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saddle shoulder sweater

pattern: Saddle Shoulder Sweater from Knitting Without Tears
yarn: Mission Falls 1824 Wool – Denim and Putty
            Cascade 220 Superwash – Red – for hems
needles: Clover Bamboo
cast on: March 2nd  cast off: March 11th
notes:  I loved knitting this sweater.  I actually had to reknit the sweater after finishing the arms and getting a couple of inches into the body.  The yarn [...]

April 2nd, 2007 | | 5 comments

it’s all over but the grafting . . .

Bubba’s EZ Saddle Shoulder sweater is almost finished.   The ends are woven in, the hems are sewn, just have to graft the underarms.  Bubba had a fitting this morning, just so I could be sure it would fit over his pun’kin head.  It fit, no worries.

 

Bubba  really liked all the yarn ends hanging out of his [...]

March 11th, 2007 | | 5 comments

tomten

The Tomten is finished at last.

 

pattern:  Tomten by Elizabeth Zimmermann
yarn:  Dulaan Avalanche Yarn 
cast on:  December ‘06   cast off:  January 31st
notes:  Bubba isn’t frowning, he’s saying cheese, sort of.  This is one warm/heavy jacket and I forgot how much yarn garter stitch eats up.  I prolly could have used less buttons, but I didn’t want it to gap in the cold Mongolian winters. 

     [...]

February 1st, 2007 | | 6 comments

so much yarn, so little time

There is so much going on in the blogsphere.

Sock Wars:  I have my target, I have my weapon and I know who is hunting me.  I have some built in lag time (time in the mail) as my assasin is in the UK, but my target is in Australia, so she has some lag time too.  I have [...]

September 25th, 2006 | | 4 comments