Category: Work in progress
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Things Just Ain’t the Same
Reference How great is Mr. Penney? The other night, I found this under my pillow: Granted, I found it under my pillow at 3 a.m. in the morning, but nonetheless, isn’t it great? The book is by Karren Brito and is a feast for the eyes. Trying shibori is one of the things on my…
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Shake It Up
First, let me start off by apologizing for the quality of the pictures this time around. Caffeine and cameras (especially on macro setting) don’t mix. Reference Progress is being made on the socks: The second Taiga sock is started with the color progression matching that of the first sock (after rewinding the ball.) The Pro…
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Do the Kangaroo Hop
I couldn’t find a CD for it, so the DVD of the movie it comes from will have to do. Reference The question came up of whether Mr. Penney likes the socks I made him, and to that I can only say, “I don’t know.” Of course, only one of the socks is done, at…
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It’s a Mistake
Reference There is some kind of misunderstanding on your blog. What misunderstanding? They are saying that the socks are for me and that I should be conked on the head if I don’t like them. They aren’t for me. You are making the socks for yourself! Where did they get that idea from? From the…
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I’m Not Perfect (But I’m Perfect for You)
No, I am not right on time. Le sigh. Reference With all of the talk of the sock, you might think that the sweater for Mr. Penney with the soft deadline has gone lying by the wayside. But it hasn’t. I had to go back to doing the sleeves independently of one another because doing…
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You Can Do Magic
Reference Well, I can now say I can do the easy toe in my sleep. The sock is now on its way: I am doing 68 stitches for this sock because I tried 72 and that was too big of a sock, yet 64 was not quite big enough. For the 68, I just added…
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Come Undone
Reference Well, it appears what goes up must come down. On Friday night, I made another attempt at a toe-up sock, using the easy toe instructions from MSKS. On Saturday morning, this is what I had waiting for me. The yarn is more stuff that I bought off of eBay, this time from Francis Patrick. I was…
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Put Me Down
Reference Well, I was hoping to be farther along on this by now, but progress is still being made: The second sleeve has a few more rows to go, and then I will “put the stitches down” in to the body of the sweater and work on the collar. I am putting down stitches, as…
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House of Blue Leaves
Reference Ok, so they aren’t blue, but it is beautiful to see this in the morning, with the sunlight filtering through the trees in the front yard, hitting the trees in the back yard. First, an update on one of my little rants. It seems that there is some information about this subject, or at…
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Dirty Little Secret
Mr. Penney and I are mostly homebodies. Most of this is because we have gotten past the point of wanting to do the clubs and such. Another reason though, is because we have someone back home that we have to take care of: Bogey is a nine year old beagle that has been with Mr.…