One of the things I love about my town is that we've got a really strong urban art community. Case in point, Knitta, Please, which started here (and happens to be name-checked in the latest Interweave Knits). So yesterday the munchkin and I were walking the neighbor's dog and what should we see not three houses down from ours?

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I saw this message from a yarn store in Australia posted on another blog and wanted to pass it on to my knitter friends:

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Hope everyone had a wonderful Christmas, Hanukkah, Boxing Day and any other holidays you may celebrate ( Read more... )

Here follows my recap of the Best Trip to L.A. Ever. Featuring famous knitting stores, cake, dead bodies, and Brian Baumgartner (times two!).

austin360 and I arrived at LAX Thursday afternoon, found mikijean and checked into our hotel. Then we spent a delightful evening with tlbelle, bgirlla, and ja_is_my_muse, full of catching up, knitting and dinner at Versailles (mmmmCubanfood ( Read more... )

While I've been not updating the few couple of weeks, I've been doing a lot of reading (I've re-read half of the collected works of Jane Austen thus far) and a lot of knitting. And I finally got it together enough to take some pictures and upload them.

( Knitting! )

Taggers strike Montrose with knitted graffiti

Their movement had started small, with a knitted cover on the door handle of a Montrose boutique, then a cover for the pole of a nearby stop sign at the corner of Dunlavy and Hawthorne. Reaction to the pieces was immediate and positive. The two founders took graffiti names, AKrylik and PolyCotN, and ( Read more... )

I've got a question for all you knitters on my flist. In the interest of combining my two favorite pastimes--knitting and fandom--I want to make the adorable knit hat that Veronica Mars wore in "One Angry Veronica."

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It's done and I did it!

( The sweetest hat ever )

I finally got around to taking pictures of some of my recently finished knitting projects to post. I made the munchkin model for me because all of my hats look about a thousand times cuter on her than they do on me, what with her being so damn cute and all.

Here are the wristbands I made for myself and the munchkin:

( They had stars upon thars! )