tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-264062912011-07-28T15:17:22.960-04:00The Life Cycle of My Knitting...Rippit!Maryannnoreply@blogger.comBlogger151100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-26406291.post-28770155124858027522010-04-10T17:07:00.002-04:002010-04-10T18:01:41.050-04:00

I love learning new techniques.  Last night I was poking around the class list for Stitches South (after reading Rebecca Danger's post about shipping off some monsters to the show) and I came across something interesting - a class on Double-knitting tubes.  How awesome is that??  Sometimes I feel I-cord is the bane of my existence.  I hate sliding the stitches around all the time, and I don't

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Plans, plans, plans. I planned on posting on the 30th of March so it would be exactly 3 years from my last post.  So much for that idea.  So, here I am.  Finally.  What happened to me?  I have no idea.  I tend to be very cyclical in my hobbies, and knitting got put on a back burner for a loooong time.  I have knit some small projects (and a large one, which I will try to post a pic of soon), but

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As I may have told you, I joined the Trekking Along, which requires you to post your progress in June, July, and August. Well, here it is, the last day of June, and I haven't had a chance to go trekking anywhere! Ack!!!So I got creative (we won't call it cheating. nope. not cheating. definitely not.) and the boy-child and I went for a little walk in the woodsy area next to the building where my

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Sorry about all the crankiness last night. I am feeling lots better this morning. My darling hubby took care of the kiddos when they woke up (at 6 am) so I was able to sleep in to almost 8:00. How wonderful!

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Well, here I am. No real post, yet again. Are you guys bored out of your gourds yet?I got to the dentist around 10:10 (oops!) and they decided they wanted to clean my teeth while I was there. "How long will it take?" I ask. "About 40 minutes." "How long is the crown prep supposed to take?" "An hour and a half."So... 40 minutes plus an hour and a half... 2 hours and 10 minutes. "Okay."I left the

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I promised myself yesterday that I was going to post today about the package my Dye-O-Rama buddy sent me. Here it is, 9:17 pm, and, well..... maybe tomorrow?Wait... tomorrow I go to the dentist for crown-prep work. Oh, the joy. That starts at 10:00. Then at 2:00, I have to take the girl-child to TEACCH to help someone train on how to do testing (My daughter does very well testing, so she goes

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Well, here is the baby booga bag that I was making. I finished it pretty soon after the last time I posted-- I already had to give it its first shave before taking this picture. I am amazed at how much it softened up with the felting. I had a bit of a hard time knitting with the Kureyon, especially the i-cord, because it is so scratchy. If I told someone that now, after touching the finished bag,

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Has it been a whole month since I last blogged? Oops! Major Knitter warned me that blogging was time consuming (and fun), and yes, she's right. I got into procrastinating a little too much, and here I am. I have plenty of stuff to blog about, but I guess I need to set a time to do it. So what do you do? Do you have a set time/day of the week to blog? Do you blog a little at a time? Any

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Here is my baby booga bag after ripping it out (yes, the whole thing!) and starting from the outside of the second skein. The color progression looks a lot more natural, and I am quite pleased with how it looks. I am now knitting the I-cord. I will wait and see how much yarn I need for the I-cord before I bind of the top of the bag. As it is, it is a few rows short. I would rather the bag be

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I must apologize for the lack of knitting content thus far. Here is one of my many current knitting projects:A baby booga bag in Noro Kureyon colorway 170. I have heard a lot about Kureyon and it's little quirks of having knots in the middle of the skein joining two colors that are not, let's say, part of the natural color progression of the skein. Case in point. I started with the bottom of the

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In an effort to both use up some of their boundless energy and kill some time between dinnertime and bedtime, I have been taking the kiddies for a walk around the neighborhood the past few evenings. Little did I know, it was a really introspective experience. We have lived in our current neighborhood for nearly 5 years (moved in just before the girl-child was born) and, I am sorry to say, we have

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Yes, my desk is always this messy. 50 points if you can locate the following: batteries, purple yarn, multiple packages of Kool-Aid, oversized crayons, ghosty votive candle holder, and package of size 10 1/2 dpn's.

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Yes, I admit it. I love frogs. So when I found these cute little guys on the wall by my front porch, I thought I would share. These are three separate frogs. I promise I didn't just chase one around to make it look like there were more than one. I've never seen three at once before, but whenever I see my little froggy friend, it always makes me smile.

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***Disclaimer: I wrote most of this post yesterday, Wednesday 26th of April. I was too lazy to finish and post it. There will be (more) pics. I promise.I resumed dyeing the next day after, well, whatever the last day I dyed was. Yesterday? Did I dye yesterday? I honestly can't remember. Sad, huh?It seems that as my yarn dried, things changed. The kool-aid yarn dried beautifully. The

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After months of hemming and hawing, here I am, starting a blog. I am not really sure how a first post is supposed to go, so I'll just jump in, if that's ok with y'all.In preparation for the Dye-O-Rama swap, I thought I would overdye some yarn that I had dyed before and didn't like. I did some new things today, kool-aid dyeing in the microve, and dyeing with Wilton's Icing Color. Ok, well, I

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