Blog entries - October 2008

Making Stripes

Shelley — Fri, 31 Oct 2008 06:06:21 +0100

We got a hole bunch of snow yesterday and Rob and I discovered that our front hall is crazy slippery when your shoes are full of snow. I had gotten some felting yarn a while ago with the idea of making a rug for our house but now I'm going to make a door mat. My idea is to knit strips, felt them and then sew them together. I'll need to put something grippy on the back so it doesn't ...

It Goes!

Shelley — Sun, 26 Oct 2008 12:56:39 +0100

We got a new car on Tuesday (I've been waiting since then for a bright enough day to get a nice picture and it's gotten a bit dusty in the mean time). It's cute. It's red. It has the following very cool features (compared to our old car):

- it starts! Without any extra tools, batteries or people; you just turn the key and the engine goes.

- it goes backward...

Getting There

Shelley — Sat, 25 Oct 2008 15:00:22 +0100

The quilting is done and the binding's prepared. Things still to do: tack down the edges and square up the quilt; make up a label (I recently discovered printable fabric sheets and have to say they are awesome for label making); sew on the binding; and hand stitch it closed. Oh, and maybe run the iron over it once before I take my "look, a finished object" pictures.

It was snowing

Shelley — Tue, 21 Oct 2008 22:08:13 +0100

We went for a walk on Sunday morning. It started snowing just as we left the house and as we walked around the lake we could see it gathering in places and drifting around on the ice that covered all the still water (moving water was still open and sounds particularly cool when everything else is frozen). We got hot noodle soup downtown before heading home again. When we got home I cast on for a knitted blanket.

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<h1>Fishnets</h1>
<p>Shelley — Sat, 18 Oct 2008 23:16:12 +0100</p>
<br />Yarn: Louet Jems Merino Sport in Citrus Orange<br />Size: as written<br />Yardage: 1.5 skeins<br />Needles: 3.25 mm and 4.00 mm dpns<br /><br />These are my first ever pair of knee-highs and I love how quickly they went. They were my travelling project on our recent vacation and I had to ration out my knitting time on the way home.<br /><br />The pattern actually calls for a worsted weigh...
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<h1>Home Again</h1>
<p>Shelley — Thu, 16 Oct 2008 23:58:48 +0100</p>
We got home safely Sunday night. I spent Monday trying to think up a witty blog entry but failed completely and thought I'd just show you a bunch of pictures like last time. As a started to pick and choose I discovered that I had way more pictures than I could reasonably force you to load in a blog entry so I'm just going to show off my nifty gallery features and put up a bunch of pictu...
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<h1>Calorimetry and Updates</h1>
<p>Shelley — Fri, 03 Oct 2008 01:22:44 +0100</p>
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Pattern: Calorimetry, Knitty: Winter 2006
Yarn: Cheery Tree Hill Possum Worsted in Ratta
Size: made across 96 ...