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Archive for May, 2008

Francis Beret pattern – NEW!

Posted in Crafts, Fashion, Knitting, tagged , , , , , , , , , on May 30, 2008 | 1 Comment »

I finally got my hat pattern knitted, photographed, and on my website. The pattern is crazy simple and really easy to make so I hope you guys like it. It’s knit in the round in an easy lace st from the top down ending with a 2×2 rib.
It only takes one skein of Tilli Tomas [...]

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Crocheted Flowers – Nicky Epstein

Posted in Book Reviews, Crafts, tagged , , , on May 28, 2008 | 4 Comments »

Nicky Epstein’s Crocheted Flowers

Nicky Epstein’s Crocheted Flowers
Nicky’s book is very lovely. Not only are her crocheted flowers brilliantly designed and made, but the book itself is lovely. Its bright colors and sweet swirling motifs are enough to make even someone who doesn’t know how to crochet want to look at it.
The projects in this book [...]

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The alien/zombie heads

Posted in Knitting on May 21, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I bought two foam heads to pin my Fascinators to when I’m working on them. These heads look like aliens. They have strange eyes and the shape of them is like something out of Independence day. Sometimes when I work with them I’m expecting Will Smith to come out of nowhere and take them away [...]

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Submitions to mags

Posted in Knitting on May 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

Whew. I finally got my submission sent to Knitscene’s Winter ‘08/Spring ‘09 issue. So glad to get that out of the way. All I’ve been doing for the past week is sending a ton of submissions to magazines. I still have a few to go. I’m hanging on to my sanity by a very thin [...]

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Sock Trouble

Posted in Knitting, tagged , on May 13, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

My mom was working on knitting a sock (that I designed) this morning and was having more than a little difficulty in making it work (she is trying a new stitch). She was using some of her favorite expletives to express her frustration. I offered to help her and though she tried to explain what [...]

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Poetry and Cavs

Posted in Knitting, tagged , , , on May 5, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

I was just sitting here waiting for my little computer to load at an incredibly slow pace, and rolling a poem by Longfellow around in my head. My brother told it to me yesterday, and though I can’t remember it completely I think that it is very true and amazingly well written. Anyway, [...]

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