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I decided to knit my husband a pair of socks for Christmas. I'm following a really interesting pattern I found in "Andean Folk Knits," a beautiful book I checked out of the library.
I splurged a little on yarn: I'm using Cascade Dolce, which is dreamy-dreamy-dreamy. He's worth it :)
Socks look so neat in progress!! Here, I've just finished turning the heel.
This is both my first attempt at socks AND my first attempt at colorwork. So please forgive the lumpy cuff. Speaking of the cuff, it's knitted with a hem that's stitched down later. A row of eyelet stitch between the hem and cuff creates a picot edge. Nifty!
Work in progress for a new Clojure t-shirt design.
The quote is from Rich's "Clojure in Depth" tutorial at the 2009 International Lisp Conference.
I haven't decided if I'm going to bother with a design on the front -- there's no sense putting a zodiac sign as suggested in the Knitty pattern because it's very up in the air whether this baby will be a Scorpio or a Sagittarius.
I'm plugging away on it - it's my lunchtime knitting, for the most part. Lorna's Laces Shepherd Sock in Ravenswood and Gold Hill.
Getting ready to sculpt a face!
Blogged:
www.nonesuchgarden.com/index/2012/07/the-birth-of-a-sprou...
I'm lucky that my roommate doesn't mind that I often take up our kitchen table and use it as my workspace. I have a desk, but no desk chair. And our kitchen is kind of perfect.
..And yes, those ARE two keys missing from my keyboard. My fault.
Damn that wood trim looks even WORSE now. Glad we decided to stain the floors instead of going with natural!
I'm trying to keep in mind all of the companion planting rules. Any suggestions are welcome. The plot is about 8 x 15 feet - perhaps a bit wider... and longer... because I keep enlarging it little by little each year.
When I was making George last week I took a few photos of him while he was still unfinished. Here's a glimpse of my pattern-writing style, and my awesome SpongeBob pencil.
but we're approaching the home stretch. Notice the difference in color between this image which is an older Adobe installation that I've been using for a while, and the previous image which is a new installation. Clearly I have some infernally inscrutable buried color workspace/calibration issues to hunt down.
Hace tiempo que vi el tutorial de Page McNall por flickr, y me apetecía probarlo. Por ahora las piezas estan sin acabar, pero es una forma fácil y sencilla para hacer cuentas huecas.
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The apple tree that stands outside my bedroom window is my favorite drying
rack for yarn in the summer. In the winter it serves as home for many of my
bird feeders and the twiggy canopy serves the tiny birds well as they dart
around with the seeds I fill the feeders with. In the spring there is a
beautiful halo of pink bloom and in the summer a shady area for cats to play
and birds to sing. The fall's fruit is small and bitter, but the glories of
the spring more than make up for it. As I hung up skeins of Shetland/mohair
handspun, I saw that the buds are bursting into leaves.
When I was a child here there were several apple trees around the farm, old
standards that even then were gnarled with age and untended. A small
orchard once stood above the house with a double row of trees that bore
cooking apples". I never knew the varieties. Another in the yard stood
right outside the porch door; when I was very small I remember playing on
the porch in an old corner cupboard there and looking out at the spring
bloom of the tree.
My favorite tree when I was a child was a towering giant that bore yellow
apples with a sweet flavor. My grandfather called it Yellow Delicious,
although the flavor of those long ago apples was nothing like today's
variety. The apples were small: no one really looked after the trees, and
thin-skinned. We picked them off the tree to eat when they were ripe but
you had to be careful of worms!
I loved the tree because the trunk sloped up, then between two huge branches
was the perfect spot to sit and read beneath the shade of the leaves. I
spent hours in the summer there, reading my favorite books while cats and
kittens romped around the tree. One year I remember that a bird; I think it
was a robin, built a nest in a hollow below my reading place. When I came
home the tree was still standing, and greeted me my first year here with a
beautiful, soft pink bloom. The next winter it fell; finally brought down
by time and the elements. I still miss it!
The next step is to cover the front of the wood with a dry-stacked stone wall and the top with pebbles.
As you know, I like to keep myself busy with lots of art projects. So after deciding that my list of things-to-do wasn’t long enough, I decided to embark on a new project. Here is a sneak-peek. What’s it going to be? Don’t worry, everything will be revealed by the end of the week! :)
Thanks to everyone in the Photo Restoration and Colorization Pool who has offered advice on how best to tackle this project. It's coming along fine. This is absolutenly NOT finished yet, so think of it as a work in progress.
Pattern: Arm Sling, but Toni Carr (#5 Joan of Dark) from Knockdown Knits.
Needles: US 10.5. Coming out a bit big, might have to frog and go down to a 10.
Yarn: Paton Classic Wool, one skein each of Lemongrass and Aquarium.
My mom is having shoulder surgery in late July, and after flipping through this book determined that she required a cute sling cozy for the many weeks she'll be incapacitated and stuck with an ugly arm accessory.
(We have no idea how she hurt her shoulder; it was certainly nothing as badass as roller derby. The family surmises that it was a repetitive strain injury from drinking so much coffee.)