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Crochet Pokéball Postcard Pattern
My favourite local yarn store, Black Sheep at Orenco, got turned into a pokémon gym with the advent of Pokémon Go, and I was so pleased by this that I thought I’d make a pattern! Now, pokéball patterns are a dime a dozen, but what I wanted was something that would be easy to print…
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Yarn Subscription preview, August 2016 (Yarn of the Month and Jimmy Beans Beanie Bags)
Not pictured: Beanie bags came with the usual bag (olympic themed), t-pins, a packet of soak, and some coaster patterns that I’m excited about because crochet mandalas are still all the rage. YOTM came with swatch patterns and a copy of this pattern. It was printed with a printer clearly running low on ink, but…
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Yarn of the Month Club, July 2015
Hello my poor neglected maker blog, long time no see! It’s been a busy few months, in good ways, in bad ways, in sad ways. But I have been making things, and maybe I’ll eventually take pictures of my wedding dress and maybe I’ll eventually frog that section of the cardi that wasn’t right and…
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Pi day t-shirt (free silhouette cut file)
I designed this shirt for my sister as part of a belated pi day present: This was done using my Roboknife (also known as a Silhouette Portrait Craft Cutter, but that’s way too much of a mouthful to talk about my robotic knife. Well, okay, it’s more of a scalpel, but whatever.) and two colours…
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The continuing cardi story…
The cardipalooza cardi is still coming! It’s been a month and I’ve been knitting it while reading weird gardening texts: #gardeningproblems A photo posted by Terri Oda (@drterriko) on Mar 25, 2016 at 10:45pm PDT While enjoying my actual garden: Late afternoon knitting and tea time ☕ Glad to be done work before the sun…
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Mandala bunnies
I’ve been working diligently on my cardi and more diligently on security for a software release at work, but I did find time in March and April to make a few presents. This pair went to two awesome little girls: Their mom tells me there has been much singing of “Little rabbit foo foo” as…
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Strawberry gloves
My other goal for 2015 was to try some more stranded colourwork that wasn’t double-knitting. I had intended to do more simple stuff, but I fell in love with this pattern and you know how it goes from there. The pattern is Strawberry Fields by Jami Brynildson. It was one of the shop patterns offered…
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Japanese Knot Bag
I was browsing this thread about project bags, saw this design, and thought I should try it out. A quick search of the internet found me some basic instructions (this tutorial has particularly decent pictures and nice clear indications of where to sew), so I free-handed a pattern and gave it a shot. In the…
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A sweater for me (just started!)
One of my goals for 2015 was to knit an adult-sized sweater, but I cheated a bit and made one for my sister (who’s smaller than I and one of the smaller adults I know). So I revised my goal for 2016 and here’s the start of something cool, I hope: That’s the swatch for…
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Yarn of the Month Club, January 2015
January’s Yarn of the Month package has some serious variety in it! Raffia, cotton-linen gradient, and a single ply acrylic-wool super-saturated gradient. These were all super fun, but I was most taken with learning to block raffia. So flexible and shape-able when damp!
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Jimmy Beans Wool Beanie Bags, January 2016
January 2016’s Beanie Bag was all about yarn construction. I got the purple version, which was really quite nice! This month’s notion was a shawl pin from Knitter’s Pride (I was so glad mine arrived intact — apparently a few got broken in transit!), there was the usual little package of wool wash from soak,…
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Jimmy Beans Wool Beanie Bags, December 2015
December’s theme was “superwash” and it included 5 samples in worsted weight. This seemed like a perfect time for me to practice my colourwork, since “do a small fair isle project” is on my craft goal list for this year, and I need practice with colourwork. In addition to the yarns, there’s some pom-pom makers,…
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