But aren’t these guys just the cutest? I have spent the last week doing a lot of pattern repetitions, and I am still on the long slog of making my second sock with no real progress (other than the sock is a little longer). The one new thing I have to show is that I […]
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We’re going to need a bigger bag (It’s Shark Week!)
As we are in shark week month (coming up on the tail end of shark week itself) I decided to make some crochet sharks. At first I went looking for some free shark patterns, and I even found some really cute ones (links at the end of the post) but none of them were what […]
Mid-month Middle Earth 10
I live! We have family coming in to stay for a month so we have been cleaning and organizing the house for the last two weeks. Now that things are as clean as they are going to get, I have some more free time. Most of the free time not spent cleaning was spent working […]
Sock it to Me: The Heel Turns
May was one of the rare months where we got five weeks instead of four, so here’s a quick update on the socks I have been making: I have passed the heel! I would be even further along, however I made a mess when first knitting the back of the heal. I am going to […]
Mid-month Middle Earth 8
The second color went much quicker than the first. Despite my fears, I was able to tell the very dark blue from the black thread, so long as I had decent lighting. I’ve now made my way onto my third color, a dark green. I’m hopeful I’ll get more done soon, especially now that the […]
Sock It To Me
I have decided to finally try to knit socks. I will credit this to the wonderful little book I got from the public library which provided me with a simple, basic sock pattern. If you are interested it is called The knitter’s handy book of patterns: basic designs in multiple sizes & gauges by Ann […]
Mid-month Middle Earth 7
I have finally moved onto the second color! Unfortunately, since I was picking the color based on the symbol on the pattern sheet I am currently adding black to the very dark blue already on the pattern. Because of that it may be harder to tell where the new color is compared to the old […]
On a Wing and a Prayer Shawl: The Finished Project
I finished the shawl! That was probably obvious by the title of the post but I am very excited with how the shawl turned out. The colors look just as good as I had hoped and the edging turned out much nicer on the final project than I thought it would as I was working […]
Di-Di-Digimon, Digitama!
I only had a partial picture of this piece in my Fandom Fun post but I finally finished it and wanted to show it off a little! Pictured below are nine crests from the old anime Digimon Adventure (plus the crest of kindness from Adventure 02) and their corresponding digi-egg (or digitama, as the show […]
Pre-planning for Ponchos
I attend a knitters group once a week when I have the time, and every once in a while one of the older knitters will bring in something from their stash (pattern books, yarn, needles) that they no longer need or use. Recently one of the items they were giving away was a book on […]