Craft List

I am almost half way done the second spat. I’m pretty sure it’s going faster because I actually know what I’m going to end up with. I had a knitting marathon today, I knitted through the televised Santa Clause parade, I put supper on, and went back to knitting. I felt like a cybernetic knitting [...]

Spats… again…

After almost a week of working on the first spat, all of the black work is done. The only thing left to do is sew on the button and decide whether I am going to knit an i-cord or crochet a lace for the back.
If I knit an i-cord, then I will want to do [...]

The Great Spatterdash Adventure

Yes, Melanie, this post is entirely dedicated to your spats. I am proud of my ingenuity and so I must gush at length. First, let me tell you that the pattern I was using (pattern from Arcane Stick Magic) which was meant for size 9-12 is much closer to a size 9 than a size 12. And [...]

Enviro-Knitting

Yes, the yarns have been around for ages, you’re grandma used to use them, Acrylics, Polyesters, and Cottons. Well there is a whole new batch of vegan fibers to choose from, and the old ones we remember have been totally revamped. We have a choice of corn fiber (pictured,) soy, and bamboo silk. We can go back to [...]

Hooray for Giftmas!

I have spent the entire day today listening to Christmas carols and knitting. I had fun with it. I started Chris’s scarf three times before I came up with a pattern that was neither too big or too small.
The first attempt was done with worsted weight on size 8 needles… it was floppy and huge. [...]

Crocheting and Writing will be the death of me.

I have started this sentence about twelve times now, I’m just not sure where to start. Obviously there is break-neck novelling going on in our household, and there is also a good amount of crocheting that has started to pile up, and I decided that I should change up my blog a smidgen. Since this [...]

Kristeena’s Christmas Scarf

I have been working on Kristeena’s Christmas present for a few days now, and it’s coming along great. I decided that using different textures was the way to go with this scarf, it was in essence an experiment to see if I could actually pair worsted weight or dk yarn with bulky, novelty yarn. It’s [...]

1 and a half days to go!

I don’t really want to sit down and do the math, because in reality it is a much more complicated fraction than a half. It’s almost NaNoWriMo, and I think I am fairly prepared, easy to cook and/or slow cooker delicacies abound, and the house is almost entirely clean and ready for an entire month [...]

The 1st scarf of the season!

I finished it! The scarf that I have been working on for 5 days (pattern) is finished, and it looks amazing! I was worried about the warmth factor, but the width of the scarf makes it very warm and plush.
Here are the pictures (sorry, I don’t have a model to show it off in all [...]

Memory is fickle…

I need to write this pattern somewhere so that I don’t forget it, and I was going to post it here when I was finished, so I figured I would kill 2 birds with 1 stone and I’ll post a picture when it’s done. It’s a really simple pattern, but it has a lot of [...]