Hey there! Welcome to anyone who is a first time visitor that hopped by from yesterday’s post over at Fifty Shades of 4 Ply! Also, welcome back to my regular gang! It’s been a while, right? Well, I’m still kicking and have been knitting my butt off lately. I have a lot of projects to update you all on, plus …
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Remember back in 2012 when I completed my goal to learn to knit socks? Well, I have a confession to make. At that time I learned to knit SOCK… singular. Yup, I immediately got a case of single sock syndrome (where you finish the first sock but never get around to finishing the second. It’s an illness among sock knitters). …
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I have seen Lopi patterns and yarns around quite a lot and been curious about them, but have never worked with them myself. I’d seen the yarn in different shops and thought it came in such great colors, but every time I touched it it put me off. So hard and scratchy! Having been used to softer yarns, the Lopi didn’t …
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Yarn: Scheepjes Stone Washed XL (850 – Garnet) Pattern: Sylvi (Ravelry) I’m so excited about this project, even though I keep putting it off as more urgent things come up. I first added the pattern to my favorites on Ravelry last year and filed it away in my brain under “pipedream”… meaning, no way I’d ever be able to knit something that …
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A few weeks ago I was invited to visit the Scheepjeswol headquarters for a Bloggers Day event they were having this past Friday and I have been counting the days (hours, minutes…) ever since. They had arranged a day for a few of us crocheters and knitters to get together, learn a bit more about the company and tour the …
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Remember before I left for holiday I posted about my Autumn Dreambird Shawl and how I had become totally infatuated with the yarn? Well, not a lot has changed, I’m still head over heels in love with this project. I tried to work on it as much as I could while we were in France, but with places and people …
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Have you ever had a project in mind but were just waiting for the perfect yarn to jump out at you? If so, then you will understand my recent experience with the Dreambird pattern on Ravelry. I first saw it ages ago but just wasn’t sure what colors I wanted to do it in, what yarn was going to work …
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Now that Christmas is behind us and all surprises are out of the bag I can start discussing some crafts again. I haven’t done that in a while for a few reasons. Firstly, because I didn’t do a single thing crafty for about a year. I picked it up last year around x-mas and then wasn’t arsed with it again …
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In an effort to gain self confidence and deal with body image issues still remaining after my weight loss, I decided to take part in a 365 project focusing on self portraits. My hopes are that after a year of taking a photo of myself ever day, that I will stop hating photos of myself, stop picking apart the things …
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A while back I saw something a friend posted on Pinterest that I really liked, so I repinned so that I would remember to make it at some point. What a cool idea! Using an old suitcase to make a bed for one of your pets. When I saw it, I knew immediately what I was going to use. This …
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I DID IT! After years of saying how much I want to learn to knit socks I finally sat down and started trying to learn how. With the help of my friend Staci from VeryPink.com I have followed her wonderful tutorials for learning to knit socks! You may (ok probably not but whatever) remember Staci from years ago when I …
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