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Archive for May, 2008

Charlotte the PVC swift

A few weeks ago I decided to make a PVC swift that I saw on Ravelry. Beata posted on one of the forums a month earlier that she made the swift and would write up instructions. She was true to her word and if you’re interested in making a swift yourself, the very [...]

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Sent off my Knitty submission today

I got my automatic confirmation e-mail from Knitty. Fingers (and toes) crossed.

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My. brain. is. stuck. Need to reboot.

Sorry, no pictures in this post.
So my whole life this past week has been Knitty-focused. My brain is stuck on this pattern, formatting it to Knitty standards, photographing it, submitting it, and all that. And I read a post the other day on Ravelry that someone’s pattern has already been ACCEPTED! [...]

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Knitty photo shoot

Today Lisa and I went to Oakland (in Pgh) for my official Knitty photo shoot. In all, she took 163 pictures of me parading around in my handknit *SECRET SUBMISSION*, trying hard to pretend it’s autumn. (It was a lovely spring day, which made it difficult…) I felt a bit odd posing [...]

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I just sewed a button hole with my sewing machine FREEHAND! I have no button hole maker, or gizmo, or attachment, or foot, etc…, and I really needed a button hole. So I recalled how the machines in my sewing class made them and I tried it. Only the ones in class [...]

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