Sunday, April 29, 2007

A Whole New Blog...


Ok I made a few more changes... lets just call it spring cleaning. I've added a link list now so if anybody has any ideas for links they'd like to see on it please let me know.

Well I finished the shorter fingerless gloves. I'm pretty pleased with them. I found the pattern on the web but I had to mess with it to get it to work. She had a mistake in her chart for the cable and of course I had to tinker with the gadge, but I was happy to know that I've come far enough along in this craft to recognize other peoples mistakes in their patterns and correct them *yeah!* Oh, I also did the thumbs completely differently, and I think the technique could be used to make pockets as well... I'll have to test that out. Oh yes, Cleo costarred with me in this picture. ;)

Saturday, April 14, 2007

Spring Knits





Well, we had knitting at my place once again. It was so much fun having you guys out, and thank you so much Kristi for the drinks. I loved all the projects everyone was working on... I'll have to make one of those headbands that Amber is sporting for myself. And at some point I'll have to sit down with Kristi and have her show me how she does that circular spiral baby blanket thingy (looks like a rasta hat while in process -- see pic). Anyway, loved them all and I hope to have you guys out at my place more often. Maybe if it warms up enough we could do our knitting outside. Aaron did say he wanted to get a mosquito magnet -- it could work -- *hope*. Hmmm... or knitting 'round the fire pit, could be interesting... we'd have to watch out for sparks.

Thursday, April 12, 2007

Long Cabled Fingerless Gloves


(Can you see the cables?)
I finished the long fingerless gloves. I'm pretty happy about them, I may even do some short ones as well.




The pattern for them is here... in case anyone wants to make some.
knitty.com/ISSUEspring07/PATTdashing.html

Can you tell I've been visiting Knitty a lot lately?

And now we revisit... Mathematical Knitting!


Hello, remember that link I posted way back when about the woman who was crocheting models of hyperbolic space (pretty cool). Well here are a few more links for mathematical knitting and crocheting. They have some really great pics of the models themselves... worth a look in. www.sciencentral.com/articles/view.php3?type=article&article_id=218392811

www.sciencenews.org/articles/20061223/bob10.asp

www.toroidalsnark.net/mathknit.html

The 3rd link has some of the coolest pics (you've got to click on her links and look around), and not just for models of hyperbolic space, there's other types of mathematical knitting there too. I particularly liked the link on orientable surfaces. Check it out.

Enjoy!

Wednesday, April 04, 2007

Space Invaders


Finished the Space Invaders coat for Archie. I got the idea from this pattern...

www.knitty.com/ISSUEspring07/PATTbmp.html

In case anybody wants the charts. I can't imagine how long it must have taken her to do those socks!