WARNING! Pictures of people dying!
Today Lisa hosted a sock blank dying party. For those of you new to this (as most of us were), sock blanks are preknit rectangles of undyed sock yarn that you use as a canvas to make any color sock yarn your heart desires. [...]
Archive for July, 2008
These socks are to dye for!
Posted in knitting, tagged dye, knit picks, party, pot luck, sock blank, sock yarn on July 27, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Hey, hey Charlotte…
Posted in knitting, tagged rain, shoes, spacer, swift, yarn on July 23, 2008 | 5 Comments »
Last night I was finally able to use Charlotte, my PVC pipe swift. She’s been sitting in the corner of the living room for a few weeks now because she was missing the all important spacer. Well, yesterday Lisa and I went to the Waterfront and I got a spacer at Lowe’s (and [...]
Good news and more good news!
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged book on disc, knitty, western on July 18, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I’ve had quite an exciting week! On Monday, I got a message that a design I submitted to a yarn company has been accepted for Spring 2009. They’re sending me the yarn and I get to knit up the sample and write up the pattern in 6 sizes. All due by the end of August. [...]
Take me out to the ball game…
Posted in knitting, tagged baseball, crochet, knitting, Pirates, Pittsburgh, PNC park, stitch 'n pitch on July 14, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Stitch ‘N Pitch 2008
Pittsburgh Pirates vs. St. Louis Cardinals
Final score: 11-6 Cards
Knitting score: Jaywalkers still not finished yet
We had a great time at the game yesterday. It was overcast (and threatened of rain) for most of the game, although some sun did peek through for a few innings. We were in the [...]
Charlotte P. Swift
Posted in Uncategorized, tagged PVC pipe, skeiner, swift, yarn on July 12, 2008 | 1 Comment »
Name: Charlotte P. Swift
DOB: July 12, 2008
Height: 48.5″
Width: 20.5″
Depth: 22″
Weight: Don’t know. But she seems pretty light to me.
I’d like to first thank Beata for posting such a great tutorial on her blog. THANK YOU!
Second, thanks a million to my darling husband who did all the grunt work (sawing, drilling, etc…) You are [...]
