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Provence Baby Cardigan, Part 2 – getting started, edge stitches, lace pattern

Mar 22

Posted by TessM in It's All About the Blog, PL: Provence Baby Cardigan, Playing Lessons | 5 Comments

Table of contents for Provence Baby Cardigan

  1. Provence Baby Cardigan, Part 1 – pattern, yarn substitution, design tweaks, size, gauge
  2. Provence Baby Cardigan, Part 2 – getting started, edge stitches, lace pattern
  3. Provence Baby Cardigan, Part 3 – a discussion of armholes
  4. Provence Baby Cardigan, Part 4 – sleeves, math, knitting up stitches, tracking progress
  5. Provence Baby Cardigan, Part 5 – finishing

OK, so time to start knitting!

Since I'm going to knit the body in one piece, first thing is to add up the number of sts for the back and both fronts.  The second size says, 60 sts for the back and 28 apiece for the fronts.  Adding those up in my head, plus two edge sts, gives me 120 total.

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Gus is Ready for Sunday!

Feb 3

Posted by TessM in But Is It Art?, Knit Funny | 4 Comments

So my sister — who, as you may know, is primarily responsible for starting my knitting career — lives in Chicago — where, as you may also know, they got completely socked in by snow yesterday.

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HI! didja miss me?

Aug 16

Posted by TessM in Classes, It's All About Me, Not Knitting | 4 Comments

Wowsers, it's been an eventful couple of months at my house.  At my NEW house, of course — where I'd say we are about 2/3 unpacked by now.

I'm estimating it will take until December to get the rest unpacked and put away, donated, recycled, or thrown away.  Way back in the beginning, I said this was going to be a year-long project.  We first went out househunting with the realtor on December 29th, so at this point I'm still sticking with my original estimate.  (Although I keep hearing from people about how they have boxes still to unpack from moves that were three years ago.)

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Holy Lolcats!

Jun 15

Posted by TessM in It's All About Me, Not Knitting | 2 Comments

OK, OK — in between freaking out about carpet, flooring, paint, and drywall demolition, I sneaked off for a little fun.

June 3 was the second annual "I Can Has Cheezburger" night at the Mariner's ball game in Seattle.  And I was there.  Oh, yes.  And so was the New York Times, who decided to not only publish my (thankfully unidentified) picture right smack at the beginning, but also quote me.

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You Guys Rock!

Apr 7

Posted by TessM in It's All About Me, Not Knitting | No Comments

Last week, I wrote about some great things I am fortunate to have in my life:  DH, yarn, a specific cat.

This week, I have even more great things to write about:  specifically, Ben and Jerry's "Cake Batter" ice cream some really fabulous, generous knitters and blog readers, not to mention family and friends!  My heartfelt thanks to all of you — some of whom I have never even met!  You all blew right through the $121 fundraising goal:  now the Cat Adoption Team has almost $200 OVER $200! to help with the food bank, or finding homes for homeless felines.

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Shameless Birthday Ploy

Mar 31

Posted by TessM in Not Knitting | 2 Comments

Yes, both of you already know my ffffoooo…  ffooorrrr…  my birthday is this week.  (Turns out it’s a bigger mental milestone than I thought it would be, actually.)

Thankfully, I already have a lot of great things in my life.  My DH is first and foremost — then there’s a hutch full of yarn, and my beloved Morgan kitteh.morgan

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Beginnings

Mar 27

Posted by TrishC in Books, Sites, Mags, Guest Writers | No Comments

trishinhatA shameless Allman Brothers reference, and another guest post by the fabulous TrishC!

(Unsurprisingly, though, I couldn’t help throwing in a couple of editorial comments along the way.  TH)

Tess and I were chatting one day about how we got started knitting, and we discovered some strange coincidences.

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Now Them’s Some Mittens!

Mar 12

Posted by TessM in Events | No Comments

Table of contents for Knit for the Bears!

  1. Let’s Knit for the Bears!
  2. More Knitting for the Bears
  3. Now Them’s Some Mittens!
  4. Mo’ Mittens
  5. Harlots and Mittens and Bears, Oh My!

I’m pleased to announce that my first "cheater" bear mitten is completed!!sm_mittwithcokecan

These things are BIG.  I happened to have my once-a-day can of Coke with me, so I included it in the picture for scale.

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More Knitting for the Bears

Mar 9

Posted by TessM in Events | No Comments

Table of contents for Knit for the Bears!

  1. Let’s Knit for the Bears!
  2. More Knitting for the Bears
  3. Now Them’s Some Mittens!
  4. Mo’ Mittens
  5. Harlots and Mittens and Bears, Oh My!

It’s Saturday night of our designated "Fun Day", and DH is out at a buddy’s house watching college tournament hockey, drinking beer and eating crap.

What am I doing?  I’m turning my studio into a bear mitten factory.

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Latest & Greatest

Feb 19

Posted by TessM in FO Files, It's All About Me, Sox Therapy | 2 Comments

Admittedly, I haven’t written much in the past week (heck, I haven’t written anything).  But, I have an excellent excuse reason.  Actually, several reasons…

#1 reason is, I have a bad Continental knitting habit of using my right index finger to help out on each and every stitch.  I don’t actually need to use it — I can knit and purl without moving it at all, if I think about it.  As I say, it’s a bad habit, which means I do it more-or-less unconsciously.  I even demonstrate it to new Continental knitters in my classes as a great example of what not to do.

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Updates

Jan 30

Posted by TessM in It's All About the Blog, Not Knitting, Sox Therapy | 1 Comment

OK, it’s high time I wrote something new & exciting.  Hmmm…!

First, let me tell you that the site has gotten just a teensy bit better, with the addition of two new pages:  look up at the top, on the navigation bar, and you’ll see "Site Map" as well as "Knit Links".

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Final FO’s of 2007

Jan 3

Posted by TessM in FO Files | 1 Comment

Well, I said I was working on my pile of UFO’s.  Two more are completed, hooray!    I swear to you I got them done by Dec 31, even if I haven’t managed to blog about them until Jan 3.  Blogging does NOT COUNT as part of finishing.

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FO’s from Knitter’s Stash

Dec 18

Posted by TessM in Books, Sites, Mags, FO Files | 1 Comment

OK, here’s the ONE Xmas present I knitted this year - but it is darned cute. It’s a double-knitted teddy bear from the book “Knitter’s Stash”. The book’s been around a while, but I don't actually own it (the library does, though!) so this is only the second thing I’ve knit out of it.teddybear

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