Today I got to attend a talk by William Foege, “Bill” as we were told to call him, at my university. If you do not know who he is check out the wikipedia article on him. It was a really inspiring talk, he seemed really personable, not at all like Richard Dawkins. Don’t get me … Continue reading »
I covered one of my smaller walls in my room with all of the maps from the places I traveled to this summer. Some craft paint and an inspirational quote later I got this! It really adds great color and warmness to the space.
Hello beautiful blog readers! I am coming to you, yet again, with a new headband pattern! This one did not turn out as good as I would have liked, I probably should’ve tested the pattern as a swatch first, but I made it up as I went. So here is my first attempt: I … Continue reading »
I’ve witnessed some quite amazing crochet in Italy. Things I would love to be able to make and do. Crochet still bewilders me and I am barely able to do a basic stitch. Physically I understand the idea of how the fabric is made, with one continuous loop instead of many (as in knitting). I … Continue reading »
But I couldn’t help myself. I knit this last night as I caught up on some American television (clearly taken advantage of my last few days in Italy). This is an extremely easy pattern, and my first on circular needles woo! Get ready for some webcam fashion shoot! I’ll try and take high quality photos … Continue reading »
This still has a lot of finishing details to fix, the biggest of which is that the crochet border was too tight around the edges of the bum area so it fits strangely. I’ll need to undo/redo that part of it, and possibly the whole bottom so I can make it looser so it can … Continue reading »
I’m currently knitting and designing a bathing suit. The middle middriff part is going to be lace. This is the most unique piece I have tried to design so far, and I decided to go all out and create my own charted lace. This is the first time I’ve created my own chart and tried … Continue reading »
My dog is an adorable sausage-like corgi named Sophie. She absolutely hates dog clothes so I’ve never tried to knit anything for her before, but they make her so cute! So they’re at least nice for pictures. This pattern is very simple. It is a cape like sweater and the main piece of knitting ends … Continue reading »
I have been knitting with “plarn” for a very long time. I wasn’t actually aware of this catchy nickname until recently. Plarn is plastic yarn made by cutting plastic grocery bags into a continuous long thin piece of plastic. This is shown at the right. You then knit various items out of the balled plastic. … Continue reading »
