Well, here's the project that was over a year in the making. I finally finished my Shipwreck shawl. I followed the instructions right down to using the same yarn and the same dyeing technique. I obviously knit looser than the pattern creator though, since I ran out of yarn a few rounds short of the pattern and had to bind-off with a different ( Read more... )

ZOMG! I'm flipping through the recent Knit Picks catalog, and one of their new limited edition sock yarn colorways is Time Traveler!!! I'm having a serious squee! attack. Check out this description of the colorway: "Wear these brightly striped socks whether you are going to the office or traveling through time and space. Time Traveler is a ( Read more... )

First, for you Battlestar Galactica knitters out there, someone made a sock pattern for you! Behold, the pattern Viper Pilots. I don't even watch the show and these socks look pretty neat.

Second, and this is far geekier as far as I'm concerned, there is a YouTube video called Pardon me (I Didn't Knit That for You). Those Mason-Dixon Knitting ( Read more... )

I finished another pair of socks during the downtime of my class. Footie socks for my sister, colors are her request. I managed to knit both socks with only one ball of yarn, that little tangle of string is all that's left! Conserve yarn, knit footie socks!


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I have been working on a lovely cardigan that I'm hoping will fit well enough for work-wear. It's official name is Guinevere, but I have nicknamed it Third-time's-the-charm, on account of that's how many times I reknit it before I figured out what the author meant by her vague lace decreases. It is a testiment to how much I want this finished ( Read more... )

This is a test of Livejournal's built-in image hosting, called the Scrapbook. So far I am not impressed, but I haven't installed an SSH client on my laptop so I can't upload pictures to our webserver. Lazy beggers can't be choosers, eh?

So anyways, to the content! Here is my latest knitting project, Golden Gate Bridge socks for elgecko!

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A quick update from the world of knitting: Here we have a very sunny dishcloth for a belated housewarming gift.

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So here's some pictures of my latest sock knitting project, the Q-bert socks! You can get the pattern to make your very own at the Knitty website. They were a lot of fun to knit, but I'm quite glad that they're finally finished. Knee-socks are not a project to be undertaken lightly!

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As you can see, Addi approves of the new Q-Bert socks:


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