Entries Tagged as ‘crochet’

18 February, 2009

Knitting and Crocheting Along

I finally got some of the photos off the of camera! Here are some of the things I have been working on:

The Sidelines Top saga continues, I am working on the front and am at the decreases for the waist. Now that I can work the cable pattern by site rather then having to check [...]

2 December, 2008

Yummy Yak and Another Noro Scarf

So do you remember that yummy looking yak and merino roving that I got at Color from  A Verb for Keeping Warm?  Well I have been busy on the wheel lately and it is now a lovely fingering/lace weight yarn.
I also finally got the last bit of the Plumber plyed and am now trying to [...]

10 November, 2008

TeaTreats

This weekend was a fun tea things filled weekend. On Saturday my friend Nita (SpitSplice to any Ravelers out there) came and dropped off two boxes full of crochet and knitting patterns for me to go through (more on these later) and then we and her hubbie went to my local tea bar, L’amyx, for [...]

15 October, 2008

Lacey Lovelies

A doily from high school that I did. It always reminds me of the stories my friend Libby told about the crazy annoying peacocks that live up in the hills around her grandmother’s house. I also hear that they taste great with a red wine sauce.

21 June, 2008

Yarn Project Updates

So it has been a while since I showed you what I am working on in the yarn world, all I can say it that I have been a little veggie struck lately. Here are a few of the things I am working on:

This is the Lizard Lattice scarf, it is Noro Kureyon (my [...]

28 January, 2008

Check These Out

Crocheted Lamps from Jenny Ryan

10 October, 2007

The Local Internet Library

Lately I have been spending a lot of time at my local library, the internet library that is, Google Books to be precise. You have probably heard about Google’s efforts to digitize the worlds reading material and how many are split on the issue of the legality of it all. Full versions of alot of [...]

29 July, 2007

Lambtown

So yesterday was the Lambtown, the Dixon Sheep and Wool Festival. The BF was very sweet and drove myself and my friend Libby from high school through all the gross traffic on I-80 while we just gabbed the whole way (he is definitely a keeper).
Unfortunately thanks to rising [...]

25 April, 2007

Flower Power

So here are the “long” awaited pictures of the flowers I have been playing around with for my bed. I finally took them to work with me and took pictures on my break in my Co-workers garden out behind our building.
They are alot of fun and I gave the black one to one of the [...]

17 April, 2007

Updates and breaking news

Things are moving apace in the world of me and my mine. I have been experimenting with a crochet flower pattern to make flowers to decorate the amazing convertable Ikea bed, more specificly to knit giant flowers to top the post with to cover up the ugly cut ends that used to be on the [...]