Posts Tagged ‘grrlfriend bag’

Played more with the ball winder today as I came across some of my ancient stash of acrylics that were partially used.
Found them while looking for the cotton dishcloth yarn for redoing the Sunflower Hotpad. Did it in 2004 from a booklet but neglected to notice that it called for doubling the yarn.
Couldn’t figure out [...]

Even though I had two pieces of knitting in the car, I didn’t do any knitting at all on the camping trip. Never got any true “recreation” time but that’s another story and it was still a good trip.
Though I was exhausted when we got back between 7 & 8pm Monday night, I got the [...]

Focused on plowing through the Icy Moon cowl as you must crochet the body first before any of the beaded edging.
Didn’t really work on anything else because I was also trying to get preparations done for the camping trip to Pinnacles.
 
Bound off on the body late Thursday night and set it aside.
I also worked on [...]

The Adara yarn from Elann came yesterday which means I could finally start the Ravelympics Grrlfriend Bag projects.
I casted on and got through the fiddly part. Perhaps it’s just me but Laura talks about it in the pattern itself too. It’s VERY hard to keep the DPNS (double pointed needles) from falling out after you’ve [...]

First off, to explain Ravelympics, you need to know that Ravelry is a fantastic community site for knitters and crocheters providing not only community boards for discussing our projects on but also a huge database of yarns and patterns for inspiration.
Ravelympics is an community wide event where people are making projects within the timeframe of [...]