Posted on 09/16/2008 by Barb
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Well, I've finally finished the pattern for the vintage holiday stocking I first worked on back in March, then declared as a project for the Ravelympics and failed to complete at that time.
I said I'd share the pattern when I was finished, so here it is! There's a nip in the air, not too early to think about those Christmas projects.
When I'm sitting at the hospital over the next few days, I'll be working on the Leo ...
Who knows? Maybe it will be done by Christmas ... maybe not.
Posted on 03/07/2008 by Barb
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It’s funny how something as insignificant as wrist warmers can affect your life. (Well, that might be an overstatement … your life.) Some areas of our office can feel chilly so I’ve been knitting wrist warmers to keep around for anyone who’s feeling the need for a little something cozy. They’re pretty quick and easy to do once you get the hang of entrelac, and they’re a great way to use up scraps of odds and ends of yarn. They’ve become quite the rage around the office! (Well, that might be an overstatement, too!)
Posted on 02/19/2008 by Barb
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It was a great day for just hanging out with Andrea, balmy almost. We've had a pretty cold winter here (it was -5 degrees this morning, brrrr). But Saturday it actually got above freezing!! We (and I hardly dare whisper it) left our coats in the car while we shopped!
First, we went yarn shopping at Double Ewe, a yarn store near where Andrea lives that I had never been to. The owner, Kelly is very sweet and helpful. It’s a smaller shop but nice – go there if you get a chance.
This is the yarn I bought from Kelly. Today we have our after-work sit n’ knit, and I’m going to work on this. I love the colors, and the cleverness of the stow-away pocket design.
After Double Ewe, we headed for Mall of America – the 2008 Knit-Out was there last weekend. We watched a round of the speed knitting competition. The fastest person there did (I hope I’m remembering this correctly) 170 (stockinette??) stitches in 3 minutes. Andrea said the winner is someone famous ...?? Andrea (or someone), help me out here, please, who is she?
On the subject of speed knitting competitions, I saw in the August 2007 issue of Knit ‘n Style (given away at the Event) that Lisa Gentry completed 209 stockinette stitches in some competition, and does 2 stitches a second in garter stitch. That’s 120 stitches a minute ... 360 stitches in 3 minutes! That’s flyin’! I see she also broke the Guinness World Record “Fastest Crocheter” in 2005 … now, that’s being an over-achiever! She was apparently at the Knit-Out event but I didn’t see her.
And while at MOA we bought a little something for Steph ... I can't talk about that, though, in case she reads this post. So even though she's way out in Boston, we were hanging out with her, too, in spirit if not in fact!
Finally, we ended up over at my house cooking Andrea's vegetarian chili, which has now become my favorite chili recipe.
It was a really fine, fine day.
Posted on 01/10/2008 by Barb
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When we first started this blog, I thought, "Gee, wouldn't it be cool if we could post a pattern for pink argyle socks knitted in the round ... I've never seen hand-knitted argyle socks that didn't have a seam up the back." (Well, there might be a reason for that.)
Anyway, off I go! I think, "maybe Fair Isle ... maybe intarsia." I set out to do it Fair Isle. It didn't take long to conclude that I couldn't keep the carried-along yarn loose enough to get the sock over my heel.
To make a long story short, we now have a pattern in our DIY section for pink argyle wrist warmers, modeled here by my niece's son who used them as boxing gloves when he wasn't being annoying with the remote. (Okay, it's important not to take oneself too seriously, right?) But I do (seriously) love how they turned out. It was a fun little challenge so I thought I'd share the pattern. Make 'em, wear 'em, and you're guaranteed to get some comments!
Posted on 11/21/2007 by Andrea
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Originally uploaded by AMK
We decided to put up a new
DIY section to collect patterns we've written, recipes we've invented, or any other instructions for how to make things.
Because it seemed so timely, I decided to start with this pattern for making
mini mitten ornaments. I came up with this several years ago, and knitted these ones for a Christmas gift for my Grandma.
These are so quick to knit, once your fingers get used to the awkwardness of knitting 18 stitches on size 1 DPNs. And they're a great way to get some use out of all that leftover sock yarn threatening to take over your house (or is that just me?)
