Friday, September 10, 2004

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la Fleur de Fluffa: Completed Back

Sooner or later in your Journey down the Fiber Highway, you’re gonna need a Friend.
A Friend that maybe knows the answer;
a friend that’s traveled down that bumpy Road.

You know the Road I’m talking about. Whether it’s some technique that’s strangling your output because it’s just too weird to be believed or a funkay pattern dialogue that needs something much larger than you, your finger and Babelfish or a yarn content that Just Says NO to being blocked, chances are there is SOMEONE out there who will KNOW WHAT TO DO!

Has been there BEFORE infact and can relight your fire for ya…

sequinK writes: “Oh my,… I made the same sweater in the same yarn AND same color!! I love it, and Silvia’s right — it’s a hot little number!

Yeah Yeah WOOT! I am DELIVERED! I’ve had fits of starting and stopping with this beautiful design since I birthed it on a Startitis Sunday late this winter. As usual, I can’t leave well enough alone and had to:
Upsize It
Use a different Yarn from what the Pattern called for
Use a different Gauge from what the Pattern called for
Hate the sleeve caps enough to, you guessed it, REDRAW the curves once again…

But here was #25, finished, in all its GLORY! ready to inspire and gently paddle my A** to the finish line!

I need that sometimes; OK, I need that alot. I am fickle! I will start then drop any project ANY time…

I was especially stalled, because in this color (a deep sortof Indigo, very hard to photograph), it was very hard for me to visualize what it would look like. Now I am charmed and AMAZED!

So for a little Friday Inspiration, grab a cup and go HERE and visit Ms. SequinK’s GLORIOUS FO’s

As FATE would have it, Ms. sequinK also has a Silver Reed LK-150 – check out this cool poncho, which I’ve dubbed the “Here I Come Poncho” teeheehee…

Wednesday, September 8, 2004

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wot’s the Secret Word?

Ding Dong Daddy OH! It’s Back-to-School all over the land and I’ve been hit with that sentimental something that always makes me smile this time of year.

Everybody is out shopping for new clothes (YES! Even those NOT going backTSkl) and having a ball. It’s a NEW YEAR of sorts and I’m celebrating right along with all the kids. I love this time of year.

I will go out and buy a pack of NEW PENCILS just to smell the wood when you open the package. ILOVEIT.

My mother, for years and years after I left home, used to send me six-packs of underwear in September, just in case I *forgot* it was TIME TO GET some.

After updating the Galleries in the last week or so, I reflected on my last couple of year’s output and realized it takes me a long time to finish things. Often, I start something for Spring/Fall, etc, get it almost finished and then the season up and changes on me. The poor little garment then gets folded away and put in the Marination Camber to be finished next year. (For a FABULOUS FINISH in time for the season, check out Claudia’s beautiful lacy sweater HERE). This is why it seems like I knit so fast sometimes – people always ask me this – I have projects in various stages of completion hacked away in my closet or MC.

This little lovely hasn’t been in the box for too long. I made these sweater pieces by machine a few weekends ago – they are my maiden outing on the LK-150. I’ve had the yarn, a Phildar cotton/acyrlic – *Marjory*, for a couple of years. It was from a destashing lady on eBay – this was before I knew the goodness of Phildar from Becky and Alison and Sil.

What a score! 20 balls of ecru and 20 balls of black in pristine condition – makes my head spin to think about it!

I’ve wanted a sweater like this for as long as I can remember.

Hmmm, memory cells holding about 5 mo. worth of data this year, 2004. Totally inspired by the folks over HERE

But I usually make cardigans (and shells)! Pullovers (out of wool) are just too HOT for my metabolism or something and I do not have many. But now I can make a bunch out of all that sport/DK weight stuff in the Stash Palace!

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the World’s Tiniest Contest

Guess what the completed word on the above sweater will be and WIN! enough Rowan All Seasons Cotton to make the NEW! ChicKnits Aran Gauge Bucket Hat! (Pattern included)

RULES: email me HERE with the word CONTEST in the subject line and your guess in the body of the email. Submit your entry by September 21, 2004

Winner to be selected by random drawing and TBA September 22, 2004