Category: gift
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Hello Kitty Amigurumi (“Bring me the head of Hello Kitty!”)
Hello Kitty Crochet is a book I have coveted since I knew it existed, in part due to nostalgia as I remember getting little cute Japanese things on occasion as a kid, but also because it just looked like a fantastic set of amigurumi crochet patterns with lots of details and cute photos. Hello Kitty…
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Blue starry math pony (using @valleyviolet’s pattern!)
Ever since I saw Valleyviolet’s Pony Pattern collections, I’ve wanted to make one. I finally bought the collection in order to make the Pink Fluffy Unicorn mascot for Quelab (who is apparently MIA right now, likely stolen by the same person who vandalized the room sign; much sadness. She was a lot of work!), but…
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Three generations of women, one hat
Here’s a project that’s been sitting in my queue of things-to-post for a while! This is a hat I made for my grandmother. It was a post-Christmas present, a project that I brought up so I’d have something to do over the holidays. Pattern The pattern is the Cup of Tea Cabled Touque by Jessica…
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Butterfly Baby Sweater (simplified top-down one piece cardigan for self-striping sock yarn)
Remember my post about pictures of knitting in sunlight? I think it’s about time I post a few finished photos to go with that, isn’t it? The project was a baby sweater, again for baby V, who probably qualifies as a toddler now that she’s, well, toddling! My pattern is based off Eyelet Baby Cardigan…
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Sheep Hat
Another baby gift! This one I made just because I thought the pattern was adorable: My picture isn’t great, but… 1. Little sheep feet in the grass! 2. Adorable sheepy texture! 3. 3-D sheep head! 4. Perky sheep ears! And my favourite: 5. Puffy little tail! Pattern This one came from a book called 60…
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“Best” baby sock?
This is a baby gift that got photographed and then I forgot to blog about it once the gift was received. Unfortunately, I’ve also forgotten the pattern! I think it was called “best baby sock” and touted how it was the one that would stay on the most determined of babies. I don’t suppose that…
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Pi Baby Sweater
A couple of the lovely friends I met through Mathsoc announced they were expecting a child, and I knew immediately what I wanted to send to the shower. Since math nerd baby clothes aren’t exactly the sort of thing one picks up at toys-r-us, I spent a lot of time at PyCon knitting up a…
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Pictures of knitting in sunlight (a work in progress)
I don’t tend to share work-in-progress shots for a few reasons: 1. I knit a lot on the go, where it’s not too convenient to take pictures. 2. I am really really bad at processing all my photos, and more of them just adds to the laod. 3. I just don’t think of it. But…
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Baby bunny! (Amigurumi)
It’s after Christmas, so you’d think by now I’d be digging out the photos of all the projects that became christmas presents. But no, I’m going to dig back a little further to one I forgot from this summer… This little amigurumi bunny was just so charming that I decided to make her for baby…
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Warthog9’s blue gloves
John and I have been playing an augmented reality game called Ingress for some time. The reason this is relevant to this post is twofold: 1. We spend a lot of time walking around outside in the cold using our smart phones 2. We’re on the blue team. I have some lovely purple gloves I…
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Little Fox Tail
When my friend K announced that he and his wife were expecting their first child, I threatened to make an inordinate number of animal hats for the kid. The first of these turned out to be a Failynn Fox Cowl, which while adorable, is also much too big for a newborn no matter what the…
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A passel of penguins
Last year at Pycon, I made a bunch of teensy amigurumi penguins to give to the friends who were sprinting on GNU Mailman with me. (Small round penguin ball pattern here) Florian commented some time later that he nearly didn’t get to keep his, as his wife is a huge fan of penguins, so since…