ruffle fish
won yarn on Anatomy of Knitting podcast. it screams Spring and KRISTINE to me!
clad in sparkle wristers
adapted the Cladonia for mitts.
Smoke and Mirrors
my mother in law bought the yarn and pattern for this at Redlands Yarn from the owner/designer. 37g of sequin yarn remains.
poker case cozy
poker chip case sleeve plus coordinating phone case (2/13-2/14)
monkey caught a bee
Knit.Sock.Love was a gift from MSkiKnits. Adapting for Toe-up, with a few extra stitches on the sole to make it slightly bigger than the small size. 9st/inch. The toe-up options of Los Manos Loco (with no purls) and the Toe-up Monkey Socks by Zvenhy Levy (with many adjustments) are helpful for people wanting to do…
clad in sparkle
mod to use my leftover slate + new dragonfly? dragonfly + black border + red lace. slate and red alternate for stripe? beads on lace, borders. Tip: for the stitch markers during the stripes, put one type of markers for the first half of the shawl (I did m1r ala Cat Bordhi toe increases), and…
road to health, part one
Laceweight version, held single throughout for a light and airy scarf size clapotis. may have only done 6 repeats of the increase section, instead of 6 MORE, or 7 total. based on a rough count of the finished product. 41 total dropped stitches. I repeated the straight section until I got a rough idea of…
crosswords of knitpurlgurl memories
mods – increased the number of pattern rows to optimize usage of the skeins on hand of my handspun. 1 skein orange+orange, 2 skein orange+pink, 1 skein pink+pink increased the number of repeats in orange+pink to use more. needs blocking.
CA on my mind
this may finally be the pattern for this weirdly striped Opal. very deep stash! a little scratchy, hoping for workhorse socks. adjusting to do toe-up version, still need to pick a heel, maybe the fleegle heel like my froot loops? February, 2012: needle broke, replaced with a square kollage with a floppy cable and it…
baby pullovers x2
3 skeins of each, perhaps hats to match. just need blocking!