Archive for the 'Knitted Things' Category

Aren’t We Lucky?

I had a few great testers help check the pattern for Lucky, and I can’t thank them enough! Two of them shared photos of their finished trees. Let’s take a look.

Tezzcan’s Lucky seems to embody more than one kind of luck: her little birds seem to have made a love connection.

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I love the pretty colors that Oiyi used for her Lucky.

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(According to her blog, she used Caron Simply Soft.)

She also had her adorable dog Caesar model Lucky.

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Caesar probably had no idea what was up with this strange little toy…

Thank you again to Oiyi and Tezzcan!!

Blue and Yellow

I love these two colors together.

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It’s something new I’m working on, something that is made up of a lot of different pieces. Anyone want to venture a guess? I’ll let you know if you’re right, but I might not be posting the finished piece for a little while…

Knitted Knitting Group

My friend Audrey (the one who designs jewelry) sent me an interesting photo that seems a perfect followup to the creepy polyfil bag.

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The photo is from a 1988 issue of National Geographic, from an feature titled “Wool: Fabric of History.” (I cropped out a flash reflection, but there was also a knitted tea set in the photo.)

Here is the caption that Audrey also passed along:

The cat’s alive, but the rest of Noeline Black’s friends are stuffed. Created by Black and other members of the Fabric Art Company in Wellington, New Zeland, they reflect the humor and ironies of domestic life. Taking yarn from her own leg, the woman at her far right is unraveling herself to make the baby she has always wanted.

It seems as though the Fabric Art Company no longer exists (at least not to the internet), but there are a couple of photos from a 1983 gallery installation they did on the Art New Zealand website.

Thanks Audrey!

Resisty the Resistor

For the past year or so, every time I hit John up for a knitted toy idea, I’ve gotten the same enthusiastic answer:

“How about Resisty the Resistor!”

If you’re not electronically inclined, a resistor is something that regulates current in a circuit board, or at least that’s my basic understanding. What else could I expect from the author of Geek Out New York?

So, partly because I was looking for a small project to whip up yesterday, and partly because today is our second wedding anniversary, I finally broke down and made little Resisty.

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Right now he’s on the hunt for a circuit board and maybe a few friends!

Update: Thank you to Michelle at the Craft blog for featuring little Resisty!

Snails vs. Slugs: The Eating Contest

For their third and final competition, the snails and slugs are battling it out in a gastronomical challenge of epic proportions. Whoever can devour their leaves first will be the superior species!

However, a third party seems to have disrupted an otherwise fair fight…

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The slugs may not have won this round, but one snail in particular has most certainly lost.

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I think that leaves us with no clear winner in Snails vs. Slugs, but a very happy bird instead.

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No matter, though—the others are still blithely munching away.

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And thus concludes our pointless competition.

If you missed the first two rounds, you can see them here and here, and you can also knit some snails and slugs for yourself with this free pattern.

Update: Thank you to Plush You and Softies Central for featuring the Eating Contest!

Finished Loopers

Since I released the Looper pattern at Loops a couple of weeks ago, there are now a few completed Loopers roaming the earth!

Svendel came all the way from Arkansas to attend last Saturday’s class at Loops, and she finished her little guy in no time! I could tell that she would, since she knits faster than I do.

Her Looper is king of the laptop!

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It’s awesome to see someone finish the project we started in the class.

Pattern tester extraordinaire Miki wasn’t in the class, but she was sweet enough to give the pattern a try while it was still in the works. She recently wrote about her Looper on her blog, with the cutest photos.

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I was happy to see that Miki also entered her pics in the Mochimochi Photo Contest!

Miki details her full experience with the pattern in her blog post, which I really appreciate. Thank you, Miki!

Grass in Stop Motion

Annie, an avid knitter of Grass, recently sent me a video that she and her friend made about a grassy adventure in the front yard.

Annie says they “failed” at the stop motion, but I think they did a fine job, and the video is hilarious. (I especially love the smoking scenes!)

Maybe next year’s photo contest will have to include a category for video…

Dusty Bunnies

It recently occurred to me that it might be time to do some dusting…

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A new pattern coming very soon!