Category Archives: Craft’n

Crafting includes knitting, crochet, cross stitch, or anything to do with string.
Really I should just call it string
or yarn…

what to post when you haven’t been

Knitting, Miscellany, Ranting, Why am I doing this again?

So it’s almost two… yep two months since I last posted, and the longer I put it off, the harder it is to just sit down and write something. To write anything. Anything at all.

Part of the truth is I haven’t wanted to be any where near my computers. I haven’t been coding, I haven’t been designing or drawing, or painting… just knitting.
Remember the booties, the ambitious goal me and the fiancé had? Well I worked and worked on them, when I really wanted to be lace knitting, or working on my entrelac cowl or on the custom bike mittens someone asked for. But I spent november and december knitting booties. And that fine, but I like my knitting to engage me, and that why I do complicated projects. Unless I’m bored or tired or burnt out or all of those things and then I knit a rib stitch scarf or maybe even a bootie. Continue reading →

un-spun love

Craft'n, Knitting, Stashing

I was reading through a book I got from the library last week called Icelandic Handknits, by Hélène Magnússon.

Icelandic Handknits: 25 Heirloom Techniques and Projects

And so far I like it, though now I want more on this the Icelandic Lace. I’ve been enjoying anything with the history of knitting / fiber arts in it. Somehow the idea of knitting something that was knit 100 years ago just appeals to me. But as I don’t have a pressing need for shoe liners for my fish skin shoes, not always very useful.

While reading through the book I read about unspun Lopi yarn, (just like the stuff I found in Grand Marais from Canada). So I looked it up and now I want it, I want it soooooooooooo bad.

What am I going to use it for you ask?

………

That’s a good question.

But I still want it .

Some Un-spun Icelandic wool

 

So very very much.

forever a work in progress #1

Craft'n, Knitting, , ,

So here goes,
My first F-WIP. FaWIP #1

It’s the Pirate’s Cutie – Sweater from and oooollllldddd issue of Vogue’s Knit.1 from winter 2006/07.

Pirates_Cutie_Jolly_Roger_Baby_Set_Knit1_winter_2006_2007_medium vogueknit1winter0607_small

I started this adorable little sweater ( only my 2nd and last attempt and at a sweater since I started knitting ) at least five years ago, probably closer to 6. It was before I started school, part of the reason I never finished is because homework turned out taking a huge chunk out of my knitting time.
The second reason is sad, I think about it every time I look at the thing. I had a really bazar and sudden falling out with the friend who was having the baby that it would go to. So I even if I had finished it I probably wouldn’t have been able to give it to her. And now the little boy is starting kindergarten, and it wouldn’t really fit now.

I want to turn this bad memory around and find and other cute little person to give this to. I want to look at this sweater and smile again. But first I have to knit the 2nd sleeve.
Yep thats right, beside the collar thats all that needs to be done.

ONE. SLEEVE.

At this rate I’m guessing another 2 years at least.