TessKnits.com » machine knitting http://tessknits.com where smart knitters have more fun! Fri, 10 Sep 2010 04:45:15 +0000 en hourly 1 My Knitting Wish List for 2010 http://tessknits.com/3165/my-knitting-wish-list-for-2010 http://tessknits.com/3165/my-knitting-wish-list-for-2010#comments Thu, 18 Feb 2010 22:26:31 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=3165 magic ball and beginning of raglan sweaterHey, I finally put together a list for What I Want to Knit This Year!

Yeah, well, so what if it's mid-February?

This idea has been kind of nagging at me for a month or so — but what finally prompted me to get it down on paper was an incident last week, when Linda asked, "So what are you knitting for fun?" — after seeing what I was knitting on for work — and I had to say, "Nothing."  That, my friends, is a sad state of affairs, and one I thought I ought to rectify.  I've gotten started on it, as you can see to the right, although that item happens to be the very last one on the list.  You'll have to read ALL THE WAY THROUGH if you want to know what that noise is all about.

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]]> http://tessknits.com/3165/my-knitting-wish-list-for-2010/feed 0 ZOMG! http://tessknits.com/1311/zomg http://tessknits.com/1311/zomg#comments Sun, 28 Dec 2008 00:29:13 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=1311 The "Z" here refers to NEW ZEALAND!!  Yes, here I am on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Queenstown, New Zealand.

Ah, the magic of modern air travel.  Here is how bad it was getting back home in PDX just before we left.me and polar bear

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]]> http://tessknits.com/1311/zomg/feed 3 Let It Snow http://tessknits.com/1272/let-it-snow http://tessknits.com/1272/let-it-snow#comments Thu, 18 Dec 2008 01:04:35 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.com/?p=1272 Here is what it looks like from my office window and my backyard these days:

 

red tree in snowyard in snow

feet in snow

And here is the yoke to my top-down raglan sweater so far.

sweater yoke so far

With all this snow, and everything being cancelled, you might think I’d have gotten a bit more knitting done, wouldn’t you?

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]]> http://tessknits.com/1272/let-it-snow/feed 3 Now Them’s Some Mittens! http://tessknits.com/100/now-thems-some-mittens http://tessknits.com/100/now-thems-some-mittens#comments Wed, 12 Mar 2008 20:21:01 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.henchal.com/archives/100

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  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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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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]]> http://tessknits.com/99/more-knitting-for-the-bears/feed 0 The 5-year FO http://tessknits.com/97/the-5-year-fo http://tessknits.com/97/the-5-year-fo#comments Tue, 04 Mar 2008 19:49:00 +0000 TessM http://tessknits.henchal.com/archives/97 Hey, you can’t say I don’t have persistence.glace tank

This little gem has literally taken me something like 5 years to finish.

To be fair, there was more than the usual amount of knitting involved.  I did knit the entire thing once, and then reknit the top half; but then I got to cheating and for the third attempt I knit the main parts on a machine.

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