Wrapping this one up.

December 26, 2012August 6, 2023 ~ laura

I’ve read a thing for someone on the internet.
If you like podcasts and Fantasy Short Stories, check out Podcastle.
In fact, if you like, you can start with the story I read here.

I have photos of the Rainbow Campfire Mitts finally.

I finished the Cat’s Cocoon thing, which he loves and will actually get in and not just lay on, but damned if he’ll stay in it when I am trying to get a photo of him using it.
It’s just not happening. He did make sure to guard it while I took a photo of it however, because he’s most definitely sure that it is HIS and he is NOT going to share it. Shmoo tried to raise it up a bit for me and Bri huffed at him and put his foot down on it so he could not.

I also knit a [Minecraft] slime as a Christmas Gift for a 2 year old, and it was a hit with most everyone but the recipient. This is to be expected of course, he’s 2. :) Even shmoo said he was really impressed at how it turned out, which he rarely says about any of the knitting anymore.

That’s it! Here’s your photos.

Wooly

May 5, 2008August 6, 2023 ~ laura

Ok.

The reason I took a month’s hiatus from knitting was because I was making a Wooly.

Specifically I was making a Puzzle Pirates themed Wooly for this contest.
The entry thread where you can see all the Woolies produced for the competition is here.

My entry looks like this:
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The gallery folder with all the pictures I took of the entire process is here.

Now that all the links are out of the way…My thoughts on this project are….

I didn’t like the cloth I ended up using as a backing. It had too much give and kept giving off fuzzy things.
I would have liked more time.
I should have made a grid on my fabric so that the lines formed from stitched were more inline and not so irregular.
While I like the authenticity of using my very own handspun, I think commercial embroidery floss would have made a better final product. It would have been much easier to have better detailing had I done so.
I think I should have been move creative in the scene I tried to create.
I am blown away and awed at the quality of the entries for this contest. There are so just many that are really great. And even the ones that are not so great each have *something* about them that is really neat.
I think that I *might* like to do this again sometime with no time limit on my own and see what I come up with because it the final product is really kinda neat. But not any time soon.
I don’t think that I will be the winner.
I am really happy to go back to knitting. My fingers are happy about it as well. Especially the one I kept stabbing with the needles.

Also, do you know what kind of willpower it took not to start my Firebird Sock kit right when it arrived and work on the wooly instead? DO YOU? And I am still not going to start the Firebird Sock just yet. I am going to finish shmoo’s socks first. He seems to feel unloved because I haven’t finished a pair for him yet

Skyscraper Socks.

July 31, 2007August 6, 2023 ~ laura ~ 16 Comments

My sock pal’s socks are complete. I have named them Skyscraper Socks, and am very pleased over all with how they came out. There are a few things I will be tweaking for the next pair and the pattern I am writing, but the over all look has made me really happy.

And this is what will be in the package for my sockpal when I mail them off on Thursday.

Most likely I will add a bar of soap from the last batch I made, and I will be adding the remaining yarn I used for these socks as well. That way, should they need a repair, she’ll have the yarn to do it.

Most of all I hope that my sock pal will love the socks as much as I do and that she is happy with her package.