A Geek's Adventures in Knitting
Saturday, March 31, 2007

A finished piece of the Action & a new hobby?

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Okay bad joke, but I'm like, so funny.. The first completed piece of Action, from Rowan Denim People. It's interesting construction ...
Tuesday, March 27, 2007

Yup, winter definitely on its way!

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The dead giveaway? I'm wearing my first ever grown-up sized sweater. This is my own special variant on Skully , from Debbie Stoller'...
Thursday, March 22, 2007

Making progress on the Action jumper - Rowan Denim People

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38cm into the first of the two front pieces. I need to check the intended length on the recipient on the weekend, to work out how much it ne...
Sunday, March 18, 2007

My cool links of the day: Cut + Paste & Whip-up

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www.cutxpaste.com Lots of neat stuff. Which I found through this brilliant craft related feed: whipup.net
Thursday, March 15, 2007

New yarn arrives.. and a better photo of Diamond Stitch Top

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The Nashville denim arrived. And, a better photo of that Diamond Stitch Top (very slightly photoshopped - but only to hide the messy house t...
Tuesday, March 13, 2007

Raspy knitting.

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Well, Knitting Camp (and several taped episodes of Heroes) makes for excellent knitting progress. Below you can see that I'm up to the a...
Saturday, March 10, 2007

Warning: long, non-knitting related ramble/rant

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Well, it's happened. Not that I'd really noticed it was an issue before now, which shows how rarely I actually make use of their are...
Tuesday, March 06, 2007

One of the coolest Australian sites I've ever seen.

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And I've barely scratched the surface of it! http://www.powerhousemuseum.com/electronicswatchbook/ (Yes, I have lots of other stuff to p...
Friday, March 02, 2007

New project? But you just..

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Well, I finished the Diamond Stitch top, and so was knitting up a storm on Raspy. I have thus far decided on one thing. I will knit it 6 row...
Wednesday, February 28, 2007

Finished Object: Diamond Stitch Sweater, Vintage Knits, Sarah Dallas

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All done. This is the Diamond Stitch Sweater top, from Sarah Dallas' Vintage Knits book. I knitted it in Panda Regal 4 ply, rather than...
Sunday, February 25, 2007

Silk dyeing with Rit (aka Dyeing Mk II)

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So.. I heated the dye stock. After checking my Twisted Sisters Sock Workbook, I soaked the silk yarn. For hours. Apparently, silk takes long...
Sunday, February 18, 2007

KoolAid does NOT dye silk.

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Guess how I know. That was deep blue and dark grape prior to washing. Really. On the plus side, while I DID run out of yarn, the nice Clemen...
Tuesday, February 13, 2007

I can feel the home straight! Diamond Stitch Sweater.

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YAY ! I am approximately 5 rows from the sleeve cap shaping on the two sleeves (both being done at the same time) for the Diamond Stitch Swe...
Thursday, February 08, 2007

Got gauge! And Getting there.

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Two good news fronts knit-wise. But don't mention the house ;) Good news one. Swatch of Rowan denim, (for Raspy) despite everyone online...
Tuesday, February 06, 2007

Swatching for Rapsy-goodness

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Guess what came? Haven't quite finished swatching yet. Initial estimates put the tension about 21 st over 10cm, which is one more than t...
Saturday, February 03, 2007

New Rowan Siting!

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From the Rowan website: ...
Thursday, February 01, 2007

We have progress on the diamond stitch top!

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Hurrah! I actually split the front and back to make the arm scythes. Also, after counting stitches, I am 5 stitches short each on the front ...
Monday, January 29, 2007

Ramblings... and a squee!

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First all, I've just returned from my Monday night stitch n bitch. I have the coolest knitting group in the world!! Not for anything in ...
Sunday, January 28, 2007

Raspy web-links

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Yes, I'm so keen on starting Raspy, I'm reading about it all over. So, as a self-reference and collation of Raspy's online.. Br...

I finally got around to updating the links...

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Those of you who use a feed service such as bloglines will actually need to look at the site to see, but I've updated some of my links e...
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