23 February 2008

Add this to my Snow Day Knitting List...


Chunky Cabled Hat
Originally uploaded by anicebag
The "Unoriginal Hat" by Stephanie Pearl-McPhee.
In my determination to try cables, I found about a skein and a half of Debbie Bliss Soho left over in my stash, and used it to make this hat. I started and finished the whole thing last night, after finishing the String bag and attaching the Doctor's Bag handles.

22 February 2008

Snow Day: Part II

The Snow Day also allowed me to knit a whole bag: the
Saturday Market Bag by Jodie Danenberg. I came across the pattern and some modifications on Ravelry. So using only a ball and a half of Lily Sugar 'n Cream cotton yarn, I produced the following today:

Stuffed Full of Yarn:

Unstretched:

It was a productive day in knitting-land!

Snow Day! Part I

I was awoken at 5:19am and again at 5:50am to find out that both Rider, and Eden were closed today due to "inclement weather." Here's the inclement weather:


Not really that bad. But plows are apparently not real big in NJ. Regardless, I enjoyed having the day off... The mail came with my bag handles for the Doctor's Bag, so I sewed those in. I still need to find some sort of support for the bottom of the bag, but none of our cardboard boxes are long enough for this bag. Anyway, here it is. It is huge:

17 February 2008

Anthropologie-inspired capelet/shrug

Finished the capelet this morning! This was a nice quick distraction from the Rowena Cardigan which will clearly take longer to finish.