When Minty released the Tapestry Cowl, I knew I needed to knit it but I needed to find just the perfect yarn for it. Little did I know that the perfect yarn would land on my doorstep at the end of September.
This beautiful yarn is my Magnolia Society yarn club September offering. Its a [...]
When I finally landed on self-control as the 3rd and final dress, my advisers were shocking and unsure that a dress about control would be beautiful. They imagined a dress resembling a straight-jacket not allowing freedom at all, because being “self-control” is a negative idea for many.
I felt something would come of my research. [...]
Wednesday was a sad day. I didn’t have anything on the needles to show you, so instead I let you continue to look at Patience. Monday is the last completed dress and then I get to share with you the future of this project.
Pattern: Lillehammer by Jacquelynn Vance-Kuss [...]
Patience was in reality the first virtue I tackled since I felt patience took time. I had always hoped for, strove for, prayed for patience in my own life but never seemed to attain it. I was always angry and frustrated, but not outwardly showing these emotions to the point that I drove [...]
Eeep…. I hunkered down on 1-1-2009 to knit some instant gratification knits and 4 days later and 4 FOs later, I realize that I left ya’ll hanging with no FOs and me with a backlog of FOs to show. You saw hints of many of them on the mosaic on New Year’s Eve.
Details are on [...]
I get to celebrate the new year with my Flickr account. I’ve been locked out for the past 2 weeks and just convinced yahoo that the account was mine this afternoon after multiple detailed emails proving that I know what is in the accounts. In celebration, I renewed my pro account for 2 years.
This year [...]
Love is the first virtue in the list. I chose it simply because I thought it would be easy to represent. Its not necessarily the easiest word to find a definition of exactly what a virtue of love composes. Since most virtues deal with interpersonal relationships, we can eliminate a direct relationship to sexual love [...]
Just over 4 years I ago, I had presented my thesis and graduated from art school and 5 years ago, I was in the midst of deciphering what and how I was going to express this grand idea.
My thesis centered around the idea of the Fruit of the Spirit – these virtues that all people [...]
WIP Wednesday was missed because I was driving through the PNW snowstorm of 2008 to and from Seattle.
Pattern: Squiggle Hat by Chris Church Raveled Here
Yarn: Malabrigo Yarn Meino Worsted partial skein of Marine and Applewood
Needles: Knitpicks Harmony Interchangeables US 8 (5.0mm) & US 9 (5.5mm)
Mods: The pattern is one size which is pretty stretchy but [...]
Pattern: Chocolate Creme Square-Neck Top by Joan McGowan-Michael from Knitting Lingerie Style Raveled Here
Yarn: Knit Picks Comfy – 3 Skeins in Pomegranate & Nashua Handknits Cilantro – 1 skein in white
Needles: US 6 (4.0mm) & 7 (4.5mm) Knitpicks Harmony Interchangeable Needles
Mods: I moved the waist up higher and added one more bust increase before the [...]