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Felted hat, that is. Who knew yarn could sound so dirty?
Here's my test swatch which I foolishly forgot to measure, and since my pattern has no gauge, I am assuming I'm getting it right (I'm going to check the gauge from the label since it's a pattern specific to touch me)
Here they are, Miss America.
They're a bit tight (I'm having a bad immune flare and everything is swollen) so I'm going to block them a bit. I tried to cast on for my purple touch me hat but I need a size 7 circ, I have a 5 and I need bigger.
leftie
rightie
And here is peel. I have 1 3/4 balls left. I steam blocked what I have (about 76" and I need another 2 balls, minimum, I think. Damn. It's in time-out, I am tired of the wear on my hands with the wool allergy and it's too big for my knitting bag now.
As you can see, I cut a template and drew lines on it for a loose A line skirt, a more tight but still slight A line, and then I drew straight lines as per the peel specs, just to see what it is "supposed" to look like.
well, headless... or bodyless, depending on which way you look at him.
Here is my fleece coat--the sleeves and hem didn't go the way I wanted so I need to re-do them. Sigh. But it's warm!
Dh's hat:
big sister dress for a friend (whose new baby is getting the 1st woobie)
dd's skating bag:
my hat
You kidding me?
Ok this program bites. It was free, but seriously? It's acting like it's Feb already... aha.... for some reason settings swapped back to "7 days" and I've been neglecting my bloggy. Poor bloggy.
I have no pictures, folks, because stupid me left my camera at my friend's house. You should email her and tell her that a) she doesn't need my camera because she's a very talented photographer and b) you want her to photograph your entire family. Every week. Because yes, she is that talented:
just moments ago
My children are there. Extra points if you know which they are. ;-P Actually, dh and I were up there too at one point, not sure if we still are.
So I am going to get my crappy ass camera back, and then I can take pictures of the ice skating bag I made dd, the woobie I just finished for another friend's baby, and the cute fleece skirt I made for his big sis (who pampered my vanity and has been bragging about me all over her new city)
Ooh, I just found a pic of woobie #1 (I'm on the second, whose eyebrows turned out a bit--er--well, it's a design feature, right? I am not picking 10,000 stitches off of fleece, dammit!)
Oh, I also crocheted dd a bun holder for ballet, but dh took her on Sat and was a dork and couldn't figure out how to make a bun and keep it on her head. Sigh.
I did manage to figure out the Bernina's embroidery--fun! I also discovered (HOW did I not notice before?) my Brother machine has a knitting thing (ball of yarn and 2 needles) but it is broken... I tried to re-embroider The Little Mermaid and her hair wound up on top of her face, and Flounder wound up on top of her hair. Then I tried Belle and she wound up with a log on top of her face. Stupid freakin machine...
It is so freakin cold here, I have got to finish these soon. BRR! Arctic blast, go home!
Where's the W in global warming? Oh yeah, the dubya probably did away with our share of it. Perhaps he sent it to Iraq? Idiot.
I had made my sis some for xmas and they were so pretty I wanted some--and so with the Michaels gift card my cousin got me (thanks cous!) I got two skeins with the nice neutral silver punctuated with dark purple. I know she'd approve, she was always a purple girl too. I have 2 balls of touch me to knit a hat with, and I want to get on to that. Dang it's cold!
Here's how much snow we got. Not much, but the streets are ice rinks, esp further east than we are. We are close to the Sound, so it doesn't get as cold here or quite as much snow...
Oh, and finally (but not least!) here is a pic of the skein of sea silk in colorway "capri" my sis got me for xmas, and the pattern. YUMM!!! I wish I could put scent-a-matic into your computers so you could smell the yummy sea smell and touch-a-matic so you could ingest the unbelievable softness...
My other yarn related gifts were At Knit's End, which my darling son got me. Can you call him darling if he's technically 6 inches taller than you (and growing?) And then my dad gave me some money which I spent on knitting and crochet books and SILK AND CASHMERE. It is unbelievable. No pics yet but I'll get one soon.
This is a Christopher Lowell design... foam cube footstool. I've moved this tapestry fabric two times. Isn't it cool though? :-D
I want to make me one now but sadly I don't have enough of the tapestry--so I think what I'll do is do the reverse pattern and fake that the whole underneath is the tapestry.
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 You're the perfect girl for most guys Pretty yet approachable. Beautiful yet real. |
and
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Your Life is Like |
 High Fidelity |
Here it is, maybe at the halfway point? Perhaps not quite--I have 3 balls left of the kureyon, plus I will need to get some black wool. I've decided to alter the instructions, put in an elastic waist rather than drawstring, and I will use double (or triple?) crochet to join the sections (with black wool, so it breaks up the discontinuous stripes). I think this will look cool, even cooler if I could lose 30 lbs... but if I do the elastic waist, I can probably make it an A line skirt and won't have to re-knit anything if I do get to lose those lbs.
Day 3 treadmill. Phew. Now, if I could stop the sweets...
In other news I got my mom's old Bernina 180 artista for xmas. Yay! I made a ruffled shrug from panne velvet (white) but don't have pics yet. The thing is, I didn't fit it right, since I made it to be a bedjacket and things aren't, um, where they belong when you aren't wearing undergarments. Rats. I may line the sleeves and just wear it out instead, it's cute!