Probably shouldn't have gone to knitting last night, since I ended up with a huge snarled mess of yarn on the needle, spent ten minutes trying to either get it to behave or failing that, to get if off the needle -- and then when I looked at it off the needle it was something like SEVEN FEET LONG ( Read more... )

is anybody else doing / planning to do Annis from Knitty? I mean, I think the nupps will end me but I have a couple of balls of Malabrigo Lace kicking around and it's supposed to be a fairly fast knit. Also I have an Addi Lace needle and when you're purling like, seven together ( Read more... )

dear work ( Read more... )

no tail yet but here via Meg's Crappy Phone Camera:


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I almost had to punch a coworker in the face today, because she wanted to know what I was knitting.

A cat, I said.

For yourself? she said, doubtfully.

Yes, I said. There may have been tooth grinding, but what the hell you dudes, I like stuffed animals and I'm not going to give a kid a wool object to barf on ( Read more... )

interested parties:


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So today after work I wanted to get a half-price frappachino at Evilbux while they're doing the half-price thing, and Pioneer Square's line was strictly incredible, so I oozed over to the Governor Hotel one and stopped by Knit-Purl to ask a stupid question about the Spock Cat. After Sandy answered my stupid question (the directions have you turning ( Read more... )

dear fic,
please stop growing, you know how I feel about jokes that end up being five thousand words long.
no love,
meg

*glowers at file*

Went to knit night, started the Spock Cat! I know I've mentioned it before, but basically I'm taking the Greta The Captivating Cat pattern by DangerKnits, knitting it in a sort of light green citronish color, ( Read more... )

I had to compromise my ~*~artistic integrity~*~ because --

well okay if you're here because you're waiting patiently for me to write Kirk and Spock porno, scroll on down, BUT long story short, I promised Dawn I'd do a knitted thing for the Kumori-con auction, and I decided to do a Dumpling bag like this one I did a couple of years ago:


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I'm eating pad thai and writing fic. This is a good thing ( Read more... )