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...and somewhere, there are pictures of what I've made. It's not been that much, but I have polished up two Pantas, a mult-directional scarf, about 15% of a Nantasket Basket (see below), and maybe something else that I've forgotten about. I started the cabled gauntlets from Interweave Knits (Fall 2004, I think), but decided they were shoddy, ripped them out, and started again. Comparison pictures will come later.

Via Diagonal has hit a conceptual problem, because I ran out of the green and I'm too stubborn to buy more. My first attempt to make the last two inches and a bottom using just the purple was a no-go. The fabric relies on the slip stitch pattern for its consistency. So, I've got to come up with something else (probably another slip-stich pattern) to fill out the bottom of the bag.

Oh yeah, somewhere in there was a totally gigantic entrelac scarf, which I don't think I ever got post-blocking pictures of, and thus never made an entry. Anyway, all of that is all well and good, but this is really what compelled me to post:

From Married to the Sea.

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We recently returned from a trip to the Midwest to visit family and friends, including the wedding of one of my close friends from high school. Remember the felted basket question?
Well, the time was upon us, and true to form, I had procrastinated down to the wire. Thankfully, when a crisis hits here at 2KTOG, there are two knitters to take care of it. This was taken in the wee hours of the wedding day itself. Omar had just finished attaching the handles and the i-cord edge, I was passed out on my parents couch clutching my aching hands after having knit most of the thing that night on a sort of uncooperative Denise needle.

I decided agianst the slip-stitch version because I hadn't packed my spare skein of the MC (cream) and I was worried about running out.

We delivered the basket at the rehersal breakfast the day of the wedding. Here you can see Old Towne Greenwood, one of those little shops in the background is a lovely yarn shop, Bo Peep. We had a nice chat with the owner a few days before. I love the blue sky and flag in the picture, it's so good to be a felted knit in America.

Here is the basket with the lovely flowergirl, the daughter of another high school friend.

Here it is with the red and deep red rose petals sitting at our table, which was positioned near the smarmy DJ and dancefloor.

Here is Omar and I before we arrived at the ceremony, which we almost missed. Oops. Can you tell we had knitting hangovers?

It was a lovely wedding, my friend looked beautiful and walked down the aisle with her precious 4 year old daughter. She is a chef, and she made many flavors of cheesecake and her boss made a ton of chocolate to go on every table.

Next up, continuing in reverse chronological order, I revisit the flubbed attempts at needle arts from my youth, get a lesson from my grandma, and discover some beautiful fiber art by women who died before I was born.

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Am I the only person who is totally grossed out by Austermann Step, the sock yarn with aloe vera and jojoba oil? If not, why am I just hearing about it? I understand wool has natural lanolin, but...ewww.
There's really nothing more to it than that.

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I am done with my sockapaloooza socks! I am a bit late, but I hope my sock pal will forgive me. This is my first real design. I mean, I've "freehanded" plenty of stuff, but I haven't ever actually had to follow my own directions. :) She gave me a lot of freedom and I really took advantage of it.
I dubbed these socks Bobble Bing! after Omar and I spent awhile debating various machinations of every pun possible :)
Thank you to my lovely foot model, Ms. Bestitched! We know these Born-and-Fluevog loving tootsies are used to high fashion! As Nick kept saying on Project Runway, my models are my muses!

A close up of the bobbles, picot, and slip-stitch cuff:

These will be washed tonight, dry overnight, and go out in the post tomorrow!

I will be publishing the pattern on the blog soon. Right now I have a bunch of jumbly notes, and it's going to take some serious alchemy to turn it into pattern gold.

But that's not all! My sock pal, unlike me, was very timely. I received my socks on Thursday. I like the colors and they fit nicely. Thank you, Elsbeth!

I'm working on some wee little baby socks to detox from the pressure of Sockapaloooza. Then it's back to the grind, I've got a lot of knitting deadlines coming up. I need my Knitpicks order to arrive so I can start working on the felted basket for my friend's wedding.

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