brocade leaves pullover

Weekend Craftiness

I’ve decide to do the Sockdown Challenge on Ravelry this cycle around, mostly to keep myself honest and try some new patterns. There’s a pretty good list going for the coming year, and I’m looking forward to doing some new and different things. September’s challenge is to do either an orange sock, or a Cookie […]

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sunset tree quilt

Quilting Notes

I was finally able to spend some quality time working on my Sunset Quilt, one of the two projects I have planned for the Fire element for Project Spectrum. I had the idea for this quilt after seeing a picture of a stick silhouetted against a red and orange streaked sunset sky (it’s barely visible

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landscape quilt start

Craft Notes Part II

Riding a wave of fresh cranberry sauce success, I managed to cut out the background and water feature to one of the landscape quilts I’ve been pondering. It’s pretty rough, and will need some shaping (and a splash more green) once I go to sew it together, but actually seems to be shaping up pretty

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first socks

Craft Notes

I forgot to mention it a couple days ago when I completed them but, I have socks! The second one came out slightly large than the other. (I’m apparently starting to relax out of the beginning knitter’s propensity to knit tightly. Wish that hadn’t happened mid project, but that’s ok.) I also need to find

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first sock

Weekend Notes

My weekend started out with a lovely girl’s breakfast out with my mother, followed by a mutually enabling trip to some local craft stores. We checked out a little fabric place on the East End, where I found this great fabric: I’ve recently found out a good friend is pregnant with her second child, and

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fabric

Craft Notes

I was in a bit of cleaning mood last night, so decided to take a tour through my UFO drawer and the spillover on the top of the set of drawers holding the UFO drawer. In the grand scheme of things, I’m actually not that bad off, but the pile is still a little sobering.

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