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Most recent rendition of the Test Your Skills Sampler to cap off our Skill Builder series. Feedback requested - see blog post for details.
Originally on the Sampler site here:
www.homeofthesampler.com/howtos/index.html
Blogged to CRAFT here: www.craftzine.com/blog/archive/2007/01/how_to_tea_stained...
Pickle sampler - Shiso beet, dill grape, passion fruit cabbage krout, sunchoke & brussel sprout with berry juice,red onion with rose, onion + lime + jalapeno, pineapple + napa cabbage kimchi, cauliflower * 3ways
Device used to anchor the sediment traps to the bottom, at Upriver Dam, Spokane River. Photo credit: Adriane Borgias
of the microbrews at Basil T's in Red Bank. They were all quite tasty, although the red and the brown were my favorites. It was surprisingly fun to have six tiny beers all for myself.
A snap of a palm tree on St Kilda beach in Melbourne, Australia. Taken with a Super Sampler and some generic 100ASA colour film. January 2001. Photo by Ed.
Designer: Little House Needleworks
Fabric: 32ct Antique Cotton R&R Reproduction Linen with DMC and Crescent Colors threads
Stitch count: 123h x 91w
Started: 27. October. 2007
Finished: 26. November. 2007
Nine of the blocks were won in a Block Lotto; since they didn't go together, i thought to start on a sampler. I was helped by finding precut tan and red squares in a pile I bought at an auction, also the pinwheel triangles. I used the suares and pinwheels as leaders and enders until i had a critical mass. I used some for the four patch square in the 54-40 or fight where i wanted to practice with my new tri-recs ruler.
For my sampler blanket - the first knitting project I started, but not the first I've finished. I've been working on it for a year and a half, and have only knit up half of the yarn. Plymouth Yarn's Encore 25% wool 75% acrylic.
I'm not so sure I really like the yarn, now that I've knit with wool/alpaca blends and Noro... but I do like that I've been able to grow and challenge my knitting skills by making each set of squares an excuse to learn a new pattern.
Started a couple of new ones. This one has weeks 7 (detached chain stitch) & 8 (chain stitch, which will make up the whole border when I finish)
A knitting sampler, knitted last night and about to be frogged. I used the yarn that I got from the Biggan Dups class on Continental Knitting at the iKnit Weekender. It is DK weight 100% Australian Merino Wool and a delight to knit with. All of this stitch patterns were worked from "400 Knitting Stitches: Great Stitch Patterns" (Murdoch Books) - except the "heel stitch" which I found on www.thedietdiary.com/blog/lucia/525 - and the stitch names and page numbers can be seen in the 'notes' as you hover over the photos on their flickr page.