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Monthly Archives: April 2007

Blind no more

Thanks to all of the suggestions on where to find hedgehog eyes and noses. Suzette left a comment telling me about the Doll and Bear Show and Sale on Sunday, so I went there in pursuit of eyes. And eyes I found. There was only one vendor with supplies, but she had exactly what I [...]

Blind Hedgehog and fibery goodness

Last weekend I was at Yarn Forward and I picked up the Fiber Trends Huggable Hedgehog pattern, and some suitable yarn with which to make said hedgehog. It was a total impulse purchase. An I-must-make-this-right-now kind of purchase. I didn't have my needles with me, so I didn't cast on immediately (and yes, I considered [...]

More Faroese shawl pictures

Thanks for all of the nice comments on the shawl! I hope you don't mind a second post on the same topic – since it took me a month to make, I figure it's worth at least two posts
Here are a couple more pictures, which are a bit better than the one [...]

Those Faroese sure are an ingenious bunch

Warning: This is a long post that goes into a lot of detail about the thought processes and decisions that went into making my latest FO, and a bit of math. If that doesn't interest you, and you just want to see the pretty shawl that was once the Big Pile o Lace, I would [...]

Knitting Therapy

Big update today – I've had a stressful couple of weeks, and thus have been doing lots of knitting. I don't have any finished objects, but I do have a lot to show. I'll start with an update of previously discussed projects:
The Big Pile o Lace
is finished. Well, the knitting is finished – I still [...]