire in Hobbies / 2 Comments

Her Royal Catness seems to be under the impression that I am her personal sofa, and thus I have had to adjust my knitting to accommodate her. In other news, while my brain gnaws over the ideas for the next sock design, I cast on for something relatively brainless: Top-down socks for the Husbeast. Originally, […]

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