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Happy New Year - and We Have a Winner! (or three)

Happy New Year to all of you!  Wishing you peace, tranquility, and everything you desire in 2007 - not to mention a bucket of Koigu to each and every one of you.   Without further ado, here are the winners of my Knitty contest!  Y’all did so well that I had to draw numbers to […]

Finished Object: BunnyLove Sweater

…also known as the Pinup Queen sweater in Stitch n Bitch. I made (and botched) this sweater years ago as my very first sweater attempt, so I thought I would reprise that and see if I could knit up a sweater I’d actually enjoy.
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Pattern: Pinup Queen Sweater by Annie Modesitt
Source: Stitch n’ Bitch (edited […]

finished objects: woven scarves

Who knew that weaving was (a) so gratifying or (b) so unbelievably fast? If fiber-lust is an addiction, now regard my loom as a crack dispenser - witness the evidence:

Two scarves, woven from Fleece Artist Kiss Curls laceweight mohair boucle. Both are feather-weight and gossamer thin (due in no small part to the fact that […]

Finished Object: Checkerboard Stole

Here’s the thing - when you start out with a yarn as nice as this, it’s hard to make something ugly. Not that I was trying. But I’m amazed at how nicely this came out. The stitch is Checkerboard Mesh from Barbara Walker’s Second Treasury of Knitting Patterns, the yarn Silk Rhapsody by Artyarns:

I highly […]

Finished Object: Wee Noro Change Purse

I normally wouldn’t devote a post to something this small, but I feel the need to evangelize this fabulously weird material. Meet Noro Daria:

It’s yarn, technically, but really I would call it cord - three very taut strands of stiff cotton completely wrapped in shiny, lustrous, space dyed rayon. I love this stuff. I used […]