So without further ado, I finally got Pepe’s PDF finished and listed on Etsy. I was kind of terrified and a little relieved. Pepe is also available for purchase through Ravelry, if you’d prefer to get it there.  This is my first venture into selling patterns. Hopefully the momentum sticks and I’ll be motivated to [...]

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Tags: etsy, for sale, knitting, listing, pattern, pepe
Filed under: Etsy, knitting, patterns

When I first started getting these brilliant ideas for various patterns, I always thought the hardest part was remembering to write down changes, and keep track of what I was doing. Since so much is largely experimental, I had to remember what I was doing and what I was changing. I’ve come to learn that [...]

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Tags: for sale, knitting, pattern, patterns, pepe, process
Filed under: knitting, patterns

When it comes to designing stuff on your own, there comes a moment when you have to decide to either write down every single mistake and step, and then go through the process of typing it all into a pattern that might have some semblance of coherency. And then deciding on how and to whom [...]

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Tags: crafting, creating, knitting, patterns, writing
Filed under: Crafting, patterns

I only took me a couple of days to complete the first Danger Crafts knit monster. My friends have all said wonderful things about it and I’ve even gotten a handful of requests for some to be made. I took a couple of days off before starting the next one, and this guy is a [...]

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Tags: doll, knit, knitting, projects
Filed under: dolls, finished projects, knitting

The crafting has been slow going now that the weather has gotten warmer. I find myself out a little more, or playing video games. My friend and I decided that we would try to make some amiguruimi’s in preparation of Xmas time. Except that creating patterns are unpleasant and annoying. I end up jotting down [...]

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Tags: Amigurumi, doll, knit, knitting
Filed under: Amigurumi, knitting, techniques

Entrelac is very time consuming. It seems that while it’s so very pretty to look at as you’re working in it, it sucks to feel like you’re getting no where for all the work. The starting of the entrelac was very deceiving as well. It looks like it will be less-wide than it turns out [...]

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Tags: knitting, Noro, scarf, yarn
Filed under: knitting, Yarn

I decided that I wanted to try something different with my the two balls of fingering weight Chroma from Knitpicks than what I’d done with the other colorways. I had made a scarf for my best friend, and a scarf for another good friend. But the scarf for me, I was drawing a blank. I [...]

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Tags: backwards, entrelac, knitting, new
Filed under: Crafting, knitting

Over the last few years I grew as a knitter. I loved challenging myself with different things, like a circular shawl (Girasole), or stoles (Anthemion shawl), and numerous sock patterns, particularly of the Wendy Johnson variety. What started off as a Boye aluminum straight needle obsession has quickly turned into a “make everything on circulars” [...]

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Tags: addi, hiyahiya, knitting, lace, loopy ewe, needles, turbo
Filed under: Crafting, Knit Picks, knitting, Needles, The Loopy Ewe

Some people are addicted to things like alcohol or cigarettes. I have an addiction with yarn. It’s not just your simple run of the mill addiction, though. Oh no, that might mean there’s an easy fix for the type of problem I suffer from. I have the version of yarn addiction that has me purchase [...]

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Tags: addiction, knitting, projects, stash, yarn
Filed under: Knit Picks, knitting, Yarn

So it seems there’s a week coming up in which you pick one of the days and it’s Knit in Public day. There are plenty of them out there all over the place, but I’m unsure there are any near me. I don’t want to try to plan anything, but I figure next week will [...]

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Tags: colusa, fair, kip, knitting
Filed under: knitting