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The idea or more accurately the need for this fingerless glove came from Nick, who needed something to replace a mouse mat with. Behold - a design!
Let me present the Infringing Mitt (formerly known as something else - see the comments about the name change (and quite rude corporate pressure.
Note: I offer this mitten pattern for no fee for your own personal use - you may not sell this pattern or the mitts you knit using it (ask me about charity). Please consider my stitch markers and yarns or Worsted Knitt's Shirts and Bags when planning on getting some knitting t-shirts!
Now, I'm not sure if this is really called freeform what I'm doing (see Prudence Mapstone's explanation and beautiful work for more experienced view of freeform) but I'll just go ahead and call it that.
I've started a blanket. I started knitting by a square, and then another from it, then picked up some stitches and knit some more. I also attached a piece of tunisian crochet I had ready, and knit some more. It's so much fun!
Ok, the shawl for the Sammakkoprinssi-KAL is finished. It didn't become the gorgeous triangular shawl I was hoping for - see, the YO holes not only make the shawl wider, but also taller. Only in the middle, mind you. So it's not so much triangular as it is a square.
It does work as a shawl, but better it warms nicely as a laphgan / throw when sitting in our cold living room.
Some time ago I asked you, what should I do with the ugly yarn I had - a weird mixture of different fibres, and of a funny colour of blue-hued ice. I got some great suggestions, but I decided to take the easy way out, and just start a shawl with YO increases around the middle stitch, with big size 15mm needles. Here's the beginning.
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Aloitin viimein huivin Sammakkoprinssi / Hirviöstä kaunittareksi - KALiin. Toistaikseksi näyttää aika kivalta!
Today is the Naked CSS 08 day. It’s the day you turn off your websites CSS and show the plain output of your System. I hope you don’t mind.
Last year there were big riots in Burma, like in Tibet now, the Blogsphere created a project called "Free Burma". Since then nearly no blogger wrote about Burma and what's happening there. Only specific blogs still keep the information going. It was probably a sign of faith or destiny or both when I got "The Lizard Cage" a book written by Karen Conelly.
I love cats. I really do, but I don't have one - and propably won't for a while, due to my life situation. A while back my need for a cat became too big, and I started to knit a cat. Today I finished him.
I used Kollinroikale pattern from Ullaneule.net, quite heavily modified though. I think I shouldn't have modified so much, he looks a bit more like a rat or a leguana than a cat... oh well. He's cuddly though, the Lana Grossa Tiramisu yarn in 100% microfibre is so soft and lovely! The cat was knit on 6mm needles.
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I've got Earth Day sale going on at the US shirt and bag shop.
15% off all eco-friendly products: cotton totes, organic cotton and bamboo t-shirts and hoodies. Coupon Code is valid from April 1, 2008 to April 22, 2008, on all orders over $20.00. Also organic plus-size t-shirts are now available!
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I'm stash busting this year, and the quickest, funnest way I can do that is knitting funky scarves. I have made many of these already, with different yarns and needle sizes, and while I had nothing really easy to knit on Friday (I wanted just something really really easy!) I started a new scarf. I finished it on Sunday. Here it is.
Knit with remnants of different yarns - there's a ball of funky, mossy green with bobbles (the middle), some baby yarn in green, more baby yarn in light turqoise, plus scraps of green and white wool. I knit it on 15 mm needles, which makes the scarf really airy and light. A fun quick project!
