Category: Crafts
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My first pair of socks
I said I wouldn’t knit any socks. I knew that I would totally suffer from second sock syndrome, so I never even considered knitting socks. Then I learned magic loop while knitting my son’s armor. Suddenly socks didn’t seem so bad. These are the tutorial socks from “2-at-time Socks” by Melissa Morgan-Oakes. I don’t know…
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Wrist warmers are finally finished!
I was almost done two weeks ago, but had the unfortunate problem of having way too much fabric in the hand… I had to frog it down to the ribbing and re-knit it with size 1 needles. Now, they fit! I did an inch of K2P2 ribbing on the hand to keep it from rolling…
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Nana’s Enchanted Cupcake
Knit washcloth in the shape of a cupcake. https://www.flickr.com/photos/shelkennon/2356900930/
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Two-Hour Purse Decorated and Ready-to-Go!
I finished up the two-hour purse by using hand-painted roving and my needle-felting tools and freeforming some cool swirls. Jay picked the roving because she wants the purse as a present for her birthday. Here’s the Front: and the back: I also felted a circular shape that I knitted with the leftover yarn. Jesse wants…
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A Busy Friday and Saturday
Friday night we went to the kids’ school to check out their science fair projects. Jesse’s project was about the stages of tadpole development. Unfortunately, all the tadpoles died to they got a frog that still had a bit of a tail. Jay and her friend did Volcanos. Saturday night, I got…
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Washcloth in progress…
Washcloth in progress Originally uploaded by Shel Kennon Year of Wonders continues with the Not-Your-Average Washcloth in Cotlin from Knit Picks. You can link to my current progress from the Ravelry module on the right side of the page.
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Happy Leap Day – Green Bunny Blanket is done!
A little more than a week before K returns to work and I got the green blanket buddy done! And in February as well. I guess it’s kind of fitting that a bunny project would be finished on leap day. Another project done for year of wonders! I was going to post last night about…
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Green blanket buddy
This one is a happy bunny! Unfortunately, it got lost for about a month or it would have been done before its recipient was born.
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Giant Bunny Blanket – Done and Discarded
Stupid crappy yarn keeps breaking… After the third time I realized that it wouldn’t hold up to being played with, so I finished up what I could, took photos and threw it away. OK, that part hurt….
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iPhone Case
Crocheted using Noro Sumile. Had to do something until my actual skin gets here from Amazon on Friday…. Tried to knit it, but it just wouldn’t be happy.