Archive for the 'Finished Objects' Category

How to Get a Hat out of a Rabbit

Wednesday, February 1st, 2012

It’s much less disgusting than it sounds, I promise, because you don’t need to use the whole rabbit. No bunnies were harmed to make this hat, only defluffified a little bit.

Step 1: Obtain a skein of Fleece Artist Peter Rabbit, 90% angora and 10% nylon.

Step 2: Knit a hat. Oh, crap, I guess this isn’t [...]

In Case You Were Wondering

Thursday, September 29th, 2011

Our wedding was perfect.

I finished my wedding shrug in time, because “at the hairdresser’s a few hours before the ceremony” is totally “in time.” I finished the garter, too, by which I mean that my mother tied the ends of the elastics together a few minutes before the ceremony because I never got around to [...]

*shrugs*

Monday, June 20th, 2011

Lately, it’s been all about the shrugs.

The recently-finished shrug is the Two-Tone Ribbed Shrug by Stefanie Japel, in Cascade 220, colours Silver Grey and Cotton Candy.

The actual knitting went fairly quickly, but I agonized over seaming the sleeves for a while. See, I am a slow knitter, and also a lazy one, which means I [...]

Curious About George?

Thursday, May 19th, 2011

This is George.

There will be more Georges to come in the future. Stay tuned.

Geek + Craft = Love

Sunday, May 8th, 2011

Doesn’t this seem like the best thing in the history of ever? Knits for Nerds: 30 Projects for Fans of Science Fiction, Fantasy, and Comic Books by Joan of Dark, a.k.a. Toni Carr. (I already have her book Knockdown Knits: 30 Projects from the Roller Derby Track, and the fact that there is an entire [...]

Golden

Sunday, February 28th, 2010

Sometimes — admittedly, not often, but sometimes — everything turns out just the way you hoped it would.
If you had asked me what I wanted to see in the men’s Olympic gold medal hockey game, I swear I would have said, “I want Canada to play the U.S., I want both teams to play very [...]

There Is a Shawl

Monday, December 28th, 2009

I only knit one Christmas present this year. It was a shawl.

The Fleece Artist Goldielocks Triangle Shawl, to be exact. You know, the one that I’ve been calling the Shawl of Doom. It’s 56% Kid Mohair, 24% Silk, 20% Nylon, and 100% infuriating. The colours go very well with my giant purple stuffed hedgehog, but [...]

Spooky

Saturday, October 31st, 2009

You may notice that the date of this post is a HORRIBLE LIE, since I am posting it well after Halloween. But these are the two pictures I meant to post on Halloween, and then I didn’t do it for some reason (i.e., laziness, forgetfulness). They are Halloween-themed, though, so please, let’s all just feed [...]

Meet the Itty Bitty Kitty Committee!

Thursday, May 28th, 2009

My mother recently adopted two kittens! There is a black one

and a white one,

and the word on the street is that they are both very rambunctious (I believe the word “evil” may have been used). Which is to be expected. We kittens are are a rambunctious lot. I have not yet met them, but plan [...]

Laziness Is an Art Form… Right?

Monday, April 27th, 2009

Believe it or not, it’s not because I’m too lazy to write that I haven’t been posting. It’s because I’ve been too lazy to crop and de-uglify my photos in Photoshop. I consider writing photoless posts, but then I think how stupid that is when I have so many relevant yarny photos on my hard [...]