My completion project is going pretty well – almost done with a pair of socks started in September, and I bought some of the zips I needed to finish a two other projects.
Here is something I completed today – a necklace featuring a crochet flower I made, along with some glass and wooden beads:
Other creations of note – a delicious fruit cake:
Location:Vancouver
Maybe I’m taking a slight risk putting this out there but I think he’s pretty distracted by his new baby so probably won’t be checking my blog…
Can I just say how much I enjoyed making this? It looks very simple (and is if you know what you are doing) but involves some short row shaping, as you might use on socks or more cunningly tailored garments. And if you need to be a bandit or just keep your face warm you can pull it up over your nose, cowboy style 
I’m so happy this poppy pin I crocheted is winging its way to England to Hilary from Lemon Loves.
She says she has a lovely grey coat to wear it on, I’m hoping for a photo!
I got something lovely in exchange:
Perfect!I’ve finished one sleeve of my lovely lacy Niobe sweater…then I put it aside for a bit to try to finish a pair of lace socks I’m working on on itty bitty needles. After a few rounds of things really not adding up, I realised I’d mis-remembered the pattern and was basically screwing it up. Ripping out an inch of fiddly lace on tiny needles is somehow more heartbreaking than on a big sweater…maybe it’s just me.
Anyhow I decided to take a detour inspired by some brightly coloured and not-so-expensive yarn I came across at Michael’s. I’d forgotten how fast knitting can be on giant needles with yarn as thick as a pencil! I’m loving the results.
I threw together this chunky scarf, which will be a gift!
I also quickly ran up a blue one for my son who said he liked it.
Now on a chunky roll, I grabbed some violet wool I’d had my eye on for a while which was very inexpensive and on special offer:
And cast on to create one of these for myself
My first attempt at knitting in one piece from the top down. Don’t worry, I’ll get back to those fiddly lace socks and lovely fluffy Niobe sweater. But for now I’m really enjoying the instant gratification of chunky projects I can finish in a few hours!
I invented an exotic new stitch, one that was special and for use just on this project. It’s called knit through front loop. Most of you would just call it “knit”.
This was the first day of a visit that involved a fair bit of Shiva Nata, a practice where you wave your arms around your head in increasingly complicated patterns until your brain becomes truly scrambled. It looks something like this:
Calling this a surreal experience would be an understatement. Strange things happened, seemingly irrelevant activities provoked major insights and any attempt to do what you thought you were there for proved futile – although everyone came away having achieved way more than they thought possible. The magic of elastic time, shmurfling, weird costumes and interviewing monsters all played a part, but the Shiva Nata had the most powerful effect on me. After one session I lost the ability to write. I’m not kidding.
