Whorled and Purled

Incredi-cheapness.

kaitlen — Fri, 09 May 2008 01:57:00 +0000

So everyone always talks about how crappy Sugar n’ Cream yarn is (”dishcloth cotton”, if you will), but when I saw all the fun bright colors they had at Michael’s the other day, I got overly excited and bought some - bright orange, bright blue, pale yellow, and bright red. I bought them with awesome cotton slouchy summer hats in mind, and hey, if they turned out crappy I was only wasting $1.69 a hat.

So I made this awesome hat out of the bright orange, and it turned out GREAT! I can understand why you wouldn’t make, say, a sweater out of this yarn, but it’s great for hats. The coolest part of this hat is that it’s worked inside out…the “outside” is ribbed, but then you turn it “inside out” and it’s all awesome and bumpy!

The back is the best part…

She will pwn your soul…

kaitlen — Wed, 07 May 2008 06:38:26 +0000

Look what I found floating around Craigslist (for free, none the less)!

I think she’s secretly a model!

Her name is Emma, and her interests include licking, fingers, and licking fingers.

Chris is thrilled to have his leg attacked

The Ultimate in Nerd-dom…oh and bacon socks!

kaitlen — Mon, 28 Apr 2008 09:17:40 +0000

What does a really nerdy person knit? A handspun dice bag for role playing, of course…and then, apparently, she names it after her World of Warcraft character

My Erinndaii bag:

I also made some socks from some sock yarn remnants Dani handed off to me…and everyone informed me that they look like bacon. Hence, the Baconator Baby Socks!

TO-to-ro, To-TO-ro…

kaitlen — Wed, 02 Apr 2008 21:19:14 +0000

So I haven’t crocheted anything in about seven or eight years…but I made myself re-learn (kinda) so I could make this!

He would have been better with safety eyes, but since I didn’t have any I just embroidered the whole eye on.

Next I’m going to make the big blue Totoro so he won’t be lonely

Hitting the Curb…

kaitlen — Tue, 01 Apr 2008 01:40:46 +0000

So I finished the actual bag part of my curbing bag today, and grafted/kitchenered the bottom together. I don’t have any fabric to line it yet, and I am really not looking forward to making icord for the handle. I may wait (although seeing as I have negative money, it could be an extraordinary amount of time) until I can get one of those little round loom things to make it. I also don’t think I have enough of any matching/coordinating color to make a single-colored long icord. I guess I can just keep attaching new colors as I run out and they can just be random and rainbow…

Anyhow, here’s what’s done -

Aaaaannnnnd DONE!

kaitlen — Mon, 31 Mar 2008 09:27:51 +0000

I finally finished them! And I love them!

And as I predicted, Chris wants a pair for himself - good thing he can’t fit into mine.

I do not totally suck at life!

kaitlen — Thu, 27 Mar 2008 05:11:15 +0000

I finally managed to spin a decent fingering-weight yarn! And it’s prettier in person than it is in the pictures…the color is much more beauteous.

More on the tabis…

kaitlen — Fri, 21 Mar 2008 07:27:02 +0000

I’m pretty happy with them! If I were to do them again though, I’d shape the bigger toe cap a little differently.

Currently I’m a little past the heel…not sure how long I want to make the cuff yet though. I’m thinking they’ll probably end up being short socks, since that’s what I tend to wear in the summer.

Oh I am so good…

kaitlen — Sun, 16 Mar 2008 04:39:14 +0000

I wanted to make tabi socks to wear with my flip flops this summer. I attempted the Lickety Split pattern, but it completely confused me and made me want to bang my head against the wall. So I decided to make up my own pattern, using my normal toe-up sock techniques. I used magic cast on, and I made two toe caps at a time - both big-toe caps, and both 4-toe caps. Then I kitchenered them together, picked up a few stitches, and tada!

So I’m pretty proud of myself for actually figuring that out on my own. Now I just have to knit to the heel, turn it, and knit the cuff!

Tardo Kaitlen.

kaitlen — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 03:59:42 +0000

It would appear that I’m incapable of spinning fingering-weight yarn! Last time it was too thin; this time…I managed to get only 90 yards out of half of the 109 grams of roving I dyed, when I should have gotten at least 175 yards. I fail! I spun the other half bulky out of spite.