By popular demand, here are the fingerless gloves with the stockings. They where made with the extra sleeve ends by cutting a 1 inch snip about 1-1.5 inches down from the edging. I cut them so the seams of the sleeves ended up on the palm side. Now they are keeping my hands warm while [...]
Entries Tagged as ‘patterns’
15 December, 2008
Upcycled Sweater X-mas Stocking: A Tutorial
Well it is that time of year again, time to hang up those stocking in hopes that someone will come along in the middle of the night and fill them with goodies.
Last year I threw away the ratty acrylic $0.99 cent stockings my BF had promising that I would make new ones worthy of actually [...]
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 [...]
6 November, 2008
Design for Mankind: Handmade Edition
A fab Blog/Mag by Erin Loechner, not to be missed! Oh, and a pdf of the mag is FREE and no trees are harmed in its downloading, but some of the stuff is so cool you might want to print a few pages.
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 [...]
