30 September 2007
Knit Prezzies! + Projectbrag
The gal tasked with spoiling me in the punk rock gift exchange did a great job!
She sent stitch markers, fun needles, soft sage-y sockyarn, and fun bright handpainted yarn.
Best, though, were the already-knit fingerless mitts.
Woo!
Now for what I've been knitting. The Bud Hat.
I started this hat when I got the Harry Potter 7 book on tape from Mom. It's extra-thick because of the fair-isle floats on the back, and I used a fold-over Picot edge for the bottom part so my ears would be extra warm.
The yarn is from Miss Marts, I managed to get 2 great hats out of the alpaca blend she gave me for Christmas/birthday 2 years ago.
The hat was finished at the Jazz/Blues Festival in Bamberg. I sat at a picknick table with strangers, drinkin beer, listening to mediocre jazz under the stars, and knitting.
Thanks to everyone who helped bring this hat together. :)
She sent stitch markers, fun needles, soft sage-y sockyarn, and fun bright handpainted yarn.
Best, though, were the already-knit fingerless mitts.
Woo!
Now for what I've been knitting. The Bud Hat.
I started this hat when I got the Harry Potter 7 book on tape from Mom. It's extra-thick because of the fair-isle floats on the back, and I used a fold-over Picot edge for the bottom part so my ears would be extra warm.
The yarn is from Miss Marts, I managed to get 2 great hats out of the alpaca blend she gave me for Christmas/birthday 2 years ago.
The hat was finished at the Jazz/Blues Festival in Bamberg. I sat at a picknick table with strangers, drinkin beer, listening to mediocre jazz under the stars, and knitting.
Thanks to everyone who helped bring this hat together. :)
Labels: knit
27 August 2007
Punk Rock Knitters
i'm normally totally averse to using this space to answer questionnaires, but i want to get a boxful of knitting prezzies from some mysterious punk rock girl somewheres, so i'm gonna play nice (more or less) and answer some questions for the good people at the Punk Rock Gift Exchange
1. Why are you punk?
because pink was already taken.. because i was not H enough for phunk. because all the other people with unusual piercings are punk, right? because punk has been watered down into an efficient catchall word for non-fitter-inners. ..so i kind of fit in there. hey, and then there's the music.. let us not forget about the loud simple, kick you in the gonads music. :D
2. What are your five favorite things? (these don't have to be knit related)
bicycles! and adventures! and gin! also books and yarn in lots of colors
3. What are your three favorite things that you have made with knitting/crochet?
i wear my fingerless mits all the time, and scarf and hat like mad in the winter. i'm always really proud of something when i make it myself, especially when i designed it myself too.
4. What five things would you love to see in a swap box someday?
yarn! (something luscious? unique? pretty much any!), knitting books/magazines that i haven't seen (especially non-english, or interweave spring 07 - i was moving and my subscription hadn't caught up to me), stitchmarkers, something special from the area of the swap-buddy, and maybe knitting accessories - fancy needles, funny measuring tape, project bags, sheep jokes.
5. What are your three favorite yarns? What are your three least favorite yarns?
cascade 220 is a real workhorse, i fell in love with Jo Sharp silk road aran tweed, and noro silk road. wow, kind of a theme there, but one's tweedy and the other has long color stripes.
least favorites include acrylic-y stuff, pink/blue/yellow baby pastels, and hemp - feels like knitting barbed wire! ..which come to think of it, would be pretty punk. maybe i don't qualify....
6. What are your five favorite delicacies?
7. What are your three favorite guilty pleasures?
trashy TV series on DVD, big fantasy/scifi novels (especially Robert Jordan and Isaac Asimov), and iiiiiiice cream.
8. What are the five things you look forward to every week?
free time for sleeping/knitting/tinkering, a long bike ride, fresh bread at the bakery, emails from my friends back home (michigan), and playing soccer (football).
9. What do you collect?
bicycles, friends, embarassing stories.
umm.. i have a little start on yarn, roving and fabric stashes (i spin and sew a little too, just to subvert the patriarchy)
umm.. i have a little start on yarn, roving and fabric stashes (i spin and sew a little too, just to subvert the patriarchy)
10. When is your birthday?
january 15
11. Do you have any wishlists?
on amazon.com and amazon.de, and i have a hearts list on etsy.
12. What would you like your pal to know that is not covered here?
i live in germany, speak and read english and german, and pretty much just read spanish. i'm a engineer, so i'm pretty good at following instructions/pictures when i want to, or improvising a solution when i don't feel like following directions. i just knit my first pair of socks and was pretty darned proud. i like putting stitch patterns (lace, color, cable) into things that i make. oh, and my favorite colors are rich ones, saturated. i lean towards reds and oranges especially, but also blues/greens/purples.
hope this helps!
10 July 2007
blood sacrifice to the domestic goddess
wow. it seems that even though i've jumped on the nerd wagon with Flock, the nerdy bloggerfriendly web browser (which does tabs like firefox, yaay), my posts still don't write themselves! shock and awe.
ah well. including pictures is way easier, though.
flag cakes from my little 4th of july shindig. i had a couple of people over for Jesus Burgers (so named because i learned the recipe from a guy who looked like jesus. no jesuses were harmed in the making of these burgers).
the cakes are so from a JellO ad in Woman's day a couple years ago, but they usually go over ok.. except i couldn't find real jello, and had to substitute Quark for Cool Whip. and that was weird, because quark is some kind of yogurty cheese thing.. but it was the best i could come up with. *shrug* noone spit it out.
and these are the socks i was working on this weekend.
i grafted a toe!
right before i savaged myself with a bread-knife and got to visit the folks in the emergency room.
see what all this domestic tom-foolery does to a girl?!
i need to ride my mountain bike this weekend. or shoot something. jeez.
ah well. including pictures is way easier, though.
flag cakes from my little 4th of july shindig. i had a couple of people over for Jesus Burgers (so named because i learned the recipe from a guy who looked like jesus. no jesuses were harmed in the making of these burgers).
the cakes are so from a JellO ad in Woman's day a couple years ago, but they usually go over ok.. except i couldn't find real jello, and had to substitute Quark for Cool Whip. and that was weird, because quark is some kind of yogurty cheese thing.. but it was the best i could come up with. *shrug* noone spit it out.
and these are the socks i was working on this weekend.
i grafted a toe!
right before i savaged myself with a bread-knife and got to visit the folks in the emergency room.
see what all this domestic tom-foolery does to a girl?!
i need to ride my mountain bike this weekend. or shoot something. jeez.
