September 2009

Charity Knitting – Afghan Squares for Pine Ridge

September 29, 2009

Last year, I found some scraps of yarn in my stash and in the course of just a few days, I crocheted some afghan squares. These squares were sent to a woman Louisiana, who seamed them together with other squares, and sent the resulting afghans to the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota, where people [...]

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Sweater Progress!

September 25, 2009

I’m making progress on the Central Park (Non) Hoodie! I’ve completed the back, both fronts, and one sleeve. The second sleeve is on the needles, just past the cuff and at the start of the main cable section. Here are all of the pieces, displayed on our dining room table. While they may look a [...]

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Crafts at the Kentucky Bourbon Festival

September 23, 2009

Over the weekend, Mr. Martini and I traveled down to Bardstown, Kentucky to check out the annual Kentucky Bourbon Festival. While we were a tad disappointed with the lack of actual bourbon available (apparently, tastings are held at fundraiser events during the week), we had a great time walking around in the sunshine, checking out [...]

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A Note About Pin-Blocking

September 21, 2009

I’ve had a few of my non-knitting readers ask about the pin-blocking process I used on my Ishbel and Forest Canopy scarves in my last post. For the most part, I used the Yarn Harlot’s instructions from this post she wrote on the subject, with some minor tweaks, mostly due to lack of foresight on [...]

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FOs: Lace Shawl(ettes) aka – Scarves

September 16, 2009

Lace knitting always intimidated me. Not because of the actual knitting, though, despite my recent failures. What really intimidated me about lace knitting was the blocking. The soaking the garment, the stretching it out, the pinning it down evenly. I felt sure I would mess up somehow, that I would stretch the item beyond recognition, [...]

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FO: Baby Sweaters

September 14, 2009

This Sunday I had an Amazing Day of Knitting Productiveness. Mr. Martini slept in, and Sunday morning I sat on the couch, watched two movies (Good Night & Good Luck, and Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room) and put the finishing touches on two baby sweaters and a shrug. Then I washed them, and [...]

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