The story of a little skein
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, shawls or stoles
(Quick note: My dad’s health has declined since his long illness a couple years ago. This past summer, he was accepted as a candidate for a heart transplant, and last week, he was admitted to the hospital and is now waiting for a new heart. My cousin up north is also in the hospital with [...]
Tags: blue, colinette, dad, forest canopy, gift, grandma, green, health, jitterbug, lace, purple, shawl, susan lawrence
Fair-ly Good
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting
Last week, on opening day, I popped over to the MN State Fair to check on my entries. The first one I found was the Ryan hat
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Tags: hat, logan river wrap, mn, ryan's hat, short-row, state-fair
Ravelympics 2008: FO #2
Posted by limedragon | Filed under general, knitting, socks
I was really suprprised at how quickly I was able to knit these. It took only 6 days (I took one day off to seam and finish the Loon sweater). Considering that these are my first ever pair of stranded colorwork socks, I’m very happy with them.
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Tags: anise, blue, colorwork, fairisle, green, knitwhits, pink, purple, ravelympics, shoes, socks, stranded, tan
Ravelympics 2008: FO #1
Posted by limedragon | Filed under kid stuff, knitting, sweaters
Whew, I finished my first project for the Ravelympics on Monday! :) I’m really happy with the results. It wasn’t a difficult pattern, but was time-consuming. With this, I earned medals in Sweater Sprint and Colorwork Cross-Country.
Tags: black, blue, child, colorwork, duplicate stitch, ewecanknit, gray, intarsia, kids, loon, medals, pullover, ravelympics, sweater, white, yellow
Ravelympics 2008: Days 1-7
Posted by limedragon | Filed under kid stuff, knitting, socks, stranded or fair isle, sweaters
(Many thanks for everyone’s kind comments about the bunny pullover. I’ve been so focused on my Olympic knitting that email, blog-reading, and the like have fallen by the wayside, sorry!)
The Ravelry is doing a fun knit/crochet/spin/dye/whatever-along during the 2008 Olympics, with over 5500 members participating. I signed up with two projects and two teams: The [...]
Tags: anise, bernat, black, blue, colorwork, ewecanknit, fairisle, green, intarsia, kid, knitwhits, loon, olympics, pink, purple, ravelympics, socks, stranded, sweater, tan, white, yellow
Bunny, bunny
Posted by limedragon | Filed under baby stuff, knitting, sweaters
I’m taking a break from Ravelympics 2008 (more about that later) to show you all my latest FO.
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Tags: baby, bunny, bunny pullover, child, colorwork, intarsia, progress, purple, rabbit, roo designs, sweater, tokens, white
Guess what I’ll be doing this weekend…
Posted by limedragon | Filed under baby stuff, knitting, socks, sweaters
Finishing up this cutie.
Tags: baby, blocking, bunny, cute, design, maroon, merope, pullover, purple, rabbit, ravelry, roo designs, sweater, white