Tag Archives: booties

year of scarves update #9

Posted on November 20, 2010 by syb

Getting close to the end! This is the ungrateful one’s (or her boyfriend’s) un-Noro scarf in Moda Dea Tweedle Dee. She wanted something in these colours and I was lucky enough to find plenty of each colour from two different … Continue reading →

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year of scarves update #7

Posted on September 27, 2010 by syb

So, far from having all the spare time in the world now that I’m down to just the 2-credit internship to go, I’m swamped with work.  It might have something to do with still not being very good at saying … Continue reading →

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the design process #3

Posted on August 1, 2010 by syb

Well, the internship finished (and yes, I will blog about that when I’ve caught my breath) and I was finally able to finish knitting test jesters and get the pattern finalized. I’m rather taken with them. 

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the design process #2

Posted on July 3, 2010 by syb

So … slowly, slowly go the jester booties while I’m interning.  Not much free time at all during the week, and I’m brain-dead when I do get any. Bootie #1 is almost done, so I’m going to finish it today, … Continue reading →

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the design process

Posted on June 26, 2010 by syb

So, I woke up this morning from a vivid (if bizarre) dream that involved knitting tiny little coloured points … obviously I need to design some jester booties! I sketched out a rough bootie outline, scanned it, pasted it into … Continue reading →

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stupid is as stupid does

Posted on May 7, 2010 by syb

So, I’m reknitting the strawberry booties so that I can make sure the pattern works before I put it up for sale on Ravelry.  I wasn’t ever completely happy with the shape of the finished booties, so after knitting one … Continue reading →

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year of scarves update #4

Posted on May 3, 2010 by syb

Not too much scarfey action lately. I seem to rip out more than I actually knit. *sigh* Still, I have started a Karius for myself.  It’s a good portable project and I won’t be wearing it until the fall anyway, … Continue reading →

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help for haiti

Posted on January 16, 2010 by Kathie

Besides what we will send as a family monetarily, 100% of all my Ravelry pattern sales for the months of January and February (including patterns already sold this month before the earthquake) will go to Doctors without Borders (Medecins sans … Continue reading →

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a quick update

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Kathie

And I’m determined to post this right away. The handknit librarian site is live, but only partially.  There’s much more work to do on that this week, but I’m looking forward to really getting some solid content uploaded and to … Continue reading →

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no-one to blame but myself

Posted on December 28, 2009 by Kathie

I can’t even blame javascript this time. The following post was written in early December, and somehow, while I was waiting to take some pics to post, I lost track of it … Take yourself back in time to December … Continue reading →

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