The NeverEnding Stash
Posted by limedragon | Filed under accessories, knitting, stranded or fair isle
(No updates yet for my dad and cousin. Thanks everyone!!)
Tags: andean cap, black, brown-sheep, charlene-schurch, colorwork, gray, hat, intarsia, lambs pride, red, stranded
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
Socks, ghosts, and links, oh my!
Posted by limedragon | Filed under general, knitting, socks, yarn stash
For a while, I was working on my current SOS08 pair, Big Basin (from Six Sox Knitalong). This is the first time I’m using a wool-tencel blend
Tags: big basin, black, bunny pullover, cashsoft, gift, harmony, knittingdragon, mom, orange, purple, randall's ghost, reunion, roo designs, rowan, six-sox-kal, socks, tencelicious, white, yarn diet, yarn stash
Bigfoot in China
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, socks
These socks are big.
Tags: an american in china, black, cats, dk, gift, gray, gryphon perkins, jester, knitty, munchkin, regia, slippers, socks, sos08, white
Goldilocks
Posted by limedragon | Filed under accessories, knitting
When I started putting away the few colors of left over Wool-Ease I had pulled from stash for the Gansey Watch Cap, it occurred to me that I could make my own marled yarn by mixing and holding different color strands together as one yarn.
But what to make? Hats! I needed to add a [...]
Tags: black, blue, challenge, charity, cornerstone, free, gift, gray, hats, lion-brand, mile, patterns, prize, red, rory, socks-in-the-cities, stash, stashdown, wool-ease, yarnery
Vested
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, sweaters
A few days before Christmas, I finished the main knitting of the big gray blob. It was so big I had to be very careful when picking it up and carrying it, lest it get stretched out. For extra peace of mind, I waited to take a pre-felting picture until I had basted together most [...]
Tags: beverly galeskas, black, felted vest, felting, fiber trends, gift, gray, mom, patons
Aftershock
Posted by limedragon | Filed under knitting, yarn stash
Congratulations to trek who left comment number 2,000! She chose the Amazon.com gift certificate. Many, many thanks to all of you for making blogging fun!
Ahem. I’m afraid I haven’t completely caught up with all the yarn I’ve acquired lately. Here’s a few more things…
The new Blue Moon Fiber Arts’ Raven Series was too much [...]
Tags: adrienne vittadini, black, blue-moon-fiber-arts, green, purple, raven, red, socks-that-rock, trina, twisted, yarn stash
Gauging Felt
Posted by limedragon | Filed under felting, knitting
Before I began work on the two big gifts due later this year, I realized I needed to knit and then full at least one swatch. Normally I don’t worry about gauge and size for felted items since the fulling process controls the end result. These two gifts I’m making are a bit more complicated [...]
Tags: bev galeskas, black, christmas, classic merino wool, felted knits, felting, gift, gray, green, patons
Hat Hat
Posted by limedragon | Filed under accessories, kid stuff, knitting
I’ve been knitting a lot with stash lately. It’s apparent from looking at past projects and my stash that, albeit my love for color, I do have a fondness for black and gray. These are my favored neutral colors—when I can’t make a color decision (”Oooh, purple! Oooh, red!”), I usually end up with [...]
Tags: berkshire, black, brown-sheep, grey, hats, lambs pride, lambs pride hat, seamans cap, valley yarns
