A stitch in time
Sunday, April 3, 2016
Dragons in the egg
I spent some time photographing dragons with the help of my dragon wrangler yesterday. I also spent time with some yarn to work on dragons that have yet to leave the egg. I have the start of 7 dragons that should be coming out of the egg sometime in the future. Gracie, George, Nyad, Gaia and Charley had their pictures taken yesterday.
Wednesday, December 25, 2013
A Christmas Post
My Christmas has had some ups and downs, it has been mostly good. So let's review my list of what to do for Christmas
Now for my other list
What projects do you plan on doing in the New Year?
- Captain America's Shield (Pattern modified with a star pattern from a previous post)
- Scarf for cousin (not going to say what pattern just in case she looks at this)
- Secret project for an Amazing Person (current pattern no long found online)
- project based on #3 for a different person
- Sock Monkey Puppets (if I can get to it) for nieces or nephews
- UFO for someone (This might take too much time, but it will get finished)
Now for my other list
- Icy Snowflake Throw
- Kaleidoscope Throw I've been working on this one, I've got 22 parts completed through row 5, and several more have the first two rows
- Stone Mountain Throw
- Adult's Royal Crown
- Minion Top hat made with help from Halloween Top Hat pattern and measurements
- That UFO(Unfinished Object) from my top list, Yay isn't that wonderful?
What projects do you plan on doing in the New Year?
Monday, December 2, 2013
Six Projects for Christmas
I have a list of things for people in my life that I have the goal of getting done for Christmas, which I realize is only 3 weeks away. I also have an additional week and a half for when some of these need to be done by for a Family Christmas Gathering.
My list so far is looking like this:
How is your Christmas to-Do list looking? Is it anywhere as bad as mine?
My list so far is looking like this:
- Captain America's Shield (Pattern modified with a star pattern from a previous post)
- Scarf for cousin (not going to say what pattern just in case she looks at this)
- Secret project for an Amazing Person (current pattern no long found online)
- project based on #3 for a different person
- Sock Monkey Puppets (if I can get to it) for nieces or nephews
- UFO for someone (This might take too much time, but it will get finished)
- Icy Snowflake Throw
- Kaleidoscope Throw
- Stone Mountain Throw
- Adult's Royal Crown
- Minion Top hat made with help from Halloween Top Hat pattern and measurements
How is your Christmas to-Do list looking? Is it anywhere as bad as mine?
Monday, October 21, 2013
Five little projects or a few more
Life has been a bit crazy and I have missed a few months, but in that time I have done a few projects, so in no particular order I shall cover them with pictures, and patterns if I can remember where I got them from.
Minion Hat, pattern by Jennifer Dougherty
(formerly available from Craftsy.com)
Romantic Lacy Shawl from RedHeart.com
I didn't have enough yarn to do more with it, so I ended it and added a length to tie it to the other side when being worn.
Chromium Star Pattern from A Whole Load of Craft
This is the finished product from the pattern that I mentioned in post one. I was happy to finish this, and the pictures might not do it justice.
I have also worked on a few others...
Minion Hat, pattern by Jennifer Dougherty
(formerly available from Craftsy.com)
I didn't have enough yarn to do more with it, so I ended it and added a length to tie it to the other side when being worn.
Chromium Star Pattern from A Whole Load of Craft
This is the finished product from the pattern that I mentioned in post one. I was happy to finish this, and the pictures might not do it justice.
I have also worked on a few others...
Poinsettia by June Gilbank from Planet June
I liked the design for a leaf for a hair clip that I wanted to make.
I liked the design for a leaf for a hair clip that I wanted to make.
Roll-Up Pencil Case from RedHeart
One-Ball-of-Yarn Flower Headband by Fatima Lasay
I liked the base but not the actual "flower so I grabbed a flower form another pattern.
I used Flower Accent by Mimi Alelis for my flower and a nice button to attach it in place.
I used Flower Accent by Mimi Alelis for my flower and a nice button to attach it in place.
In conclusion I actually can do quite a bit of small projects, I still need to finish my dragon, but I've been making sure that I can get everything I need to get done by Christmas done. I hope you enjoyed my show and tell.
Thursday, July 11, 2013
four patterns churning
Okay, so it's been a little while, I meant to have some witty blog that might have started something like this:
How does my weird green cat/dragon look? should I abandon the idea of wings?
and for other afghans I have done, I thought that I would get pictures of them, so here are a few
This was my first ripple afghan, which I made for my mother who already had the yarn.
Monday
But instead last week I had some fun, and some not so fun stuff. I took out some stuff a few times because I messed up, and then on Tuesday night this week, I finished my first skein and tied on my second. I'm not sure if 3 skeins will be enough, but with some of the stuff going on I was looking at other patterns, and so I saw this cute one where it had cats, but the problem is that I started working on it in green, Who has a green cat? so I've been toying with turning it into a dragon, and so this is how far I've gotten.Almost done with row 17 when I find that I missed a stitch on row 16, I only did half a stitch set. It is sad when you need to frog two rows, but lucky me, I at least got to keep the first popcorn stitch on row 16.Periodicals of the weekEntertainment weekly (2013 s1)American journal of health-system pharmacy (2012)(2011)Charisma & Christian life (2012/13)Modern language quarterly (2013 s1)Nature
Publishers Weekly (2013 q2)
How does my weird green cat/dragon look? should I abandon the idea of wings?
and for other afghans I have done, I thought that I would get pictures of them, so here are a few
Saturday, June 29, 2013
third time's a repeat
A lot has happened in the past week, a death, a funeral, and quite a bit of stitching. in the pattern after row 6 you repeat rows 3-6 again until you get the desired length. I've repeated my sets of rows twice and it looks like the picture, of course it is a bit hard to see everything since mine is about 57 inches wide.
A closer look at the cable panel:
A closer look at the Lattice Panel:
At the end of the week the lessons that are learned are never fight with sibling at the funeral of a parent, some things are best learned by proxy, and that sometimes it's good to challenge yourself to do a new set of stitches, even if it means you spend time working on something smaller for those few stitches, but it's good to learn how to make something pretty.
Are you working on something that might be fun?
Tuesday, June 18, 2013
Row two
As I work with this pattern I have to learn a few new stitches and so I'm working on a practice of the cable panel, and for my second row I've already taken it out to the start because I realized that I didn't get the stitches right, mainly because of my understanding or lack of reading the second part.
(bpdc in next 2 sts, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next st, PC{popcorn!} in next dc,
bpdc in next stitch, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next 2 sts, FC6FT over next 6 stiches, bpdc in next 2 sts, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next stitch, PC{popcorn!} in next dc, bpdc in next stitch, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next 2 sts)
For something I found out about recently, check out this, I rate it PG for the implied violence at the end.
I have also worked a bit on the lattice panel, which I'm also wondering occasionally if I'm in over my head. I got into row four during lunch today on my practice piece.
I might get an image of what I have worked up of the real thing when I'm finished with the second row from end to end, Which is always a challenge to get it correct from end to end.
(bpdc in next 2 sts, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next st, PC{popcorn!} in next dc,
bpdc in next stitch, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next 2 sts, FC6FT over next 6 stiches, bpdc in next 2 sts, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next stitch, PC{popcorn!} in next dc, bpdc in next stitch, FC2FT over next two sts, bpdc in next 2 sts)
For something I found out about recently, check out this, I rate it PG for the implied violence at the end.
I have also worked a bit on the lattice panel, which I'm also wondering occasionally if I'm in over my head. I got into row four during lunch today on my practice piece.
I might get an image of what I have worked up of the real thing when I'm finished with the second row from end to end, Which is always a challenge to get it correct from end to end.
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