Now that Christmas is over and I get back to obsessively knitting I’m back to work whittling down this pile. We have (in blue, across the top) Lift and Separate, which is just lacking the bands on the sides and neck of the sweater. On bottom, from left to right, Calorimetry in some handspun, a [...]
Archive for December, 2006
It feels like it’s been a while, but I have a couple quickie FOs to show off today. First up is this beautiful little beaded knit wire bracelet that I whipped up Friday night. It’s 28 gauge metal craft wire and Czech glass beads that knit on size 8US needles. I just cast on five [...]
This was a busy, busy weekend, hence no pictures. I shopped, I baked, we got a new tree, dug the old silver tree out of the attic and decorated both, baked some more, shopped some more, knit, went to a basketball game, made a bracelet, baked some more.
Crazy, but I did get some knitting done. [...]
Christmas Decorating
Posted in Personal on Dec 16th, 2006
Tonight my mom and I bought lots of shiny new ornaments, garlands, and bows for our great big new tree (new as only two years old and only used once). We got home and went to get the tree box out of the attic (we have to have fake trees, we’re all allergic to real [...]
To the Crap Store!
Posted in Other Crafty Things on Dec 14th, 2006
When I have money, I can’t seem to resist the pull of the crap store. So much stuff. So much sparkly, sparkly stuff. I walk in and stuff just jumps into my hands and money jumps out of my wallet.
After the other night’s uneventful trip when I got frustrated and left, I made out a [...]
