To finish the year, I'm featuring some of the special projects that have sprung up for various patterns. It's so inspiring to see everyone's individual colour choices and creativity! Today's pattern is Mobius Mitts v1 Download pattern PDF | Add to your Ravelry library seljatar | silvermoon-dragon kristarella | CodeM0nkey soj | sqwhirl To see the full list of projects, visit Ravelry: ...
Happy Christmas everyone! Hope everyone had some lovely celebrations. It was great to see the new Christmas Tree TARDIS projects springing up over December. I only managed one gift-knit this year - some Randiriel socks for my Mum. They fit! Hooray! Pattern: Randiriel socks by Alexandra Wiedmayer (travelling cables variation) Sock knitting is becoming more enjoyable over time - and I love the look and...
I dropped in to Dairing (Teresa Dair's unique fibre and knitwear studio) yesterday at lunchtime, and discovered a 20% off sale. Hooray! I had a birthday voucher to spend, so I picked up some DL-2 linen to play with. Couldn't wait to play with it, so did a little swatching on my train ride home. It's a very interesting texture. I'm going to...
The last four subjects that make up my library Masters are now complete ^_^ Finishing these last few subjects while full-time working highlighted how much I enjoy my job, how lucky I am to have it, and how almost everything I do at work is more enjoyable than writing uni essays :p I haven't received any formal documents yet but hopefully that part...
To celebrate the release of Chiaroscuro, my Ruins pattern is now available for free. ~~ Download free pattern (free as of 9 Nov 2014) View on Ravelry “There, down the roofless wall did glow The zun upon the grassy vloor, An’ weakly-wandren winds did blow, Unhinder’d by a door” (The Castle Ruins - William Barnes) Dreaming of castles in the mist, and adventure?...
New pattern out today! View on Ravelry $2.50 - All profit donated monthly to charity. Pattern details - Chiaroscuro fingerless gloves Chiaroscuro - in painting, photography and cinema - strong contrasts between dark and light serving to achieve a sense of depth and volume... This pattern was designed to feature metallic yarn (or other specialty fibres) without the commitment of a full garment. The...
Finished a couple of sweaters over the last few months - but have got behind on the blogging! For this sweater I decided to use the pattern Julissa (scoop neck version) by Vanessa Smith as a base for a cardigan (as I had heard it was very well-written) - but then decided that the cabling might not be quite enough to keep me...
This year the Australian sheep and wool show became a special weekend away with my Mum. Sadly my usual crafty companions weren't able to join us, so Mum had to endure a couple of hours of wool admiration amid our weekend away. As the largest collection of indie yarn/fleece sellers available in Victoria, this show is always an exciting one to attend. We...
fingerless gloves
Would you like to be a tester? - Chiaroscuro fingerless gloves
Thursday, July 10, 2014
A new pattern has recently been brewing... The idea was to create a pattern that featured metallic yarn without the need to knit a full scarf or garment. The gloves are knit from the bottom up, in three sections. The first and third sections involve creating two layers for a shadowed appearance; the middle section involves a cable on the back of the...
For quite a few years I've been meaning to share and give thanks to my favorite crafty podcasts for many hours of entertainment and inspiration. These dedicated podcasters have made my fairly lengthy commute bearable, and have become familiar voices in the crafty community. Listening over many years has made it clear how much work and dedication is required to keep these wonderful...
The War Doctor is coming... After I buy some grey embroidery thread :p ...
My brother gifted me some Persian fairy floss (vanilla flavoured) for my birthday - yum! It looked somehow familiar... and when comparing it to the banana spinning fiber in my stash - it's actually hard to tell them apart (one smells better). I should be careful not to mix them up! :P ...
A gift voucher from dairing arrived for my upcoming birthday - fun - fun! Will look forward to choosing some exciting yarn to buy! dairing ...
Somehow I've ended up with three projects with only sleeves remaining... sigh... Second sleeve syndrome? ...
Hope everyone had a good Easter holidays. We've had a lot of holiday time lately, with our trip to New Zealand, followed by Easter, followed by Anzac Day. I didn't find as many fibery creatures as I hoped on our travels - but lots of sheepy soft-toys, and amazing scenery everywhere we went (thanks to gfxmonk for taking most of our picies). Castle...
Getting some (chocolate fueled) sewing practice in over the Easter break ^_^ ...
Off to NZ! Hoping to find lots of sheep! 'Field of Sheep in New Zealand Panorama' by Michael Matti (CC BY-NC 2.0) Off to NZ! Hoping to find lots of sheep! 'Field of Sheep in New Zealand Panorama' by Michael Matti (CC BY-NC 2.0) ...
Last night I cast off my twin leaf Julissa. This sweater project took around seven months, but I think this was partly due to it becoming a little too heavy to take on the train each day. Knitting in progress. I used the Julissa pattern as a base to help me learn how to construct top-down sweaters, then heavily customised it into a...
Over the holiday season we received some lovely Dutch sweets and treats from Tim's colleagues in the Netherlands. To celebrate the release of Oni Labs' Conductance, we decided to post something fun back in response - plushie versions of the company logo - Onis! I invented a little prototype, then crocheted four Onis, one for each of the team. At the last minute I...
This week we spent a few nights camping at Blanket Bay on the Great Ocean Road. The campsite was nicely partitioned and had impressive facilities for such an out of the way location. We also had lots of company from the locals: Tim captured lots of koala action... and adorable plump wrens I only took four crafty projects to work on while camping... after...
I'm retrieving the zombie librarian for this post because after attending the VALA conference and this year's Library Camp (#libcamp14), I felt a little zombified. VALA provided the spacious conference experience of attending large lectures and wandering around looking at product displays - while Library Camp (an un-conference) felt very intimate. Clearly a lot of pre-work and thought had gone into enabling Library Camp...
I always love to see different interpretations of the same pattern. Below are the test projects knit up for my Linen stitch gloves pattern by Elizek and steelelady, who kindly volunteered to help with the testing. Test knit by steelelady Elizek's variegated sample produced a particularly interesting result - with a regular honeycome-like pattern. The thumb gusset unfortunately broke up the pattern a little, but...
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