Author: textillian
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Finish What Ya Started
Reference Woohoo! They be done! I am pretty happy with the way that they came out.
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Blue (Da Ba Dee)
Reference Here’s a pic of my current knitting and spinning projects. Can you guess what my favorite color is? For the Ice Ice Baby sock, I am nearing the finish line. I am on the leg of the second sock, so hopefully I will finish it up in the next week. Kokomo is making slower…
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Here You Come Again
Reference By now, you have probably heard about the second helping of snow that we are currently getting. It is a concern because it looks like we will may be stuck for a while because of this. Mr. Penney and I have been fortunate in that we have not lost power for any significant period…
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Baby Talk
Reference It’s been a while, hasn’t it? Don’t worry, I am still knitting. In fact, I am working on baby sweaters because pregnancy seems to be contagious at the moment. Two friends of mine are expecting their first offspring at any moment now, and my niece is expect her first child in July, so I…
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Kokomo
Reference It’s been a while since I have actually talked about what I am actually working on, so I figured now would be as good of a time as any to do that. First, the infamous Ice Ice Baby sock. I took this photo this morning. I finished off the first sock this evening after…
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Ice Ice Baby Errata
Sorry guys, I found a mistake in the pattern. For the leg portion, where it says: Do this for 14 rounds total. It should be: Do this for 12 rounds total. This mistake on my part won’t affect fit. It just means that the cabling on the icicles on the back of the leg are…
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Let’s Talk About Sex
I mean socks! Yes, socks! Let’s talk about socks. Definitely socks! Reference For the past few years, I have been mainly doing socks. While I did a few pairs of socks in my early knitting “career”, it wasn’t until I got Sensational Knitted Socks that I really got into knitting socks, and specifically toe-up socks.…
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Ice Ice Baby
Reference Well, with this happening this weekend and the fact that everyone should have received their shipment now, I can now talk about Ice Ice Baby, the sock pattern I designed for Sheila, as well as the colorway that Sheila designed for it. Go no further if you haven’t received yours and still want to…
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Easy Come, Easy Go
Reference With finishing up the one pair of socks, it was time to cast on another project. Since a friend of mine gave birth to a son earlier in the year, and I hadn’t completed anything for said child yet; I decided that I needed to knit up something for the boy. (I did have…
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Dark Lady
Reference Finally, something to show you! My Poesis socks are done! And although I really love the resulting sock, I doubt if I will ever work with a yarn this dark again. It was very difficult for me to see the stitches that I was working in anything but ideal light; and most of my…